Chris DeVille

These F&#%ing Guys The latest B-side from Such Great Heights looks at Alex Warren, Benson Boone, and the power of negative polarization

The new B-side from my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS is about Alex Warren, Benson Boone, and the power of negative polarization (with bonus cameos from the Radiohead bear logo and @titus-andronicus.bsky.social on @lifeoftherecord.bsky.social)

I've heard this album and I must say they're showing all these little emelets how it's done

The very same day a Trump official announced he wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.

Columbus Writer Chris DeVille Explores Indie Rock in Debut Book 'Such Great Heights' The locally based music journalist and Stereogum managing editor's debut book tackles indie music's complex history.

Grateful to Columbus Monthly for featuring my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS and my Columbus launch event w/ @harvilla.bsky.social Aug. 27 at Used Kids Records

I am, unfortunately, one of these eight members.

Lore drop: The day this photo was taken I got my hair cut and a girl outside the barbershop had on the same Lenderman T-shirt 😭

Columbus Writer Chris DeVille Explores Indie Rock in Debut Book 'Such Great Heights' The locally based music journalist and Stereogum managing editor's debut book tackles indie music's complex history.

Grateful to Columbus Monthly for featuring my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS and my Columbus launch event w/ @harvilla.bsky.social Aug. 27 at Used Kids Records

It's obscene and misleading to suggest @jonpareles.bsky.social reviews are mere y/n summaries that do not provide enough "information and context"

Job losses only become culture war fodder if the job is in some way 'conservative coded' ("miners," "farmers," police etc.) All other mass layoffs get treated as neutral, anodyne, basically natural phenomena

Fear not @conorsen.bsky.social, the children will fill their minds with Chris DeVille's SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion out Aug. 26 via @stmartinspress.bsky.social

All my children will be educated by the Joe Rogan podcast and weightlifting forums and anyone who opposes it will be left behind in the sands of time

a brain smoothed out and polished into a mirror-like surface

Hey, I have a favor to ask. I never used my IG account until recently, so I don't have much of a following there. But I am trying to use it more. If you follow me here, could you follow me there too? I'm at @chrisdevilleofficial — mostly book promo now, but I will put other stuff there eventually.

crazy that at one point this was Caroline Polachek's biggest claim to fame and now she's CAROLINE POLACHEK

I’m trying to be respectful but this is so stupid. A technology made to make human artists unnecessary, in a world that’s already hostile to artists, is not a technology that means nobody needs to have a job. You literally see what it’s being used for and yet are choosing some fantasy situation.

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

For those asking: “How can I help?”

We will need legal counsel.

I usually try to do everything on my own, but I cant imagine that finding affordable and effective legal counsel will be easy. If you have any recommendations, I’ll gladly take them.

Shoot me a DM 📩

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

That place is truly one of this town’s treasures

It’s on

Hey, I have a favor to ask. I never used my IG account until recently, so I don't have much of a following there. But I am trying to use it more. If you follow me here, could you follow me there too? I'm at @chrisdevilleofficial — mostly book promo now, but I will put other stuff there eventually.

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Where's the registry for companies who ghost you after an interview?

"Shifted the musical landscape."

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This is incredibly stupid on a number of levels, but it’s also enraging to hear from a guy who led a government program that destroyed some of the most effective anti-poverty and disease prevention programs we had.

Physical media has never been more valuable than it is right now.

We are on a fixed monthly electric bill and ours went up by $100 this month. Now that I'm hearing AI might be the cause of that, I'm furious.

So naturally this is the moment the Trump team is trying to kill off wind and solar.

This is legitimately comparable to the vinyl pressing plants getting so backed up making records for pop stars that indie artists have to wait months and months to release their finished albums