Tracks: Soccer Mommy, King Princess, Beabadoobee and more
It’s time for the biggest and best new music of the week.
25th March 2022
Features
Camp Cope: “I feel like I’m a channel for the universe to express something and I can’t help it”
Armed with a third album that’s the most “them” yet, Georgia Maq tells us all about ‘Running With The Hurricane’.
24th March 2022
What’s Going On With: mxmtoon
mxmtoon pushes the boundaries of her bedroom pop origins on new single “Mona Lisa’, and invites us into a bolder, more personal sound.
24th March 2022
Look Alive: Lily Moore
As we move ever closer to the inaugural edition of DIY Alive next month, we get a little better acquainted with bluesy Brighton singer — and our Sunday night headliner — Lily Moore:
23rd March 2022
In Perfect Balance: Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
On their bold new album “Topical Dancer’, Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul have become masters of their own musical Trojan Horse.
22nd March 2022
Kojey Radical: Dream Big
It’s been a long and bumpy road for Kojey Radical but, with long-awaited debut LP ‘Reason To Smile’, the multi-hyphenate Londoner is finally ready to come good on all the potential.
21st March 2022
VLURE: “We’ve always really wanted to burst the bubble of what a “post-punk’ band should sound like”
Meet the Glaswegian quintet rewriting the rulebook on post-punk, and giving it a good dose of club culture.
21st March 2022
Chrissi: “It’s not a script and there’s no facade there - it’s just 100% me”
Confessional songwriting and onstage bants by the bucketload, from the 20-year-old Londoner putting all of herself out there.
18th March 2022
Through The Wires: BODEGA
Idiosyncratic New York band BODEGA’s second album, “Broken Equipment’, offsets a healthy scepticism of technology with a distinctly human edge.
17th March 2022
Opening The Floodgates: Nilüfer Yanya
With a second album that drills down deeper into the core of her personality — as a musician, as a human and as a member of society — “PAINLESS’ finds Nil√ºfer Yanya opening up with ease.
16th March 2022
Grove: “The fluidity of a human being is viscous and doesn’t need to be contained in boxes”
Rising Bristol-based artist and producer Grove on their search for identity and how, sometimes, fulfilment is found by cultivating your own safe space.
15th March 2022
Rockin’ In The Free World: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard
Welsh wonders Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard have always embraced a hop back in the musical time machine, but on debut “Backhand Deals’ they’re straddling the past and present with a greater dexterity.
14th March 2022
Giddy Up! CMAT takes SXSW
We’re so excited, we’re already sweating into our cowboy boots. But even we’re not as hyped as Dublin’s premiere cowgirl CMAT…
11th March 2022
The Mysterines: Do You Wanna Be In Her Gang?
Leading her band through a drawn-out debut album process that was tumultuous at best, it’s lucky The Mysterines’ Lia Metcalfe seems the type to thrive within life’s rawer corners.
10th March 2022
Luna Li: “I want the Luna Li universe to be a place where people can feel accepted”
Embracing her dual loves of classical and rock music, Luna Li is armed with a debut album that celebrates her uniqueness — and sounds damn fine doing it.
10th March 2022
The Big Splash: Wet Leg
Wet Leg’s instant classic debut album arrives next month to prove that you really can believe the hype. DIY finds the pair clinging onto each other through the whirlwind career trajectory of dreams.
7th March 2022
Tracks: Jack White ft. Q-Tip, Wet Leg, Haim and more
The biggest and best of the week’s new music.
4th March 2022
Miso Extra: “”The Misoverse’ is a world I wish I had growing up”
Fusing her Japanese and English heritage into her own unique “Misoverse’, with only a handful of singles out in the world, Miso Extra is already stepping up as an inspiring new voice.
28th February 2022
The Neu Bulletin ( Momma, Deadletter, Emumclaw and more!)
DIY’s essential, weekly (ish) guide to the best new music.
25th February 2022
Tracks: Florence + The Machine, Mura Masa, Denzel Curry ft. slowthai and more
It’s our weekly round-up of the biggest and best new songs this week.
25th February 2022
Lola Young: “Everything at the moment that I fucking love is about girl power”
Meet the 21-year-old South Londoner injecting openness and honesty back into mainstream pop.
24th February 2022
Get To Know… King Hannah
Their debut album lands this Friday.
23rd February 2022
All The Small Things: Metronomy
New LP “Small World’ might mark Metronomy’s most pared-back work to date, but as Joe Mount enters his self-proclaimed “phase two’, he’s feeling more content than ever.
23rd February 2022
Albums of 2022: Bloc Party
Digging into their dark side, the London legends are back with a sixth album that explores the underbelly of the human psyche.
21st February 2022
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.