Chris DeVille
@chrisdeville.bsky.social
Managing Editor, @stereogum.com
Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgreatheights.bsky.social
Buy my debut book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, out now via St. Martin's Press: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/such-great-heights-9781250363381/
Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgreatheights.bsky.social
Buy my debut book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, out now via St. Martin's Press: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/such-great-heights-9781250363381/
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Chris DeVille
@chrisdeville.bsky.social
· Aug 26
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...
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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:
'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:
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Only way this could be better is if there was a deluxe edition that came with the playlist preloaded on an iPod nano.
For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
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...
read.macmillan.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Only way this could be better is if there was a deluxe edition that came with the playlist preloaded on an iPod nano.
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For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
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...
read.macmillan.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
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Eminem joined fellow Detroit Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Jack White at today's Packers vs. Lions halftime
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November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Eminem joined fellow Detroit Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Jack White at today's Packers vs. Lions halftime
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock
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I want to read this, and will, but I know I’ll experience a layer of melancholy related to learning about the things I missed at the time.
For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
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...
read.macmillan.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I want to read this, and will, but I know I’ll experience a layer of melancholy related to learning about the things I missed at the time.
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Thanksgiving playlist: www.noexpectations.fyi/p/thanksgivi...
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thanksgiving playlist: www.noexpectations.fyi/p/thanksgivi...
For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
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...
read.macmillan.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For your holiday shopping consideration this Black Friday and beyond: SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, my book about 21st century indie rock morphing into pop. Perfect for millennial dads, moms who shopped at American Apparel, Gen Z indie fans curious about the past...
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To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.
President Trump brought grievances to the Thanksgiving pardoning ceremony on Tuesday. He joked about sending the turkeys to a prison in El Salvador, and claimed that last year's turkey pardons were invalid. n.pr/48nUsYx
Trump spares turkeys — but not his political opponents — at annual pardoning ceremony
President Trump brought grievances to the Thanksgiving pardoning ceremony on Tuesday. He joked about sending the turkeys to a prison in El Salvador, and claimed that last year's turkey pardons were invalid.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Wrote about the continuing sonic adventures of Pink Siifu
Album Of The Week: Pink Siifu 'ONYX'!'
I’m of two minds when it comes to Pink Siifu. On one hand, the Alabama-born rapper and musical adventurer deserves a massive glow-up. He’s consistently kicked out ambitious albums that reward in-depth...
stereogum.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Wrote about the continuing sonic adventures of Pink Siifu
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Links can't hurt you here.
Save your out of context screenshots for the garbage platforms.
LINK! TO! THE! STORY!
Save your out of context screenshots for the garbage platforms.
LINK! TO! THE! STORY!
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Links can't hurt you here.
Save your out of context screenshots for the garbage platforms.
LINK! TO! THE! STORY!
Save your out of context screenshots for the garbage platforms.
LINK! TO! THE! STORY!
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
I treasure J.J. McCarthy’s pathetic showings in the NFL as weekly reminders that his Michigan Wolverines won the national championship only by cheating
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I treasure J.J. McCarthy’s pathetic showings in the NFL as weekly reminders that his Michigan Wolverines won the national championship only by cheating
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In this fight we find ourselves in—the struggle for independence in the modern age—, we need to fearlessly push back against all market concentration wherever it arises.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In this fight we find ourselves in—the struggle for independence in the modern age—, we need to fearlessly push back against all market concentration wherever it arises.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.
Queen of ending the Cold War
The singer Carly Rae Jepsen and the movie ‘Rocky IV’ premiered 40 years ago today 🎂
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Queen of ending the Cold War
Excited to publish this op-ed by Jagjaguwar founder @dariusjagjag.bsky.social about [Stuart Murdoch voice] the state that we are in
Op-Ed: The Struggle For Independence In The Modern Age
Jagjaguwar's Darius Van Arman on our shared fight against market concentration and for art, culture, and access.
stereogum.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Excited to publish this op-ed by Jagjaguwar founder @dariusjagjag.bsky.social about [Stuart Murdoch voice] the state that we are in
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Op-ed: @jagjaguwar.bsky.social founder Darius Van Arman on the challenges facing independent artists and labels in today's music industry and how regulators can help
Op-Ed: The Struggle For Independence In The Modern Age
Jagjaguwar's Darius Van Arman on our shared fight against market concentration and for art, culture, and access.
stereogum.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Op-ed: @jagjaguwar.bsky.social founder Darius Van Arman on the challenges facing independent artists and labels in today's music industry and how regulators can help
Check out @thobbsjourno.bsky.social's interview with Hit-Boy, one of the defining hip-hop producers of his generation
Hit-Boy Is Finally Free
The superstar producer on seeking respect as an emcee through his new album with the Alchemist, attaining financial freedom with the end of an exploitative deal, and making the late Nipsey Hussle cry.
stereogum.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Check out @thobbsjourno.bsky.social's interview with Hit-Boy, one of the defining hip-hop producers of his generation
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Kreative Kontrol Patreon Subscriber Drive 2025!
November 21-28!
Target: 700 Subs!
w/daily random draw gifts!
listen for more info:
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November 21-28!
Target: 700 Subs!
w/daily random draw gifts!
listen for more info:
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💰: www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...
☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nstq340
🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Kreative Kontrol Patreon Subscriber Drive 2025!
November 21-28!
Target: 700 Subs!
w/daily random draw gifts!
listen for more info:
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
💰: www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...
☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nstq340
🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna
November 21-28!
Target: 700 Subs!
w/daily random draw gifts!
listen for more info:
🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
💰: www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...
☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nstq340
🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna
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I have done the research
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I have done the research
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HOT TAKE: if they’re not formally interviewing Tim Bezbatchenko, they’re insane.
Sources: MLS owners have officially begun the process of planning for Commissioner Don Garber's departure, holding their first succession committee meeting last week and retaining The Miles Group to lead the process. Full story at SBJ.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
MLS owners formally begin Don Garber succession planning
A small group of MLS owners held their first closed-door “succession committee” meeting last Wednesday prior to Thursday’s full Board of Governors meeting in Palm Beach, Fla.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
HOT TAKE: if they’re not formally interviewing Tim Bezbatchenko, they’re insane.
Wrote about Kai Slater's mastery of ancient formulas and the wholesome equation that is Sharp Pins + Balloon Balloon Balloon = pop!
Album Of The Week: Sharp Pins 'Balloon Balloon Balloon'
Kai Slater is obsessed with the past. For those of us who share his interests, that’s working out splendidly. Slater, a 21-year-old Chicago singer-songwriter, first gained renown as a member of Lifegu...
stereogum.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Wrote about Kai Slater's mastery of ancient formulas and the wholesome equation that is Sharp Pins + Balloon Balloon Balloon = pop!
Had a blast going on @historyonfilm.bsky.social and talking about (say it with me) my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
"Garden State" of Mind with Chris DeVille | The History on Film Podcast
Indie Rock and Popular Culture
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November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Had a blast going on @historyonfilm.bsky.social and talking about (say it with me) my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
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if you spent today talking about that bad writer on here, you're obligated to subscribe to an independent publication or newsletter tonight, sorry I don't make the rules
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
if you spent today talking about that bad writer on here, you're obligated to subscribe to an independent publication or newsletter tonight, sorry I don't make the rules