DIIV announces 2027 headline World Tour + shares new single & music video "Dare Me" + 'ZIRP!' out this Friday

DIIV SHARES NEW SINGLE + MUSIC VIDEO “DARE ME”  ANNOUNCES HEADLINE WORLD TOUR KICKING OFF NEXT YEAR ZIRP! OUT THIS FRIDAY VIA FANTASY RECORDINGS

DIIV by Louie Kovatch “Dare Me”  LISTEN: https://ffm.to/diiv-zirp WATCH: https://youtu.be/fyWb2Phz35w ZIRP! PRE-ORDER / SAVE: https://ffm.to/diiv-zirp   What the press is saying about DIIV and ZIRP! so far:  “a crystalline clarity to it that defies genre conventions” Stereogum Album of the Week “balances DIIV’s familiar haze with an anthemic immediacy” SPIN “DIIV is pioneering ‘The New Alternative’ movement” FLAUNT "the most mainstream-aligned, contemporary pop DIIV have ever sounded" Paste Magazine (October 28, 2026) - Leading up to the release of their album ZIRP! this Friday, DIIV shares final album single “Dare Me,” which premiered as BBC Radio 1’s “Hottest Record” and arrives with a music video directed by Louie Kovatch where we see the band in their now signature business-wear in a vacant office space performing the track. ZIRP! includes the previously shared singles “Trillions,” “Kid,” and “The Fountain.” DIIV recently sat with Paste Magazine to discuss ZIRP!, working with A. G. Cook, and more. Stereogum also hailed ZIRP! their “Album of the Week,” where they stated “ZIRP! really does feel like a quantum leap. It’s the most stylish, dynamic, endlessly replayable album of DIIV’s career, animated by emotional currents that feel destined to strike a nerve. Buy up as many shares in this band as you can.”   Additionally, DIIV announces their headline World Tour today. Across the 47-date run, DIIV will bring their energized live show to festivals in Australia and Japan, a full run across North American and across Europe and United Kingdom. Presales begin tomorrow and general on sale is this Friday, October 30th at 10am local. This November, DIIV will perform at Pitchfork Music Festival in both Paris and London along with Sonic City Festival in Beldian. Full live dates below.  This is The New Alternative: a new genre for the 21st century. More specifically: a new genre for music’s optimized VC-funded super deluxe remixed AI-enhanced algorithmically perfected wild west 2020s, where a million streams is great, a billion even better, and a trillion well within reach. On their fifth album ZIRP!, DIIV emphatically and ecstatically embrace the underground pedigree and the pop instinct that have anchored the band like magnetic poles for the better part of their career—smashing them together in pursuit of a sound that pre-empts any notion that Zachary Cole Smith, Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield and Ben Newman have ever been playing between worlds. Put more simply, on ZIRP! DIIV answer the simple questions that so many bands can’t: What would it mean to grow up? And glow up, too?     For as long as they’ve been making music, DIIV have been victims of a world without the vocabulary to describe their willingness to braid the harshness of genres like shoegaze (on 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water) and grunge (2019’s Deceiver) with mellifluous and memorable pop melody. Over the years, the world has caught up with them, with artists like Slayyyter, Eartheater and Turnstile forcing old-guard gatekeepers to find new ways to describe this gleeful disregard for old-fashioned scene designations and genre tags. With ZIRP! – and their embrace of The New Alternative – DIIV lock in on a name for the universe they’ve been chasing for all these years, and a sound that represents the apotheosis of that universe.  Produced by British pop wizard A. G. Cook (Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX) – a chief architect of our current post-category future – ZIRP!, named for the zero interest rate policies that drew us into a world of failed startups and turned us all into atomised “users,” expands on the themes of Frog In Boiling Water with a newfound lightness. Here, Palantir, societal breakdown and streaming’s endless hamster wheel are all fodder for rich, sparkling pop songs: Album opener and lead single “The Fountain” pairs the sprawl and squall of DIIV records past with a jolting rhythmic guitar section that has arena-filling potential. Throughout, the band is zeroing in on its punchiest, most memorable melodies to date, each new internal hook and tossed-off earworm indicative of a band more than ready to make good on its ability to play in the mainstream. When DIIV initially approached Cook, the producer says, “it was in the spirit of destroying & rebuilding their demos, Screamadelica-style, into a finished product, but that hybrid, half-remix approach felt completely wrong to me.” Instead, he became a professor of DIIV studies, attending the band’s shows and forming a unified theory of where the band needed to go next. “I became a bit obsessed with their live sound, and insisted on recording live drums before most of the songs were even finished. We spent a lot of time recording intricate guitar parts with specific guitar pedals, and as little time as possible doing anything on a computer, at least by my standards,” he says. “After a few rounds of that, ZIRP! emerged as a concept, and a sort of utopian, dystopian mantra. For me it became a vehicle to push the band into new territory.”    Check out “Dare Me” and pre-order / save ZIRP! above, see upcoming live dates and full album details below.

