Wolf Alice, Jorja Smith and more to play Rock Werchter 2018
The festival comes to Werchter, Belgium from 5th-8th July.
9th March 2018
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9th March 2018
George Ezra shares ‘Hold My Girl’ and announces Wembley Arena show
Geoff’s second album ‘Staying At Tamara’s’ is out this month.
9th March 2018
IDLES, Black Honey and Young Fathers shine at Scotland’s Electric Fields
Saturday also saw DIY take over the Valley Stage for a full day of musical treats.
9th March 2018
The Magic Gang share the delicate ‘Take Care’
The track sees bassist Gus Taylor take lead vocals for the first time.
9th March 2018
The Streets share ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
Mike Skinner is heading out on a greatest hits UK tour next month.
9th March 2018
Listen to Vince Staples’ new song ‘Get The Fuck Off My Dick’
Turns out this was what the GoFundMe page was promoting…
9th March 2018
8th March 2018
Amber Arcades announces a string of European tour dates
Annelotte de Graaf is playing at London’s Omeara in June as part of it.
8th March 2018
Team Picture announce new mini-album ‘Recital’
They’ve also shared a video for ‘(I Want Your) Life Hack’ and a UK tour to boot!
8th March 2018
Gengahr share new track ‘Burning Air’
They’re releasing ‘Where Wildness Grows’ tomorrow!
8th March 2018
Parquet Courts head to Mardi Gras in the video for ‘Wide Awake!’
Their album of the same name is out in May.
8th March 2018
Baywaves announce new EP ‘It’s Been Like’
They’ve also shared new track ‘Still In Bed’.
8th March 2018
Pizzagirl crafts exuberant alt-pop on ‘Coffee Shop’
He’s releasing his EP ‘An Extended Play’ in April.
8th March 2018
Ulrika Spacek announce new EP ‘Suggestive Listening’
It’s out in April and they’ve shared ‘Lord Luck’ from it.
8th March 2018
Pet Deaths weave captivating celestial folk on ‘The Bats In Your Hair’
Ahead of a run of shows with sir Was, Graeme Martin and Liam Karima’s latest is today’s Neu Pick.
8th March 2018
Eleanor Friedberger shares a new video for ‘In Between Stars’
It’s been shot by Eleanor herself and edited by Danny Perez.
8th March 2018
SOPHIE and Lao Ra are headed to NOS Alive 2018
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are also set for the Lisbon bash.
8th March 2018
Boy Azooga announce a new London show
They’ll play at Scala in October.
8th March 2018
Dream Wife get in the ring in their video for ‘F.U.U.’
They’ve teamed up with EVE Wrestling for the clip.
8th March 2018
Simian Mobile Disco share a new video for ‘Hey Sister’
It continues the narrative that was established in ‘Caught In A Wave’.
8th March 2018
Oh Sees announce a new UK tour
They’re hitting the road this summer.
8th March 2018
Stef Chura shares new track ‘Degrees’
It’s been produced by Car Seat Headrest’s Will Toledo.
8th March 2018
Grouper announces new album ‘Grid of Points’
She’s also shared ‘Parking Lot’ from the upcoming LP.
8th March 2018
Demob Happy get dancing in the video for ‘Loosen It’
Their new album ‘Holy Doom’ is out later this month.
8th March 2018
Katie Von Schleicher – Glad To Be Here
A strident return from the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter.
8th March 2018
Watch Mabel cover Coldplay in the Live Lounge
She also played her recent single ‘Fine Line’.
8th March 2018
King Krule goes interstellar with new short film ‘Live On The Moon’
It features performances of tracks from ‘The OOZ’.
8th March 2018
Watch Albert Hammond Jr. play ‘Set To Attack’ on Corden
His new album ‘Francis Trouble’ is out tomorrow.
8th March 2018
Forth Wanderers share new track ‘Nevermine’
The New Jersey bunch’s self-titled new album is out next month.
8th March 2018
Grouper – Parking Lot
A sparse, haunting return from Liz Harris.
8th March 2018
Gordi shares a new video for ‘I’m Done’
The clip features S. Carey, who also appears on the track.
8th March 2018
Watch The Breeders play two tracks on Album de la Semaine
They took ‘Nervous Mary’ and ‘Wait In The Car’ to French telly.
8th March 2018
Paramore are going on a North American tour
They’ll hit the road with Foster The People from June!
8th March 2018
IDLES bring compassion and ferocity to Bestival 2018
Sincerity and fun are both on the menu for the brilliant late-afternoon set down in Dorset.
8th March 2018
Head out on the road with Low Island & Friends
DIY joined the Oxford band as they embarked upon the inaugural Low Island & Friends tour last year.
