Chris DeVille
@chrisdeville
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Managing Editor, @stereogum Author, SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, coming 2025 via @StMartinsPress Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgr8heights chris at stereogum dot com
Columbus
Joined March 2009
Could not believe what I was hearing/seeing.
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Legacy in tatters now, but at the time no band meant more to me.
Arcade Fire perform "Rebellion (Lies)" on Later. with Jools Holland (2005)
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Spoon, a band with a robust and near-flawless discography, playing before Interpol, a band with .75 good albums… complete bullshit.
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Imagine being able to tell your grandchildren you saw RTJ and Mitski open for Lorde
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This album means more to me than almost any other. I tried to explain why:
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This week's column tackles the surprising goodness of "Bad Things" and the inevitable superstardom of Camila Cabello
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Arguably the greatest indie band of their era and when I see them live THIS is the song I'm always waiting for.
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Pleased to announce @scottgum is buying back Stereogum from Billboard/THR and we will be an independent site going forward, with Scott as CEO
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One of those bands that nailed its aesthetic from the start and had nowhere to go but down, but when they hit, THEY HIT. Also maybe the loudest concert I ever attended.
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When your local cleaner is auditioning to be Big Sean’s ghostwriter
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In 2013-2014 being into "indie music" meant this.
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They may have better songs, but none of them sell the idea of Beach House more effectively.
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Bon Iver perform "For Emma" a cappella in a Take Away Show (2008)
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Wrote about one of the greatest rock albums, one of the greatest indie albums, one of the greatest pivot-to-ugliness albums, one of the greatest albums recorded by Steve Albini, one of the greatest Ohio albums, one of the greatest albums in general
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Grammy nods my annual reminder that I'm living completely insulated from anyone who listens to Jacob Collier.
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This week's column is on one of my favorite new pop stars, Camila Cabello, who has become such a big deal that I sometimes forget she used to be in Fifth Harmony
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Don’t forget “male manipulator music”.
gender essentialism in hobbies (“weird girl music” “men don’t get fiona apple” “female rage cinema”) has been a disaster for cultural criticism. one of the purposes of art is to allow us to empathise with perspectives alien to our own. hate it so much.
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At the Vampire Weekend show and “You’ve got the luck of a Kennedy” hits different tonight.
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New albums from Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar, [Radiohead-adjacent], and Wilco [2xLP] in May. My people (dads/music critics) are eating good.
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'WE' is the best Arcade Fire album since 'Funeral.' I love it so much.
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After a few months of posting old TV performances YouTube is now feeding me gems like this instead of chill beats to study to or whatever 😭🙏.
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Wrote about the album I love so much I made it my avatar, one of the best, weirdest, most exhilarating indie-rock records of all time
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This was a pivotal moment in my life.
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Wrote about one of the best nighttime albums, one of the best marriage albums, one of the best Yo La Tengo albums
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lol a blogger called on Taylor Swift to denounce white supremacy and instead Swift threatened to sue the blogger
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My nine-year-old daughter voluntarily put on D-Plan "You Are Invited" in the car this week, and now she's playing old Vampire Weekend songs around the house
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@JoshhTerry @oppsopps The thought of listening to even podcasts at increased speeds makes my chest tense up.
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Damn imagine getting the press Lizzo's been getting and then reacting this way to one less-than-glowing review
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A classic from the moment it came into this world.
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Wrote about BLACKPINK taking over the world by bringing back early '10s Kesha/Nicki/Skrillex bombast
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Iconic video but the proper way to listen to this song is with no visuals, on compact disc, in a 1988 Toyota Camry with automatic seatbelts.
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Gotta give credit where it’s due, @tylerrjoseph accurately predicted that Utah would crush Oregon
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Give it up for the Elvis Presley of chillwave (complimentary).
Neon Indian performs "Terminally Chill" on Fallon (2010)
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Wrote about one of the best guitar hero albums / best pop-rock albums / best indie-goes-major albums / best albums period
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Honestly probably Being There but I can't fault anyone who says Summerteeth or A Ghost Is Born.
what's the best wilco album that isn't yankee hotel.
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No more bands that sound like Alex G we're all filled up.
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Protect the Wayback Machine at all costs.
BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.
