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The Neu Bulletin (White Wine, SuperGlu, Crewshade & more)

The Neu Bulletin (White Wine, SuperGlu, Acid Tongue & more)

DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.

10th February 2016

Making Waves: Beach Baby

The London band talk juggling recording a debut with picking up dead leaves.

9th February 2016

SWMRS: “we want to give people a different way of escaping”

We caught up with California band SWMRS in a Brighton alleyway. As you do.

6th February 2016

Metronomy: “I guess this album is an audio pedicure”

With his new album, Metronomy’s Joe Mount is getting a “musical pedicure”, treating himself to “me time” and ignoring any rules. DIY goes in the studio.

5th February 2016

Tracks: Deftones, Animal Collective, and more

DIY writers pick out the biggest and best new songs from the last seven days.

5th February 2016

Muncie Girls: “It’s encouraging people to be politically active”

Referencing Sylvia Plath and dismantling the patriarchy in a single breath, this Exeter trio mean business on their debut.

3rd February 2016

So You Think You Know… Ty Segall

Does this man ever sleep?! On the evidence of his millions of side projects, nope.

3rd February 2016

The Neu Bulletin (Alma Elste, Manuka Honeys, Jorja Smith & more)

DIY’s essential, weekly guide to the best new music.

3rd February 2016

Sunflower Bean: “Let the next generation have a hero”

The buzzy New Yorkers talk debut album ‘Human Ceremony’ and the desire to inspire a new wave.

2nd February 2016

Youth Lagoon’s demise is just the start of Trevor Powers’ next adventure

While we may be losing an outstanding project, Will Richards argues that in being able to step away from Youth Lagoon, Trevor Powers might finally be artistically free.

2nd February 2016

Black Peaks’ Brighton picks

The Brighton bruisers pick their favourites from the South Coast hotbed’s overflowing scene.

1st February 2016

Turning On An Axis: Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets aren’t just returning with a new album; they’re back as a whole new band.

30th January 2016

Savages are the answer

Surrendering to love on ‘Adore Life’, Savages have grown into one of the most vital bands around.

29th January 2016

The bands who’ll define this year’s festival season

With Foals taking the final step to headline superstardom, we look at the other bands set to own this summer.

29th January 2016

Tracks: Rihanna, Katy B, & More

DIY writers pick out the biggest and best new songs from the last seven days.

29th January 2016

Pop out on the road with Sun Club

The Baltimore crew recently headed to Europe with Hinds, and then took a few snaps for us along the way.

29th January 2016

Animal Collective: “It’s not like we wrote songs about sniffing glue”

In the new issue of DIY, the warped experimentalists discuss new album ‘Painting With’.

28th January 2016

Foals will finally cement their place at the top as they headline Reading and Leeds

The most important British band in a generation have more than their fair share of naysayers. The August Bank Holiday weekend is their chance to silence them.

28th January 2016

Vampire Weekend’s second chapter starts now

Despite Rostam Batmanglij’s departure, the band are anything but down and out.

28th January 2016

Kanye, Rihanna and the power of rumours

The majority of music’s biggest releases are surrounded by rumours more than ever before. But is this the work of enthusiastic fans, or the big names themselves?

27th January 2016