8th March 2018
The Neu Bulletin (Ari Roar, Tallies, Thunder Jackson & more)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
8th March 2018
Katie Von Schleicher shares new track ‘Glad To Be Here’
It’s from an upcoming new 7” release.
8th March 2018
7th March 2018
Gengahr — Where Wildness Grows
4 Stars
An ode to patience, determination and second chances.
7th March 2018
4th March 2018
Albert Hammond Jr returns to NYC on compelling form at joyous Brooklyn Steel show
No one present would have cause for complaint if he carried on forever.
4th March 2018
2nd March 2018
Camp Cope — How To Socialise and Make Friends
4 Stars
If Camp Cope’s debut introduced the garage rockers as serious ones to watch, this cements them as essential.
2nd March 2018
The Men — Drift
4 Stars
Wilfully experimental and typically fluid.
2nd March 2018
Soccer Mommy — Clean
4 Stars
Sophie Allison shoots, and she scores.
2nd March 2018
Lucy Dacus — Historian
4 Stars
She strengthens her already taut grip on rustling, soul-blemished rock.
2nd March 2018
Rolo Tomassi — Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
4 Stars
First and foremost, riotously good fun.
2nd March 2018
Superorganism — Superorganism
3 Stars
Every song is born from the same basic stem cells; fuelled by the same thirst for weirdness.
2nd March 2018
The Breeders — All Nerve
3 Stars
There are moments where the magic of this iconic incarnation of the band feels recaptured.
2nd March 2018
Moaning — Moaning
3 Stars
You can’t help but feel that they’ve been beaten to the punch.
2nd March 2018
Titus Andronicus — A Productive Cough
2 Stars
Completely without inspiration.
2nd March 2018
Tracks: Chvrches, Lorde ft Run The Jewels, Iceage & more
All the biggest and best tracks of the week, rounded up and reviewed.
2nd March 2018
1st March 2018
The Neu Bulletin (King Princess, Bodega, Jo Passed & more)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
1st March 2018
28th February 2018
Whenyoung are your new favourite indie band
Hanging with Bono and penning sweet, infectious indie-pop, this London-via-Dublin trio are a supremely exciting prospect.
28th February 2018
27th February 2018
“We got rid of all the half measures” — Peace are powering back up
It’s been three long years in the making, but Peace are finally back in the game with gloriously ballsy single ‘Power’ and a third LP around the corner.
27th February 2018
26th February 2018
Natalie Prass announces new album ‘The Future and The Past’ with video for ‘Short Court Style’
The album’s out in June via ATO Records.
26th February 2018
Mitski announces UK/European tour
She’s announced a new series of Autumn shows behind ‘Puberty 2’.
26th February 2018
Jessie Ware, SOPHIE and more to play Pohoda Festival 2018
The festival comes to the Trenčín Airport in Slovakia in early July.
26th February 2018
Grimes shares plans for “final album for my shit label”, set to be “highly collaborative”
Claire Boucher is also working on another album of “extreme darkness and chaos”.
26th February 2018
It looks like The National’s Matt Berninger will feature on the new Chvrches album
A track called ‘My Enemy’ briefly popped up on streaming services.
26th February 2018
Brockhampton announce European tour
They play three headline dates in August.
26th February 2018
Alice Glass says that Ethan Kath’s defamation suit has now been dismissed
“This is a victory for survivors of abuse and sexual misconduct,” she tweeted.
26th February 2018
The New Tusk share the frantic ‘Tarmac’
The track was recorded with MJ at Suburban Home Studios in Leeds.
26th February 2018
Franz Ferdinand enter a triumphant new phase at glorious Brixton comeback
Past it? Fuck no.
26th February 2018
24th February 2018
Alvvays entrance the Roundhouse
Alvvays might be a dependable source of brilliance, but they’re also brilliantly unpredictable when you don’t quite expect it.
24th February 2018
23rd February 2018
Surf’s up: it’s The Magic Gang!
Channelling the ‘60s into something fresh, new and exciting, The Magic Gang are leading a brilliant new pack of British guitar bands. Their debut album comes good on all their promise.
23rd February 2018
Public Access TV — Street Safari
4 Stars
A big and brilliant step out of the box.
23rd February 2018
Turnstile — Time &; Space
4 Stars
A comprehensive thrash.
23rd February 2018
Frigs — Basic Behaviour
4 Stars
Even as they strain between varying poles, Frigs still manage to find moments of great, if sombre, beauty.
23rd February 2018
Lo Moon — Lo Moon
4 Stars
A towering debut.
23rd February 2018
SHIRT – Pure Beauty
3 Stars
Big things haven’t been delivered yet, but that doesn’t mean to say big things can’t be.
23rd February 2018
Table Scraps — Autonomy
3 Stars
One with more than its fair share of potential.
