Child’s Play: Superfood
Returning after three tumultuous years away, Superfood are back with ‘Bambino’, a vibrant, crate-digging delight. Getting there wasn’t always easy, but hard times led to the year’s best comeback.
9th November 2017
From The Magazine
Happy 10th Birthday, Chess Club!
With the influential London record label celebrating a decade of existence, we got some familiar faces — old and new — together for a trip down memory lane.
7th November 2017
First Class: Parcels
This Byron Bay quintet might not be pals of Postman Pat’s, but they still write some first class tunes.
30th October 2017
Star Baker: Julien Baker
Returning with second album ‘Turn Out The Lights’ and mingling with the darlings of the folk and punk scenes, Julien Baker is finding her voice and setting herself up for a long and fruitful career.
27th October 2017
Stay focused: Bully
Signing to Sub Pop for their brilliant new record ‘Losing’, Alicia Bognanno and Bully have found their home in more ways than one.
20th October 2017
Back from the Dead: Catholic Action
Recording Catholic Action’s debut album nearly ended the band before they’d really got started. Luckily, they made it through with the help of a fearless producer and a refusal to compromise.
19th October 2017
Kali Uchis: knows what she wants
Fusing her eclectic, scatter-genre pop with a punk ethos, Kali Uchis could well become as big as the huge names she has lining up to work with her. And, best of all, it’s all on her own terms.
16th October 2017
Making Weaves
Difficult second album? Hardly. A year on from their debut, the Canadian odd-pop wonders are back with even more genre-bending anthems and an emotionally open approach to songwriting.
10th October 2017
The Cribs: Punk as F**k
After 15 years of going against the grain, safe to say The Cribs aren’t changing any time soon…
8th October 2017
Lightning Strike: Waxahatchee
Four albums in and with a turbulent, vital new album under her belt, Katie Crutchfield’s finally feeling comfortable in her shoes as one of indie rock’s best songwriters.
7th October 2017
Laughing with fangs: St Vincent
With her fourth record, St Vincent stepped up her pink staircase to a whole new realm. New album ‘MASSEDUCTION’ — a dissection of life’s paradoxes — cements her as a once in a generation artist.
6th October 2017
Sløtface: get ur freak on
Releasing a debut that’s playful, gritty and socially-conscious, Sløtface are one of Europe’s best new bands. We meet them in Oslo as they ready ‘Try Not To Freak Out’ to be unleashed on the world.
15th September 2017
The Only Way Is Essex: Rat Boy
Collaborating with Damon’n’Graham and finding himself sampled on the biggest album of the year, Rat Boy is releasing his debut album this month, and already looking years into the future.
8th September 2017
Game for a laugh: Matt Maltese
A South London troubadour putting wit back into the solo white male.
6th September 2017
Wolf Alice: DIY’s September 2017 cover stars revealed!
The new issue — free from stockists — is out this Friday (8th September), and also features The Horrors, Sløtface, Superfood, Death From Above, Orlando Weeks and more.
5th September 2017
In the Studio with Royal Blood
After a whirlwind few years constantly spent on the road, the Worthing duo decided to take stock, rediscover their passion for playing and then – and only then — dive headfirst into album number two.
2nd September 2017
Just like (In)heaven
Leaders of a pack of hungry, fresh new British bands, INHEAVEN’s debut album sees them stride out as torchbearers of fuzzy, full-of-heart rock’n’roll.
30th August 2017
PVRIS is burning
Crashing to a halt after a relentless spell touring the world, PVRIS found themselves confronting darkness head on. Their second album exorcises all those demons.
29th August 2017
Here’s… The Orielles!
Having met at a party as kids, The Orielles have been collectively accumulating a treasure trove of influences ever since. Now, they’re ready to show them to the world…
16th August 2017
Painting in vivid colour: Grizzly Bear
Five years after the release of last album ‘Shields’, Grizzly Bear have come together again not to rewrite the musical history books, but to cement their place in them.
14th August 2017
Clean Living: The War on Drugs
The War on Drugs may be gearing up to play their biggest UK shows yet but, as Joe Goggins discovers, their new-found success doesn’t rest easy with Adam Granduciel.
11th August 2017
Islands in the stream: Alvvays
Embracing watery isolation, and getting pecked by a few ducks in the process, Alvvays have succeeded in the tall task of equalling their gobsmackingly brilliant debut album.
9th August 2017
North to the future: ALASKALASKA
A genre-melting six-piece making brilliant art-pop out of South London.
8th August 2017
Kasabian: Forever having the last laugh
Much loved and misunderstood in equal measures, Kasabian are still the band your mother warned you about.
4th August 2017