Katy B: “I see this album as a multi-genre rave”
Pulling together producers from the UK underground to global chart-toppers for new album ‘Honey’, Katy B is giving back to the scene that gave her life.
18th April 2016
Interviews
Cate Le Bon: “I thought people might think it’s a concept album about crabs!”
Letting loose with wild, surreal ideas, ‘Crab Day’ is this Welsh musician’s most bonkers record yet.
14th April 2016
Pumarosa: “We try and work everyone up into a euphoric state”
From eccentric soap inventors to Italian hermits; everyone is getting caught up in the magnetic cult of Pumarosa.
13th April 2016
JAWS: The Art Of Simplicity
Keen to trade in their beachy, sunny-side-up sound for something more concrete, JAWS don’t just tighten up on their second album. ‘Simplicity’ is a total reinvention.
11th April 2016
Get to know Holy Now, the Gothenburg group mixing euphoria with insomnia
Four-piece are readying a new single, ‘Wake Up’, on UK label Beech Coma.
7th April 2016
Rolling In The Deap: the return of Deap Vally is nigh
With their second album ‘Femejism’ incoming, we’re getting awfully excited about the return of the thrashing twosome.
7th April 2016
LUH: “For a long time after WU LYF, I didn’t really wanna make music”
This is the beginning of a ‘new Lyf’ for Ellery James Roberts. But there’s a lot to do before his fancy-sounding “conceptual lifestyle brand” takes over.
5th April 2016
Drenge talk jazz covers bands, “waning self integrity” and Periscoping baglama players in Turkey
Eoin Loveless joins DIY’s 50th issue celebrations with an all-new chat.
4th April 2016
Metronomy: “I feel incredibly proud of what I’ve been able to do”
Joe Mount’s been here from the beginning — he featured in the first ever issue of DIY! With that in mine, we invited him along to our 50th party for a natter.
4th April 2016
CHVRCHES: “Creating a community and supporting other musicians is really important”
The Scots found some downtime during their quest for world domination to help DIY celebrate our 50th issue.
4th April 2016
WALL: “We just started it as fun and it’s gotten really real”
From Texas creatives to New York rockers, nothing’s going to stop the force that is WALL.
31st March 2016
Clean Cut Kid: “I’m looking forward to the record showing people what we really are”
Despite their fair share of hiccups and hurdles, this Liverpudlian quartet are planning for 2016 to be their year.
31st March 2016
Acting Class: Parquet Courts
Over the past five years, Parquet Courts have avoided photography, taken vows of silence and subverted the idea of being a musician. Now they’re taking a look at performance.
29th March 2016
White Denim: “If the record didn’t turn out good we probably would have just hung it up“
A whirlwind couple of years saw White Denim’s future under threat. Steve Terebecki tells Charlie Mock how they kept it together.
24th March 2016
Without a hitch: The Joy Formidable
After years of incessant touring, The Joy Formidable cut themselves off from the world to make LP3 — the result, ‘Hitch’, is their most confident and varied effort yet.
23rd March 2016
Mura Masa: Love for That
Currently squirreled away in the middle of nowhere writing his debut album, this Guernsey producer is going to be Mura-Massive.
15th March 2016
In Control: AlunaGeorge
No one could’ve predicted AlunaGeorge’s path, but one thing’s crystal clear: they’re more than ready to unveil their second album.
15th March 2016
Wired for Sound: Merchandise
With their fifth album, the Tampa group are getting abstract, and entering a new space.
11th March 2016
The genius of Grimes
Grimes exists on another planet, while everyone else revs up their rocket engines to play catch-up. The word genius is thrown around too lightly these days. Here’s one, right here.
4th March 2016
Daughter: a weird kind of therapy
The London trio return with a new album bigger, more direct and drenched in sorrow. It’s a full-on experience for everyone involved.
2nd March 2016
Santigold: “It’s a very narcissistic time”
Philly’s left-field pop queen is back, with her consumerism obsessed third album, and a dream team of producers behind her.
1st March 2016
Mothers: “It’s more of an empowering record than a sad record”
Mothers’ debut album is a snapshot of a band’s earliest steps like no other — as Kristine Leschper reveals, it’s just “a snapshot.”
29th February 2016
Cross Record: “I want people to feel a certain way”
Chances are you might have crossed paths with Emily Cross. This experimental musician has been everywhere.
27th February 2016
Kagoule: “This is a heavier experiment for us”
We go behind the curtain with the Nottingham band as they record new track ‘Pharmacy’ in the heart of Curtain Road.
22nd February 2016
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.