23rd February 2018
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard transform Brixton Academy into their own ‘Gizz-verse’ for the night
They’re a whirlwind that barely seems to cease.
23rd February 2018
Lo Moon talk their huge, shiny debut album
We talk through the record with frontman Matt Lowell.
23rd February 2018
Tracks: Parquet Courts, Janelle Monáe, Father John Misty, Sunflower Bean and more
All the biggest and best tracks of the week, rounded up and reviewed.
23rd February 2018
Sunflower Bean share sort-of title track ‘TwentyTwo’
Their second album ‘Twentytwo in Blue’ is out next month.
23rd February 2018
The Vaccines, Shame, The Horrors and more join Reading & Leeds 2018
All these and more join Kendrick Lamar, Wolf Alice and more at the August bash.
23rd February 2018
Janelle Monáe — Make Me Feel
This might just be 2018’s most electric return so far.
23rd February 2018
Jon Hopkins shares new music
It looks to be a trailer for an upcoming new album.
23rd February 2018
King Nun, Sorry & Yellow Days to play DIY’s Liverpool Sound City stage
Last month, we worked with a group of BIMM students to offer them firsthand experience in music journalism.
23rd February 2018
The Death Of Pop return with ‘700 Spas’
The band are releasing new EP ‘Heads West’ next month via Leisure Records.
23rd February 2018
22nd February 2018
The Neu Bulletin (Haley Heynderickx, Yuno, Halo Maud & more)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
22nd February 2018
Square eyes: Public Access TV
The New Yorkers are back, switched on, and ready for action.
22nd February 2018
Rex Orange County incites hysteria at biggest show to date
Alex O’Connor and band took to KOKO, met with scream upon scream.
22nd February 2018
Janelle Monáe shares new tracks ‘Make Me Feel’ and ‘Django Jane’
She announced ‘Dirty Computer’ last week!
22nd February 2018
21st February 2018
The Brit Awards 2018 — A Best Case Scenario
There might not be any cape-related incidents or falling house dancers on the agenda, but here’s what you should be looking out for at tonight’s ceremony.
21st February 2018
Roundhouse Rising 2018
The event returns to the iconic North London venue.
21st February 2018
20th February 2018
Watch Real Estate play a new song live
They released their latest album ‘In Mind’ last year.
20th February 2018
Alexis Taylor – Beautiful Thing
A propulsive, genre-bending cut that feels far removed from Taylor’s recent work on ‘Piano’.
20th February 2018
Alexis Taylor announces new album ‘Beautiful Thing’
He’s also announced a few European tour dates to boot.
20th February 2018
Bastille, Jon Hopkins and more are set for Wilderness 2018
Chic ft. Nile Rodgers, Chk Chk Chk and more have also been announced.
20th February 2018
Boniface shares new track ‘Phantom Limbs’
The majority of ‘Boniface’ explores the everyday realities of growing up against the social grain.
20th February 2018
Catholic Action share new b‑side ‘Little Girl’
Their UK tour also kicks off today!
20th February 2018
Dua Lipa, Gorillaz, Stormzy and more are headed to Sziget 2018
The War On Drugs and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are also amongst the new additions.
20th February 2018
Frøkedal shares new track ‘Believe’
The Norwegian is gearing up to release a second album.
20th February 2018
Holy Motors are in the driving seat on ‘Valley’
The Estonians’ dusty, atmospheric slice from their upcoming debut is today’s Neu Pick.
20th February 2018
Hop Along share new track ‘Not Abel’
It comes from their new album ‘Bark Your Head Off, Dog’, which comes out in April.
20th February 2018
Jonny Greenwood is set to release his ‘You Were Never Really Here’ soundtrack
He’s scored the latest mystery-thriller from Lynne Ramsay.
20th February 2018
MØ, Preoccupations and more are set for Dour Festival 2018
Goldlink, Little Dragon and more are also headed to Belgium.
20th February 2018
Our Girl share new self-titled single
They’ve also announced a headline show at London’s Moth Club!
20th February 2018
PJ Harvey and Harry Escott share a new video for ‘An Acre of Land’
The track is featured on the soundtrack for ‘Dark River’.
20th February 2018
Promiseland goes out of this world in video for ‘My Shadow’
The NYC-based singer is signed to Julian Casablancas’ Cult Records.
20th February 2018
Fight! Fight! Fight! Meet Slaves’ favourite new band, Lady Bird
In one corner, there’s Slaves: DIY’s favourite punk duo turned new label owners. In the other, there’s Lady Bird: rising Kent trio and new signees. And in the middle — Girl Fight Records.
20th February 2018
What’s Going On With… Demob Happy?
The Brighton riffmonger’s 2015 debut ‘Dream Soda’ was an underrated slab of saucepot genius. Now they’re back and ready to ensure that LP2 flies to the top of the pack.
20th February 2018