Kevin Devine

For the entirety of his three-decade career, Kevin Devine has been an artist of great multiplicity. Through his work as a solo artist, leader of the Goddamn Band, and collaborator in Bad Books with Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull and Robert McDowell, Devine’s music is defined by its ability to inhabit extremes: gentle and furious, personal and global, abstract and deeply grounded. This range and emotional honesty have become his hallmark, taking him not only to stages like the Ryman Auditorium, Red Rocks, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Coachella, but also to living rooms and basement clubs around the world, with audiences hanging on every life-affirming, heartbreaking, wryly comic, disarming lyric.

Those listeners have grown alongside Devine across nearly a dozen studio albums, countless EPs, cover projects, and split releases – atop beds of fuzzed-out power pop, brash noise rock, delicate folk, and angular indie, teeming with ruminations on anxiety,…