Chris DeVille
@chrisdeville.bsky.social
Managing Editor, @stereogum.com Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgreatheights.bsky.social Buy my debut book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, out now via St. Martin's Press: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/such-great-heights-9781250363381/
If you thought Sam and Louise Sullivan's music was charming, just wait until you read them in conversation. Talked to the siblings behind LOVE & DEVOTION, an album so cool, so retro, so "wonky" that I can't believe it's not a Light In The Attic reissue:
The World's Now Listening, But Sam And Louise Sullivan Were Going To Keep Making Awesome Records Either Way
An interview with the Philly-based siblings about their charming, "wonky" new album 'Love & Devotion' and much more.
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the metal injection and metal sucks and revolver and brooklyn vegan and alt press and such layoffs following acquisition by music industry entities specifically <<<<
America has finally been catching on to Ireland’s @cmatbaby.bsky.social, whose ‘Euro-Country’ earned widespread acclaim for its distinctively European take on modern country music. I made her school me in the Irish and English cultural references woven throughout the album.
This is some bullshit right here. Brooklyn Vegan has done incredible work for a mind-bogglingly long time. It's never enough for the freaks who own the companies.
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
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Quick PSA, but that Slint documentary by Lance Bangs is on youtube in full: youtu.be/GsRpS6XGiOs?...
Breadcrumb Trail [FULL DOCUMENTARY] (2014)
YouTube video by Killer Potato
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That's how you do a lead single folks
The Drin Announce New Album I Lost My Way For Centuries: Hear “Haven’t Lived It Yet”
Of the many great underground rock bands currently populating Cincinnati, the Drin may be the toughest to pin down. The group came on our radar playing a fried, bleary, extremely confident hybrid of t...
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this is kind of driving me nuts because an "era" is basically a rebranded "album cycle" and, I dunno, half of all major musicians since the late 60s have reinvented their image/style to varying degrees from release to release and created "lore" for fans to decode? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Forget Albums—Pop Stars Measure Their Careers in Eras Now
Since the earthshaking success of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, artists from the Weeknd to Ariana Grande have tried to imbue their live shows with a sense of history.
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I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
No one likes AI more than musicians with bad goatees and comically large hats. On the @stereogum.com homepage right now:
One of my strongest-held opinions is that the “track listing” section should be higher on the Wikipedia page for an album.
Had no choice but to bring up Tom Herman's pee color chart in my blurb about the new Coco & Clair Clair stereogum.com/2506876/the-...
Loved this column from Brad about AI in metal and Fear Factory's extremely prescient '90s run
Man's Not Obsolete: Fear Factory At The Dawn Of The AI Resistance
A look at the prophetic 'Obsolete' and metal's current anti-AI movement. Plus: the best metal tracks of the month.
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Good on Middlesbrough for recognizing that MLS players are EXTREMELY undervalued on the world market.
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · 5d ago🇺🇸🔴 BREAKING: Middlesbrough is finalizing a deal to sign USMNT wingback Max Arfsten from the Columbus Crew, per sources - Fee up to $7.5m (incl. add-ons) - Crew retain significant sell-on % - Arfsten expected to travel to complete move in coming days/week www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...
monitoring the situation in ann arbor, where they hired a good football coach who may not understand the job www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-f...
I have no idea which song will win our Song Of The Summer poll this year (guessing it won't be the objective SOTS "Choosin' Texas") and I'm excited for you to help me discover the answer by casting your vote
Vote For The Song Of The Summer 2026
We’re nearing the end of July and rapidly approaching the dog days of August, which means by now you should have some music attached to your memories of this season. It also means the time has come to...
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This statement by UEFA on FIFA attempting to sell off the World Cup gave me goosebumps, what a statement - the beautiful game deserves no less “As so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.”
Is This It was first released 25 years ago today. (The Australians got it months before the rest of us.) It's a deeply important album to me, and I will be annoying about it forever. Here's what I wrote about it five years ago when it turned 20:
Is This It Turns 20
My hair has rarely been longer than it was on my Ohio University student ID. I’m not sure it ever reached proper mullet length, if only because it mainly grew outward. Reasoning that the Strokes all l...
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If you need a reason to get a @stereogum.com subscription (which I would argue is one of the most worthwhile subscriptions on the entire Internet), yesterday's Alternative Number Ones column by @tombreihan.bsky.social is one of the best he's ever written.
@tombreihan.bsky.social · last wk.Alternative Number Ones on "Semi-Charmed Life," a song that I have hated for most of my life and that, I must now grudgingly concede, slaps.
Read this column to see which track Ted called "a melting popsicle for headphones"
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Overmono told us about going out of their minds to make their fantastic new album 'Pure Devotion.' Read the interview, and check out the best new electronic tracks of the month, in our latest Crossing Wires column:
I got interviewed for my local paper. (Yes, that's a Schopenhauer T-shirt.) bigforkeagle.com/news/2026/ju...
Does avant garde music have a place in the West? Bigfork's Philip Freeman thinks so
Since moving to Bigfork from New Jersey in 2023, Freeman has established the lone outpost in the West for the genre-bending music that pushes the boundaries of conventional sounds.
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I think Poch is a good coach, but under him we lost a tournament we'd won 3x under Berhalter (Nations League), played like minnows in the Gold Cup final, and suffered our worst World Cup lost in at least 20 years – arguably 36. And did so at home vs. a team we could've beaten on a good day.
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · last wk.🇺🇸 Sources: Mauricio Pochettino is close to continuing as USMNT head coach. Andres Cantor 1st. Would be 4 year deal Talks with U.S. Soccer progress and in a good place. Not done yet w/ @paultenorio.bsky.social @henrybushnell.bsky.social @david-ornstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/745...
not only is he right about this, he wrote a book in which he's right about a whole bunch of stuff
Such Great Heights
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and...
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Chris DeVille@chrisdeville.bsky.social · last wk.The zoomer belief that The New Abnormal is the best Strokes album is even more egregious than the young millennial belief that In Rainbows is the best Radiohead album
The zoomer belief that The New Abnormal is the best Strokes album is even more egregious than the young millennial belief that In Rainbows is the best Radiohead album
Wrote about the anti-algorithmic appeal of Mallory Hawk's CHINOOK, an album full of great songs in wildly different styles
Album Of The Week: Mallory Hawk 'Chinook'
Who needs a style when you’ve got the songs? We’re living in a musical landscape mediated by algorithmic overlords, in which listeners often seek to be soothed by (possibly evil) ambient tones, burro...
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