Slugger Punch: Sad13
With new pop project Sad13, Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis is wielding a baseball bat and whacking open the doors to communication.
11th August 2016
Features
In the studio: Warpaint
After two years apart pursuing other creative projects, Warpaint are back, reinvigorated with third record ‘Heads Up’.
10th August 2016
The Neu Bulletin (serpentwithfeet, Ndella, The Hour & more)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
10th August 2016
There’s no place like Suburban Home: producer MJ shows us around his rebuilt studio
After the Christmas floods destroyed MJ’s riverside studio, he rebuilt the entire thing from scratch. Half a year on, he gives us a guided tour.
9th August 2016
Her Time is Nao
‘For All We Know’ might have a vague title when it comes to looking forward, but Nao’s debut cements this Londoner’s future as a star.
8th August 2016
One thing’s for sure, we’re all getting older - The Maccabees call it quits
From indie darlings to genuine world-beaters, The Maccabees claim to have split at their “creative peak,” and they’re spot on.
8th August 2016
Formed a band: Spring King
Spring King began life as a cobbled-together, ‘that’ll do’ project. Three years later, on the brink of a massive breakthrough, they have one of the year’s best debuts by their side.
6th August 2016
Kings Of The Jungle: Wild Beasts
With new album ‘Boy King’, Wild Beasts are swapping silken sounds for leather jackets, and kicking down the door to the pop party.
5th August 2016
Visions Festival 2016
Young Fathers head up a bill that also features ESG, Pumarosa and Yak.
5th August 2016
Tracks: Grimes, BANKS and those Frank Ocean instrumentals
We deliver verdicts on the week’s best and biggest tracks.
5th August 2016
Deftones: The Untravelled Path
Four years on since ‘Koi No Yokan’ and more than twenty years into their careers, Deftones are still venturing into unknown territory.
4th August 2016
Golden days: Whitney
A sweet-hearted new project ready to take over the world? Not quite. They just wanna dance with somebody.
4th August 2016
Looking back on Los Campesinos!’ ‘Romance Is Boring’
An exercise in individualistic indie-pop, the seven-piece rabble’s second record is this month’s inductee into the DIY Hall Of Fame.
3rd August 2016
DIY Podcast 002: White, Frightened Rabbit and Courtney Barnett at Latitude
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3rd August 2016
The Neu Bulletin (At/All, Jesse Mac Cormack, Yassassin & more)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
3rd August 2016
Animal Collective: “We’ve been around longer than most of my favourite bands”
Dinosaurs, Dada and prehistoric punk — it’s just another normal day in the office for Animal Collective.
2nd August 2016
No Spain, no gain: exploring the country’s best underground bands
From MOURN to Los Nastys, we look at the unsung heroes breaking out of Spain instead of being contained.
2nd August 2016
Mercury Prize 2016 season approaches - here’s what we’d like to see
With this year’s nominees announced on Thursday (4th August), let the speculation begin.
2nd August 2016
Basement: Out of the underground
With arenas in their sights and new album ‘Promise Everything’ surging forward, Basement are coming up for air.
29th July 2016
Tracks: The Big Moon, My Chemical Romance, Nao, & More
We deliver verdicts on the week’s best and biggest tracks.
29th July 2016
Pleasure pop catharsis: Japanese Breakfast
Michelle Zauner’s ‘Psychopomp’ album is one of the year’s most deeply personal debuts. She speaks to Eugenie Johnson about how she was “surprised” by her own grief.
28th July 2016
Suede, Swim Deep, Yak - the acts to catch at this year’s Standon Calling
The festival takes place this weekend in Hertfordshire.
28th July 2016
Just deserts: the HOT new music video craze!
Heatwave be damned — everyone’s being shipped off to sandy new destinations, these days.
28th July 2016
The Killers: what the hell are they up to?
Here’s what we know about a band who’ve been very reclusive of late (not to make a hot fuss about it or anything).
28th July 2016
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.