Contributor Lisa Wright
Reviews / Live
Foals make an intimate stop off at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire for War Child’s BRITs Week
Ahead of their conquering moment, it’s a riotous warm up for the Oxford lot.
February 21, 2020 3:41pm
Reviews / Live
The Strokes make an incendiary return to London with an all-killer set of
stone cold classics
A 90-minute reminder of exactly why, back at the turn of the musical century, these five men changed everything.
February 21, 2020 1:23pm
Reviews / Album
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Undoubtedly the singer’s darkest album yet.
February 21, 2020 10:30am
Features / Interviews
Albums of 2020: Shame
Crash-landing into indie’s premier league with ‘Songs of Praise’, Shame have been on a round-the-world trip of gigs ever since. Knuckling down for its follow up, get ready to join the whirlwind again.
February 19, 2020 1:00pm
Reviews / Album
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
It might make a star of its funk-heavy basslines, but there’s an ever- present underlying sadness here too.
February 13, 2020 7:58am
Reviews / Album
Bambara - Stray
Bambara stay firmly on a strong but fairly predictable path.
February 13, 2020 7:53am
Features / Interviews
Friends Reunited: Bombay Bicycle Club
Music veterans by their mid-twenties, having gone hard for a full decade, BBC needed to go home and find themselves again. Thankfully, they discovered a rejuvenated sense of enthusiasm and purpose.
February 11, 2020 12:32pm
Features / Interviews / Neu
A Thing You Call Joy: Sinead O’Brien
Top tier fashion designer by day, punk poet by night, Limerick’s Sinead O’Brien is a one-woman lesson in the power of dreaming big.
February 7, 2020 12:20pm
Reviews / Live
Demob Happy round off the DIY Presents Independent Venue Week tour, in association with Jack Daniel’s, with new tunes and mosh pits
Kicking off 2020 in intimate style, the Brighton trio will surely spend the rest of the year in far spacier surrounds.
February 6, 2020 5:27pm
Reviews / Live / Neu
Walt Disco, Working Men’s Club & more pack out the Old Blue Last for the hyped third night of Hello 2020
With Tiña and Mealtime in tow, the next 12 months are safe in this lot’s hands.
January 23, 2020 12:02pm
Reviews / Live
Lazarus Kane, PVA and more bring the eclectic underbelly to Hello 2020
Sleep Eaters and Silverbacks also took to the Old Blue Last’s stage for Night Two of the series.
January 17, 2020 5:05pm
Features / Tracks
Tracks: The 1975, Soccer Mommy, King Krule and more
The biggest and best tracks of the past week, rounded up and reviewed.
January 17, 2020 5:00pm
Features / Interviews
Big Albums in 2020: The Magic Gang
With their self-titled debut, The Magic Gang smashed into the Top 20 and proved that indie wasn’t dead. Now, they’re broadening their horizons and getting ready to hit the sweet spot once again.
January 17, 2020 10:47am
Features / Interviews
Big Albums of 2020: Halloweens
The new venture from The Vaccines’ Justin Young and Tim Lanham finds the pair embracing their nuances and throwing their arms around Paris.
January 15, 2020 12:32pm
Features
The ultimate A - Z of 2019’s best bits
Can’t quite remember everything that made 2019 quite such a massive year for music? No worries, mate - we’ve got you covered!
December 31, 2019 2:30pm
Features
DIY’s Albums of the Year 2019
Team DIY pick out their favourite records from the year.
December 20, 2019 10:00am
Features / Interviews
Class of 2020: Nasty Cherry
The girl band brainchild of Charli XCX, Nasty Cherry have been given all the tools and a massive platform to set them up for success. Now, they just have to come good on the potential.
December 18, 2019 9:35am
Features / Interviews
Class of 2020: Do Nothing
Straight outta Nottingham with a wiry line in danceable post-punk, Do Nothing are bringing humour, personality and big tunes to the table.
December 17, 2019 8:37pm
Reviews / Live
IDLES bring unbridled joy, unity and timely anger to Alexandra Palace
Sweaty, celebratory and utterly triumphant.
December 11, 2019 12:00am
Features / Interviews
Class of 2020: Dry Cleaning
Having gone from a bunch of mates making weird noise in a cupboard to one of the most hotly-tipped new groups in the country, Dry Cleaning are exactly the band we all need right now.
December 6, 2019 12:00pm