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 ...

And yet, different. It’s not just that DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith now sports two-tone locks, his familiar bleached blond hair newly offset by long dark roots. He still favors a loose, button-down shirt ...

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 ...

Two days before they’re due to play the first date of a headlining theater tour, the members of the rock band Diiv are sitting around a picnic table in the parking lot of a Burbank rehearsal studio, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DIIV just released their terrific fourth album Frog in Boiling Water (read our review) which pulls influence from all manner of early-’90s alt-rock and lands right as the current shoegaze revival is ...

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 ...