Gaz Coombes: “I feel like I’m flying by the seat of my pants”
A long way on from Supergrass, Gaz Coombes is racing ahead with his own work thanks to ‘Matador’. David Zammitt finds a man in the heat of a bullfight.
2nd January 2015
Features
BOOTS’ guide to his top tracks of 2014
After a whirlwind year of Beyonce and Run The Jewels collaborations, along with a solo mixtape, here’s BOOTS’ guide to his favourite tracks from this year.
28th December 2014
Dear Santa… Love Wolf Alice
Ahead of the festivities, we’ve asked bands to share their letters to Father Christmas. Here’s Theo from Wolf Alice with the band’s hopes for the New Year.
24th December 2014
Dear Santa… Love Superfood
Ahead of the festivities, we’ve asked bands to share their letters to Father Christmas. Here’s Emily from Superfood, with her band hopes for the New Year.
24th December 2014
Dear Santa… Love Kero Kero Bonito
Ahead of the festivities, we’ve asked bands to share their letters to Father Christmas. Here’s Kero Kero Bonito with their hopes for the New Year.
24th December 2014
Dear Santa… Love Wild Beasts
Ahead of the festivities, we’ve asked bands to share their letters to Father Christmas. Here’s Hayden from Wild Beasts, with his band hopes for the New Year.
24th December 2014
Dear Santa… Love Panda Bear
Ahead of the festivities, we’ve asked bands to share their letters to Father Christmas. Here’s Panda Bear with his hopes for the New Year.
24th December 2014
Tracks-mas: The Christmas Edition
Putting on their festive hats, the DIY writers pick out their favourite Christmas tracks.
24th December 2014
Stocking Killers: Ranking The Killers’ Christmas songs
With the yuletide season in full swing, Kyle MacNeill’s put together a definitive list of The Killers’ festive efforts.
23rd December 2014
Christmas with Los Campesinos!
Ross Jones perches by the tree with Gareth Campesinos! to all things festive, including why he wants the France ’98 version of Monopoly for Xmas.
23rd December 2014
Santa’s Naughty and Nice List
He’s been totting up the coal-counts — here’s Father Christmas’ verdict on this year’s batch of musical antics.
22nd December 2014
Christmas Memories with Frank Iero
The former My Chemical Romance guitarist tells us about one of his childhood Christmases.
22nd December 2014
Kero Kero Bonito: 15 Best Christmas MIDIs Saved From Geocities
Multilingual N64 enthusiasts Kero Kero Bonito have made us a festive midi-mix of salvaged gems from GeoCities.
22nd December 2014
The Perfect Christmas Charity Single
Euan L Davidson’s not impressed with Bono’s latest charity tinkerings, so he’s come up with a much better line-up.
21st December 2014
The Great Big DIY Christmas Gift Guide
Making a list and checking it twice? We’ve got the music related gifts covered for xmas.
20th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: The year in music [20 - 11]
Albums, tracks, live performances, funny tweets and fierce rants — all count in The DIY List, our definitive rundown of who and what made our 2014.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: Bombay Bicycle Club have their finest year yet
They’ve been electric, acoustic, sample-happy and now, Bombay Bicycle Club are going global.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: Wild Beasts talk dog t-shirts and playing The O2
As is tradition, Hayden Thorpe and co. have had the opposite of an ordinary year.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: Paramore go monumental
Between heading out on cruises and headlining Reading and Leeds, it’s been a huge year for the trio.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: The War on Drugs’ staggering breakthrough year
Adam Granduciel’s always been surprised by success, none more so than in 2014.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: The year in music [10 - 1]
Albums, tracks, live performances, funny tweets and fierce rants — all count in The DIY List, our definitive rundown of who and what made our 2014.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: The year St. Vincent took over
Topping The DIY List 2014, Annie Clark has had a sensational year, from the release of her game-changing S/T album onwards.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: The brilliant beginnings of George Ezra’s bright career
One of the UK’s biggest breakthroughs, 2014’s seen George Ezra go beyond the #petan in-jokes of his early days.
19th December 2014
The DIY List 2014: Alvvays and forever
Every UK gig they’ve played has been packed to the rafters, and in July they released one of the albums of the year: Toronto five-piece Alvvays reflect on a mad 2014.
19th December 2014
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.