Chris DeVille

My debut book is OUT TODAY! 'Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion' is about how indie rock changed the mainstream and the mainstream changed indie rock in the 21st century. Buy it and let me know what you think: read.macmillan.com/lp/such-great-…

I wrote this profile of Kei Kamara 10 years ago. I think it's the only time an MLS player has been profiled for @rollingstone? Barring maybe some Messi or Beckham feature I haven't seen? rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

‘Middle Of Nowhere’ feels like a homecoming, but not necessarily in the expected sense. Rather than boxing Kacey Musgraves into strict genre parameters, the new album reminds us how many ways she can thrive when inspiration strikes. It reclaims her place as one of the most accomplished artists on the pop-country divide. There’s more stylistic variety than the countrified branding suggests, and those shades cohere more naturally than some of the twists on 2021’s ‘star-crossed.’ It’s an album where the country-western story-song “Back On The Wagon” and the Fleetwood Mac pastiche “Rhinestoned” both make sense — full of savvy flourishes, from the shift into waltz time on the title track’s chorus to the spoken “That’s the thing/ She’s really gone!” threaded into the spiraling climax of “Abilene.” Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, Musgraves’ main collaborators since ‘Golden Hour’ — Stereogum’s #1 album of 2018 — return, alongside early collaborator Luke Laird. A parade of veteran pedal steel maestros appears, alongside ‘Golden Hour’ contributors like Todd Lombardo and Shawn Everett and “Espresso” co-writer Steph Jones. Guests include Willie Nelson, Billy Strings, and Miranda Lambert, with whom Musgraves finds common ground on the campy, mariachi-infused duet “Horses & Divorces.” ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ is Musgraves’ liveliest, catchiest, smartest, funniest batch of tunes in years. [📝: @chrisdeville, 📷: Kelly Christine Sutton]

If at first you don’t succeed… try again 🤪

Dirty from Max. Undeniable from Habroune 😮‍💨🔥

The best Kacey LP since Golden Hour is also her twangiest since Pageant Material, but it's less a wholesale return to country than an integration of everything she's done well over the years. She sounds like herself again. My review: stereogum.com/2497402/premat…

It was truly my privilege to live through this

Something that makes talking about songwriting on here hard is that many people think the quality of a song comes entirely down to the lyrics, when in fact the lyrics are the least important part.

Martin Luther, 1517:

Art is arguably the thing that makes us human, and I just think you should try to experience as much of it as possible

I wouldn't want to live in Lip Critic's headspace all the time, but Theft World is so potent because so many people do. It's a manic genre-spliced portrait of a culture run by scammers all the way down. stereogum.com/2497108/album-…

i know it’s a played-out talking point by now but seriously can you imagine any other administration posting like this. even if you believe “it’s trolling” do you really think the official white house account should be spending its time trolling everyone by calling trump a king

The republican pitch to voters in an election year dominated by the crushing costs of living in this country should be the urgent need for a new marble and gold ballroom for members of the American ruling class to have safer banquets

Glad to see that's all resolved

When @soundtrackcast asked me which soundtrack I'd like to discuss on their podcast, I knew it had to be Drive. Excited to share our conversation about it today.

Excited to be on @DCRockPod today discussing the Dismemberment Plan's EMERGENCY & I, an album that (obviously) means the world to me dcrockpod.podbean.com/e/the-dismembe…

"The Cleveland Browns are crushing this draft" @MoveTheSticks 👀

Browns are crushing this draft.

@anniezaleski I’m one of you, I understand

@chrisdeville Look, we take what small joys we can get

Browns fans around me at the bar rejoicing because they can’t draft Ty Simpson now