Chris DeVille

Paris-based Kate Stables has been blessing us with folk-tinged indie rock albums as This Is The Kit for many years now, and she’s about to do it again. Ghost Coat, the band’s new LP, is set for release in January. Recorded at the famed Rockfield Studios in rural Wales, site of classic recordings by the…

Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist for the punk band New Found Glory, has died. “On the morning of September 20th, Chad Everett Gilbert passed away peacefully in his sleep,” the band announced in a statement today. “He left this world surrounded by friends and family and took his final breaths with his wife and mother by…

Everyone loves Ratboys, including their esteemed indie rock peers. The tuneful, big-hearted Chicago quartet continued their streak of amazing albums with this year’s Singin’ To An Empty Chair, an album that backs some of Julia Steiner’s most vulnerable lyrics yet with dynamic arrangements that suggest a band in full command of its powers. A new…

About a year ago, North Carolina electro-folk duo Sylvan Esso took a righteous risk, removing their catalog from Spotify in protest of founder Daniel Ek’s investment in the military defense contractor Helsing. “While no solution is perfect, we simply can’t continue to put our life’s work in a store that, in addition to all its…

Between Paramore, her solo career, the new side project Power Snatch, and a litany of guest features, Hayley Williams has been involved with a lot of great music over the years. That incredible streak of output continues today with an appearance on Beabadoobee’s newly released Pylon. But of all those Williams tunes, the best-known is…

Duncan Sheik has died. The New Jersey-born singer-songwriter, best known for the pop-rock hit “Barely Breathing” and the musical Spring Awakening, passed away last night in a hospital in Manhattan. His mother, Suzanne Sheik, told the New York Times the cause of death was cardiac arrest. “Duncan was a father, husband, son, brother, and friend,”…

When I was talking to Bill Callahan early this year, he slipped me a little scoop: The veteran indie singer-songwriter had recorded a collaboration with Meshell Ndegeocello. Here’s the backstory he provided: I met her at a festival a long time ago, and it was very cute. She was sleeping in a tent or something,…

Over the summer, the National frontman Matt Berninger released the magnificently titled new solo track “Martini Me Fatso.” Though arriving in the long tail of last year’s excellent Get Sunk, it seemed to exist outside of the frame of the album cycle, and now we know it was part of a new EP that seems…

Σtella!!!! The Greek indie/pop artist Σtella returned this week with a new single for Sub Pop, co-produced by the tasteful and well-traveled Rodaidh McDonald. “Belinda” is a beautiful piece of work, carefully crafted but heartfelt, with lots of smart production choices to accentuate the music’s power. Rafael Cohen of !!!, who worked on Σtella’s 2025…

Back in April, the Oakland alt-country band Mildred released their new album Fenceline. If you’re into the booming cottage industry that is post-Pavement/Silver Jews 2020s slacker twang, you’ll want to hear it. Mildred play with an easygoing looseness, even as lightweight melancholia hangs over everything, and their rotation of four singer-songwriters drawls with a tender…