Zachary Cole Smith never said Deceiver was a personal moniker, but it fits the narrative around DIIV‘s new album. After the band’s acclaimed second album, Is The Is Are, released in 2016, Smith ...

Zachary Cole Smith is the leader and primary songwriter of the shoegaze revival band DIIV. Originally conceived by Smith as a solo project, DIIV is now a completely integrated four-piece group.

Brooklyn indie rockers DIIV have shared the lumbering and brutally honest new song “Taker” off their upcoming album, Deceiver, out October 4th via Captured Tracks. “Taker” recalls classic grunge-era ...

DIIV start their fall tour, in support of new album Deceiver, tonight in Las Vegas and they then head to Lake Perris, CA for the Desert Daze festival on Friday. The tour has them out with Store Front ...

DIIV is that indie rock band every indie rock fan would claim as their favorite band at some point, believing they are the only one that knows this emerging hot band. Signed on to the independent ...

After releasing Deceiver in the autumn of 2019, DIIV’s music had become a “soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis.” Vocalist Zachary Cole Smith calls that era ...

Today, DIIV are back with their third album, Deceiver, an LP that finds the nu-gazers plunging into their most shadowy realm yet. Just ahead of its release, the band recently swung by the FADER office ...

DIIV established themselves as a 2010s indie favorite on the strength of albums like Oshin and Is The Is Are. The band closed out that decade with their third album, 2019’s Deceiver, and now we’re a ...

DIIV frontman Zachary Smith openly struggles with sobriety. From the beginning of “Horsehead,” the first track on DIIV’s third album Deceiver, Smith admits to wanting to “throw it all away” after ...

DIIV is that indie rock band every indie rock fan would claim as their favorite band at some point, believing they are the only one that knows this emerging hot band. Signed on to the independent ...