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News: DIIV reveal headline shows for Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide for February 2027

Brooklyn shoegaze favourites DIIV are heading back to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide for headline shows, bringing their new album ZIRP! to Laneway Festival. And with experimental pop producer A. G. Cook behind…

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News: Laneway Festival 2027 lineup is here

Laneway Festival has always had a knack for catching artists at exactly the right moment. Over the years, its stages have hosted names on the cusp of becoming considerably bigger…

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Track: DIIV share new single ‘Kid’ ahead of fifth album ‘ZIRP!’

DIIV have released ‘Kid’, the second track from their forthcoming fifth album ‘ZIRP!’, due October 30 via Fantasy Recordings. Following previous single ‘The Fountain’, the new track offers another look…

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Track: DIIV Announce ZIRP! And Unveil New Single ‘The Fountain’

DIIV have officially unveiled their fifth studio album, ZIRP!, arriving 30 October via Fantasy Records, alongside its lead single ‘The Fountain’. After teasing fans with a mysterious hotline number sent by mail last week, the…

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Live Review & Gallery: DIIV’s ‘Frog in Boiling Water’ Tour Brings Beautiful, Glorious Grit to Vivid – Eora Land/Sydney, 13.06.25

Touring ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, their first album in five years, DIIV brought their thick, slow-dripping sound to life with a set that doubled as a collage of cult consumerism,…

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Track & Video: DIIV Confront Hope and Loss Amidst Californian Wildfire Aftermath With New Release ‘Return of Youth’ + UK/EU/AUS Tour Dates

A year after ‘Frog in Boiling Water‘, DIIV return with their first new release – ‘Return of Youth‘, a quietly devastating single that trades widescreen collapse for something far more…

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News: Carriageworks Unveils Killer Local-Heavy Line-Up for Vivid Sydney 2025

Carriageworks is turning up the heat for Vivid 2025 with a genre-jumping lineup of local legends and global icons

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Track: Brooklyn shoegazers DIIV herald new album with title track Frog in Boiling Water

DIIV, those purveyors of fine shoegaze since 2011, have graced us with a new track that feels like a hazy daydream wrapped in a sugar-coated melancholy. Their latest single, released…

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Track & News: What’s DIIV Up To? What We (Think We) Know and What Remains a Mystery as They Drop Title Track for Upcoming Album ‘Frog in Boiling Water’

If you haven’t been following closely, DIIV —Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman, and Zachary Cole Smith—have announced their fourth album, ‘Frog in Boiling Water’, which will be released on…

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Live Review: DIIV / Bdrmm – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London 12.03.2024

By Henry Groves Although there are 2 months until the release of their 4th studio album ‘Frog in Boiling Water’, the shoegaze icons were back in the UK, showing off…

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