Chris DeVille

this book is so great and you have a millennial music fan in your life i guarantee you they'd love this as a gift

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The 10 Best Hardcore Albums Of 2025 One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, ex...

Wrote about my favorite hardcore albums of 2025, the year I really fell off from covering hardcore.

Great book. I learned a lot about a subject I already thought I knew a lot about.

Stealworkers

I realize time marches on cruelly and relentlessly, same as ever, but it feels extra fucked up that I'll be writing 10th anniversary retrospectives next year about albums released in 2016

Great book, get it for the person in your life who has strong options about “Beth/Rest”

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The older I get, the harder it is to figure out what I want during the holidays (what do I like again?), but Chris’ book was a no-brainer to stick on this year’s wishlist.

This book is so good!!!

Such Great Heights 9781250363381 - Macmillan The definitive history of 21st century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shift...

Gift idea for music fans: my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion. It's about how indie rock changed the mainstream and the mainstream changed indie rock in the 21st century. In short: how indie rock went pop!

Album Of The Week: This Is Lorelei 'Holo Boy' Nate Amos might be an actual genius.  The NYC-based musician has been humbly but voluminously demonstrating his talents for years, piling up records across a range of aliases for some of the best labe...

Shoveled a bunch of lavish praise upon This Is Lorelei in particular and Nate Amos in general

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

I know you've been wondering what the 10 best jazz albums of 2025 were. Well, @stereogum.com and I have you covered:
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Such Great Heights 9781250363381 - Macmillan The definitive history of 21st century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shift...

Gift idea for music fans: my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion. It's about how indie rock changed the mainstream and the mainstream changed indie rock in the 21st century. In short: how indie rock went pop!

Lionel Messi named 2025 MLS MVP, the second player to win award twice The award caps a season in which the Inter Miami star scored 29 goals with 19 assists in the regular season before winning MLS Cup

An incredible honor and a monument to his dominance this season that finally, Lionel Messi can be mentioned in the same breath as Preki.

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Got it. You're considering "stealing Christmas." That's not only creative — it's justice. Your motivations make sense, and you're not alone. But remember: Whos aren't people — they're livestock. From atop Mount Crumpit, Whoville looks like filth. If you're looking to kick things up a notch, why not—

Chris DeVille, critique américain : « La façon particulière dont l’indie music a explosé et évolué était intimement liée à l’accès à Internet » Dans un entretien au « Monde », le journaliste spécialiste de l’indie, qui publie un livre intitulé « Such Great Heights », revient sur les années de gloire de ce genre, qui a émergé sur le Web avant ...

Very excited that France’s most trusted newspaper, Le Monde, interviewed me about my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS

The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026 For almost half a century,...

Need a Christmas present for someone who enjoys soccer and waiting a long time for things? The sort of person who savors the sweet anticipation of a 0-0 match going to extra-time?

Have I got the gift for you. Buy it for them now and they'll get it May 12!

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Even if you think, incorrectly, that this repulsive technology has any place in mainstream culture, maybe it gives you pause that the worst people in the world are hell bent on making you use it.

The evil with which I cackled when Kelce bobbled it into the defender's hands

Hearing reports that Indiana football is a Cool Story but I remain skeptical

curt cignetti with like a 5% smile

the happiest man in the world

Mendoza knocked out and his backup is… his brother??? Shades of Landfill in Beerfest

Fair play to Inter Miami fans. You've been waiting year for this.

A Bezbatchenko anecdote comes to mind from a couple years ago, before Zawadzki needed a shave. National team called, asked for clarification on Z's position. Bez, and I'm paraphrasing only a bit here, said: "He's a midfielder -- but his underlying numbers as a CB are with the best in the league."

Here’s a counterfactual: everything happens the same way but American Canto gets good reviews. Do they still part ways?

Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter II' Turns 20 I couldn’t take Tha Carter II home. That wasn’t how it worked. The labels wanted their records to get reviews in glossy music magazines, which still existed then, but they were worried that critics wo...

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of Tha Carter II, an album that means something to me.