Win Isle of Wight Festival weekend tickets
The festival is headlined by The Who, Stereophonics, Faithless and Queen (with Adam Lambert, obvs).
13th May 2016
Features
Tracks: MØ, Metronomy & More
DIY writers pick out the biggest and best new songs from the last seven days.
13th May 2016
Take a Chance on 3: the juice on Chano’s third LP
TGIF in a couple of days because we’re gonna be blessed with ‘Chance 3’.
11th May 2016
The Neu Bulletin (Laurel, Hollowtapes, Frigs, Garden Centre & more)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
11th May 2016
Looking back on Gorillaz’s ‘Demon Days’
A band of fictional cartoon characters created one of the most influential records of the early noughties. No, really.
10th May 2016
Dreaming big: Pinegrove
With ‘Cardinal’, the Montclair, New Jersey have made one of 2016’s sleeper triumphs. Evan Stevens Hall talks the story behind their first work.
9th May 2016
How Radiohead avoid extinction
‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ doesn’t reinvent the wheel. Instead, it finds Radiohead accepting their past like never before. And it could be the reason they’re still going strong.
9th May 2016
Back to the future garage: Ten years of ‘Burial’
As ‘Burial’ turns ten this week, we step backward to see how William Bevan took 2‑Step forwards.
9th May 2016
Martha talk growing up and “still being rowdy punks”
The Pity Me punks are keeping their feet on the ground as they approach album two — but still letting their heads scrape the clouds from time to time.
7th May 2016
Enough is enough: how do musicians know when an album is finished?
We asked some of our faves just when they know it’s high time to step out the studio, and let their records fly free.
7th May 2016
Stripping back the paintwork of James Blake’s ‘The Colour In Anything’
With the dust settling on the shock release of James Blake’s massive 17-track opus, Tom Connick dissects The Album Formely Known As Radio Silence.
6th May 2016
Tracks: Radiohead, James Blake, & More
DIY writers pick out the biggest and best new songs from the last seven days.
6th May 2016
White Lung: “We all want that power”
White Lung have upped every aspect of their game for ‘Paradise’. Geeking out on pedals, finding fascination in serial killers — they’ve done everything in their power to find that next gear.
5th May 2016
You slot, mate?! - The most unlikely telly appearances
From Wossy spooning Yeezy, to Haim calling David Cameron ‘DC’, here are some of the oddest music slots on the tellybox.
5th May 2016
Years & Years: “Everything seemed to come together”
From drunkenly badgering Tom Jones, to erm.. condoms, Years & Years take stock of a whirlwind rise to the top of the charts.
4th May 2016
Spring King: “When you love something, perseverance is second nature”
Tarek Musa joins DIY’s 50th issue bash as he gears up for the release of that long-anticipated debut album.
4th May 2016
The Neu Bulletin (Weirdo, Her’s, Gunk & more)
DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.
4th May 2016
Poliça talk ‘United Crushers’: “I saw this record as my last chance”
The band’s Channy Leaneagh opens up about the “transformative head spaces” that their new album was born in.
1st May 2016
Jaws in the studio: “We wrote a lot of bloody songs for this record”
Now that the Birmingham trio have completed work on their follow-up to ‘Be Slowly’, the band’s Connor Schofield offers up a few details.
1st May 2016
Rip it up and start again: Biffy Clyro
The Scottish trio are tearing up their own rulebook for album seven.
30th April 2016
The Kills: “This feeling of completeness - with art, that’s a big thing”
Mishaps, mayhem, and Vladimir Putin – it’s an unusual backdrop for an album to say the least. Then again, The Kills have never played by the rules.
29th April 2016
Win a pair of tickets to this year’s Lowlands
Muse, LCD Soundystem, Foals, Chvrches, Biffy Clyro and more feature at the Dutch event.
29th April 2016
Tracks: Spring King, Partybaby & more
DIY writers pick out the biggest and best new songs from the last seven days.
29th April 2016
The Wytches: “Our writing process is so fucked”
As the Brighton force ready their second album, this weekend they play two secret shows in an abandoned warehouse. Not exactly low-key, then. They speak to Ali Shutler.
28th April 2016
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.