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The Smile's debut is the best non-Radiohead album Thom Yorke has ever released (and not coincidentally sounds a lot like a Radiohead album)
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Wrote about the most exciting indie rock Event Album in quite some time
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Wrote about getting older, settling down, and the Dismemberment Plan, who (obviously) mean the world to me
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I've enjoyed the big dumb Big Thief discourse but it's a pale substitute for my true craving: Insufferable The 1975 discourse.
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Moving pro sports teams is cruel and should be illegal.
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The indie infrastructure and the pop infrastructure had been cozying up to each other for a long while by this point, but Lorde might be the demarcation point where they really and truly overlapped.
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Crazy how "Espresso" turned out to be a Trojan horse for an awesome Kacey Musgraves album.
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Everyone knows "Shoot The Singer" is a top 10 Pavement song (top 5?)
The Watery, Domestic EP was released 32 years ago today. What’s your favorite track? ♡
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The "WOO!" heard 'round the (dad rock) world.
The War On Drugs perform "Red Eyes" on Austin City Limits (2015)
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Cerulean Salt: a cultural reset.
Waxahatchee performs "Peace And Quiet" at Pitchfork Music Festival (2013)
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Wrote about subjects including wild family dogs, fuckin' people over, the stars projectin' this life down to this planet Earth
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A perfect song (THE perfect song?).
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I wrote about the legacy of In The Aeroplane Over Sea Sea: a masterpiece, a myth, and a genre unto itself
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Hadn't listened to this album for many years until editing this piece. Was surprised to find out how hard some of it rocks.
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Thinking about this again.
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I know I am "bias" as the stans say, but culture criticism is a creative discipline in its own right and at its best it has set my soul on fire as often as any other artform.
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I've probably listened to the new @vampireweekend album 50+ times straight through and am obsessed with it so here's my "Premature Evaluation" aka deeply considered dissertation
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How great would it be if the next Father John Misty album was called COWBOY with lead single "Nobody".
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Wrote about Insignificance with an enthusiasm that would surely repulse Jim O'Rourke
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In 2013 I didn't play many albums more than this one
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Making my kids listen to Crooked Rain in the car instead of Barbie songs and Zara Larsson. Happy Fathers Day.
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if you've never listened to BRAT with your wife and children while riding shotgun on a deserted Kansas highway, blogging about MJ Lenderman from an iPhone hotspot, barreling toward the Colorado border, have you even lived.
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I was worried about the new Tame Impala album. I should not have been worried about the new Tame Impala album.
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The moment when every indie rock band decided "we're an indie R&B band now".
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I wrote about a very important album in the history of "indie" that also happens to be good
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I only play 'Loveless' by myself in the car because no one else in my life appreciates the need to listen to MBV at unhealthy volumes. Relatedly I am currently alone and there is snow on the ground and it's after dark so you already know what it is.
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Wrote about Sea Change, which spoke to my stupid teenage feelings and still sounds immaculate two decades later
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A hill I will die on is that listening to books and even podcasts at increased speeds is psychotic behavior.
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Wrote about the astonishing new Wilco album, which is easily their best since A Ghost Is Born
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The Chainsmokers performed a very special version of "Closer" last night
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Imagine not thinking How It Feels To Be Something On is the best Sunny Day Real Estate album and one of the greatest albums of all time.
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@FranziaMom It's the best indie rock album of the 21st century, but I can totally see why it would be tainted now for some people given that Win became allegedly a total skeeze.
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Just realized Car Seat Headrest has beef with a TV show about teen suicide and a band called Teen Suicide — a strong and consistent platform.
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When Steve Albini died, we were getting ready to publish a career-spanning interview with him ahead of the new Shellac album. Here it is:
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Wrote about the good old days when Coldplay were the new Travis
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SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, coming 2025 via St. Martin's Press.
last night, the bartender told me I didn't need to be carded because I had a death cab for cutie shirt on.
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Wrote about the album that turned me on to Sonic Youth when I was 18
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I’m told someone in the front row for Viagra Boys at Desert Daze had a block of cheese and was grating it onto people’s heads.
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After eight (8) years, just pushed publish on my final The Week In Pop, a list of my favorite pop songs of 2021. It is a good list. It has been, I think, a good run. Starting in January, @RachelBrods will be taking over the column. I'm stoked!
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