When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to select the rising bands which have connected them, someone wrote a long time ago. Or, something close to that. Here's what…   Read Story »

Yesterday, Portland's MusicFestNW wrapped up five days of concerts at over a dozen venues throughout the city. Among the acts who performed were Passion Pit, Beirut, Girl Talk, Dinosaur Jr., Flying…   Read Story »

The music-video universe took a bit of a week off this week; Labor Day, I guess, will do that. But there was still plenty of good stuff out this week; the relative scarcity just meant that I didn't…   Read Story »

In the new video for DIIV's "Doused," frontman Z. Cole Smith tends to an army of toy soldiers before realizing that, in his trance-like fixation, he's late for a DIIV gig. The gig is at 285 Kent,…   Read Story »

Earlier this year, the Brooklyn band DIIV released Oshin, their well-received debut album of sparkling, assured dreampop. And now they've brought in Memory Tapes, a man known for a very different…   Read Story »

Brooklyn indie rockers DIIV -- FKA Dive -- have been picking up momentum in the last year or so, thanks to the strength of dark, soaring rockers like "How Long Have You Known" and "Doused" as well as…   Read Story »

Last night was Hype Machine's Fast Forward League Night, which was put on by the Hype dudes themselves as well as Consequence Of Sound, Gorilla Vs. Bear, I Guess I'm Floating, Awesome Tapes From…   Read Story »

Way the hell back in April, when they were still known as Dive, we posted the Brooklyn band and Beach Fossils side project DIIV's whooshing track "How Long Have You Known?" In the brand-new video for…   Read Story »

In a few weeks, we are helping out on a show at Williamsburg's Brooklyn Bowl organized by the folks at Hype Machine. A number of sites are involved, actually -- Gorilla Vs. Bear, I Guess I’m…   Read Story »

So, Brooklyn indie rockers Dive changed their name to DIIV ("The word was an element of what inspired the project in its genesis, but we've outgrown the name and its associations," Cole Smith told…   Read Story »