Feature
Looking back on The xx’s ‘xx’
A simple white cross that stamped itself on 2009’s ears, this London band’s debut album was a fully realised first outing unlike any other.
8th November 2016, 12:00am
Feature
A simple white cross that stamped itself on 2009’s ears, this London band’s debut album was a fully realised first outing unlike any other.
8th November 2016, 12:00am
Interview
Now that her long-awaited album’s out in the open, Shura reveals just some of the finer details…
7th November 2016, 12:00am
Live Review
After four years away from the capital, Grimes returns at the wheel of full-blown gaudy pop pandemonium.
3rd November 2016, 12:00am
Interview
Attempting to make their fourth album in just five years, Sleigh Bells hit a wall, and then the brake pedal. With ‘Jessica Rabbit’ they return three years later, bolder, brasher, and re-energised.
31st October 2016, 12:00am
Feature
Right now, loads of musicians are revealing themselves to be dab hands with a paint brush. We spoke to a few of the current crop about why art is their go-to.
25th October 2016, 12:00am
Feature
Connan Mockasin, and Sam Dust of Late of the Pier and LA Priest fame have made an album under the name Soft Hair. As you’d imagine, it’s a bit weird.
25th October 2016, 12:00am
A brave, if not entirely seamless, shift in tone from one of the world’s biggest pop stars.
24th October 2016, 3:04pm
Feature
With the organisation celebrating its first birthday - and stacks of future plans to stamp out sexual assault and harassment in the works - founding member Hann tells DIY what’s next.
18th October 2016, 12:00am
Interview
When Kate Tempest got Mercury nominated for her debut, she was relatively unknown. Follow-up ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’ sees her even more ambitious; she’s crafted a whole blimmin’ universe on one record.
14th October 2016, 12:00am
Live Review
The mood is more energetic than a small toddler in a sweetshop.
11th October 2016, 12:00am
Interview
After two years apart pursuing other creative projects, Warpaint are back, reinvigorated with third record ‘Heads Up’.
8th October 2016, 12:00am
For all its inherent playfulness, ‘Ugly Cherries’ is at heart a very sincere record.
6th October 2016, 3:56pm
The Australian songwriter’s debut mixes hyper-specific observations with the familiar old ache of a broken heart.
5th October 2016, 2:04pm
Feature
We grill the band’s John Eatherly on his biggest musical obsessions.
3rd October 2016, 12:00am
Feature
Where the hell did Bon Iver and Kanye West’s new favourite person come from? We shed a little light.
29th September 2016, 12:00am
Jenny Hval continues to experiment and cram her songs with context, but this is by no means a lofty record.
27th September 2016, 2:54pm
On their third album, the LA four-piece are fixated on fun.
22nd September 2016, 12:28pm
Feature
As the sneaky New Yorkers start to tease new music, we’ve taken a trip down memory lane.
22nd September 2016, 12:00am
Interview
Taking the vital, bolshy essence of their debut, and cranking it up to a whole new level, ‘Femejism’ is Deap Vally’s creative explosion.
14th September 2016, 12:00am
Interview
From getting banned from Matalan to letting rip on stage, Dream Wife are out to prove that sometimes darkness can be the brightest colour of all.
12th September 2016, 12:00am
Interview
An art project run riot and out of control, this lot have found themselves forming one of the most exciting new bands around right now.
8th September 2016, 12:00am
Feature
The ace singer-songwriter’s also a dab hand with a pen and paper - we interview him via the medium of interpretive drawing. Obviously.
7th September 2016, 12:00am
If this is her last album, ‘A.I.M.’ is a strange, slightly inconclusive goodbye wave from M.I.A.
6th September 2016, 2:04pm
Live Review
Barely contained and dangerous sounding, like a volatile chemical lump on the teetering razor-edge of self-destruction.
6th September 2016, 12:00am
With Rachel Chinouriri, A.G. Cook, Yannis Philippakis, Wasia Project and more!