Zachary Cole Smith exhales cigarette smoke and smiles. We’re in an alleyway somewhere in East London during his first visit to the city in three years, trying to figure out just how he managed to ...

DIIV are well-versed in playful tension. It’s a major feature of Frog in Boiling Water, their terrific new album that teeters between fuzzed-out, anti-capitalist rage and harrowing apathy. As a group, ...

Earlier this year, after canceling a European tour, DIIV frontman Zachary Cole Smith checked himself into rehab, writing on Instagram that “i’ve taken this road way past the point of sanity and fucked ...

Despite forming more than a decade ago, indie-rock aficionados are just getting to know New York City-based band Diiv (pronounced dive). The four members that make up the band’s arsenal – Zachary Cole ...

Diffuser.fm recently got a hold of DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith and picked his brain on a number of topics, ranging from summer festivals to touring to a collaboration with Sky Ferreira. Check out the ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 27: Musician Zachary Cole Smith of DIIV performs onstage during FYF Fest 2016 at Los Angeles Sports Arena on August 27, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter ...

On their third LP Deceiver, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Los-Angeles band DIIV leaned more toward the heavier side of the shoegaze spectrum. Where tracks on their latest album, 2016’s Is The Is Are, featured ...

There’s a great American tradition of New York being a welcoming port and FADER teamed up with Converse’s new Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn to further it. Once a month, we’ll be welcoming touring ...

Four years before DIIV played its first show, Zachary Cole Smith moved into an apartment with a girl he barely knew. They shared a bedroom in Brownsville, a mostly un-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood ...

For most of his life, Zachary Cole Smith has provoked strong reactions from people. The yellow-haired 31-year-old remembers that even as a kid, his fourth-grade teacher saw him as an irritant.

DIIV interview: “I was looking for an easy solution to addiction. I found out, there’s not one” The last time DIIV released an album, in 2016, touring it forced them to implode, suffocating underneath ...