Bob Vylan: “This album is a lot more inspiring and hopeful”
We catch up with the powerful punk duo ahead of the release of their empowering new LP, ‘Humble As The Sun’.
27th February 2024
From The Magazine
SPIDER: “What feels authentic to me is telling [haters] to go fuck themselves”
Meet the fun but fearless artist, dead-set on creating more space for Black, female creatives in alternative music.
26th February 2024
Rachel Chinouriri: “I hope listeners feel a weight lifted off their shoulders”
Excavating trauma through the medium of indie-pop earworms, the London singer’s debut is set to be a multi-faceted, star-making turn.
23rd February 2024
MGMT: A Golden Age
With a new generation of listeners tuned into their next moves, MGMT are relishing the moment with an album — ‘Loss Of Life’ — that looks for the light amongst the world’s darkness.
22nd February 2024
Remi Wolf: “I will always just do what I want; I don’t think I will ever conform”
Striding out onto the arenas of the world in support of musical juggernauts Paramore and Olivia Rodrigo, Remi is roadtesting an ambitious second record in equally massive fashion.
20th February 2024
serpentwithfeet: Let’s Get Physical
An album that prioritises intimacy and human sensation, ‘GRIP’ finds serpentwithfeet simultaneously softer and stronger than ever.
19th February 2024
Lambrini Girls: “It’s about making people question themselves — I wanna piss some people off”
The modern successors to X‑Ray Spex, Lambrini Girls are on a mission to exorcise society’s demons, one mosh pit at a time.
16th February 2024
Lime Garden: Perfect Harmony
Four mates whose fully-bonded friendship has allowed their band to blossom and evolve, on Lime Garden’s debut album ‘One More Thing’, no ideas are off limits.
14th February 2024
Letting Off Steam: IDLES
Featuring love songs, crooning and production credits from Nigel Godrich, ‘TANGK’ is perhaps IDLES’ biggest curveball yet. For LP5, say Joe Talbot and Mark Bowen, they just wanted “to be the sun”.
13th February 2024
Crawlers: Strength In Numbers
After a dizzying few years of viral hits, sold out tours and huge festival spots, Liverpool’s Crawlers are finally ready to dive headlong into their ambitious, heady next chapter. It’s time to join them for the ride.
8th February 2024
Holly Macve: “I’ve always been scared by the passing of time, but now I’m embracing it”
With her star on the rise, we talk to Holly Macve about how she met Lana, the suburban house that inspired it all, and living in between wall-to-wall Elvis memorabilia.
2nd February 2024
A Feast For The Senses: The Last Dinner Party
Having cut their teeth as the capital’s worst kept word-of-mouth secret, The Last Dinner Party provided one of last year’s defining musical moments when they unveiled the gauntlet-dropping rock opera of ‘Nothing Matters’. Now, with the arrival of their debut album, they’re proving that, in 2024, maximalism reigns supreme.
31st January 2024
The Last Dinner Party are the cover stars of DIY’s February 2024 issue!
Our first issue of the new year also features Crawlers, IDLES, Yard Act, Remi Wolf and loads more.
29th January 2024
Gossip: Power Surge
Returning with a new single and album — this year’s ‘Real Power’ — that marks their first as a band since 2012, Gossip are injecting a super-charged shot of big-hearted humanity into the world once more…
5th January 2024
Class of 2024: Gretel Hänlyn
Pushing her witty, gothic storytelling into evermore adventurous territory with each release, the West London singer is striving for originality above all.
22nd December 2023
Class of 2024: Heartworms
Cheltenham’s Jojo Orme is creating arresting, emotional collages using gothic post-punk soundscapes and her theatrical spoken word delivery.
21st December 2023
Class of 2024: Antony Szmierek
Armed with spoken word songs that celebrate the beauty in the everyday, the Manchester poet is ticking off career milestones seemingly by the minute.
20th December 2023
Class of 2024: Picture Parlour
Crashing into life with debut single ‘Norwegian Wood’ back in the peak of summer, Picture Parlour have had a rollercoaster 2023 full of hype-ridden highs and troll-fuelled troubles. Emerging with their heads more firmly in the game than ever, there’s little that can stop them now.
19th December 2023
Class of 2024: STONE
Liverpool’s next great guitar hopes, heading into their debut LP with raucous energy and creative hunger to spare.
18th December 2023
Class of 2024: Katie Gregson-Macleod
With a viral, life-changing hit in her back pocket, and a knack for writing witty but intimate vignettes of life and love, the Inverness singer is focussed on the long game.
17th December 2023
Class of 2024: METTE
A solo project with expansive ideas, METTE is the multimodal artist making existentialism exciting.
16th December 2023
Class of 2024: HotWax
Having honed a reputation as a must-see live band, HotWax are pushing forward as one of guitar music’s brightest new sparks.
15th December 2023
Class of 2024: Divorce
Penning evocative indie-country-punk-whatever explorations on the human condition, the Nottingham quartet have already got Self Esteem in their corner — it’s probably time to join her.
14th December 2023
Class of 2024: hemlocke springs
With this year’s debut EP ‘going… going… GONE!’, hemlocke springs has firmly bid farewell to normality and stepped into a world of offbeat technicolour performance.
13th December 2023