ZIRP! cover artwork ZIRP!  DIIV October 30th, 2026 1. The Fountain 2. Kid 3. When The Glow Came For Us 4. Dare Me 5. The Crash 6. Trillions 7. Us Against You 8. Evangelizer 9. Underground 10. My Star 11. Idiot In The Sky Upcoming Live Dates 11/2 - Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Music Festival 11/6 - Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City Festival 11/7 - London, UK @ Pitchfork Music Festival 11/9 - Kingston, UK @ Circuit 2027 WORLD TOUR AUS / ASIA 2/12 - Sydney, AU @ Laneway Festival 2/13 - Brisbane, AU @ Laneway Festival 2/19 - Melbourne, AU @ Laneway Festival 2/21 - Auckland, NZ @ Laneway Festival 2/24 - Tokyo, JP@ KANDA SQUARE HALL 2/25 - Tokyo, JP @ KANDA SQUARE HALL NORTH AMERICA 4/7 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater 4/8 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre 4/9 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall 4/12 - Detroit, MI @ El Club 4/13 - Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall 4/15 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair 4/16 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza 4/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw 4/18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 4/20 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring 4/21 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle 4/22 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel 4/23 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse 4/25 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs) 4/26 - Dallas, TX @ AM/FM Backyard 4/27 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk 4/30 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre 5/2 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 5/7 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory 5/8 - Santa Barbara, CA @ SOhO Restaurant & Music Club 5/9 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre 5/10 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's 5/12 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall 5/13 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox 5/15 - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club 5/16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall 5/17 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre 5/20 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren 5/21 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory at North Park EUROPE / UK  5/31 - Lille, FR @ L’Aéronef 6/1 - Paris, FR @ L'Olympia 6/2 - Rennes, FR @ Antipode 6/3 - Lyon, FR @ Transbordeur 6/3-6/5 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound 6/13 - Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret 6/14 - Hamburg, DE @ Gruenspan 6/16 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega 6/17 - Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt 6/18 - Prague, CZ @ Roxy 6/19 - Vienna, AT @ Flex 6/20 - Munich, DE @ Nachtwerk 6/21 - Köln, DE @ Kantine 6/22 - Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik 6/24 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk 6/25 - Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall 6/26 - Glasgow, UK @ QMU 6/27 - Dublin, IE @ Opium 6/29 - Bristol, UK @ The Prospect Building 6/30 - London, UK @ Troxy Connect with DIIV: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | TikTok

Guided By Voices Announce New Album via Rolling Stone, Share "Designed For Use" Single | 'Speculation and Gossip' Out January 22nd Via GBV Inc Records

Guided By Voices Announce New Album, Share "Designed For Use" Single via Rolling Stone Speculation and Gossip Out January 22nd Via GBV Inc Records

Photo Credit: Sarah Zade Pollard PRE-SAVE/PRE-ORDER: Guided By Voices - Speculation and Gossip Pre-Order LISTEN & SHARE: Guided By Voices - "Designed For Use" YouTube Guided By Voices today have announced their new album Speculation and Gossip, due out January 22nd via GBV Inc Records. The announcement is accompanied by the release of buzzing, angular album single "Designed For Use," which premiered today via Rolling Stone–read the feature with Robert Pollard HERE. The track is an electrifying, euphoric three minute joyride, marking another potent step forward for the indie rock legends. "I was looking at the label on a record from the 50's or 60's or something and I noticed written around the edge was 'Designed for use on most stereophonic equipment,'" Robert Pollard explains of the track. "I thought it sounded interesting and decided to turn it into a song. A statement about my own versatility and endurance in writing songs and making records for the last 45 years. Or it could apply to any human experience. It's an anthem..." Speculation and Gossip, the band's 45th album, follows their previous LP Crawlspace Of The Pantheon (2026). Crawlspace... and its singles earned praise and support from Rolling Stone, NPR Music, Stereogum, Paste Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, FLOOD Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, PopMatters, AllMusic, Northern Transmissions, and many more.  "Designed For Use" by Guided By Voices is out today via GBV Inc. Records. Guided By Voices - "Designed For Use" SPECULATION AND GOSSIP - TRACK LISTING My Cartoon Satan and the New Temptations  Kicking Circles Path Of The Razor Designed For Use Repenthouse Light Through the Window That's the Kind of Guy I Am 63 Cry Babies Answer Asparagus Mr Skull Otherworldly Bathroom Fixtures Stupid Question All Things Decided Town of My Day Solar Systems GUIDED BY VOICES LINKS Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify | Apple Music

BRUCE GILBERT - Long overdue release of his soundtrack to Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair's film, London Orbital - Listen to an excerpt - Out 27 Nov on The Hotel

BRUCE GILBERT - LONDON ORBITAL

THE HOTEL ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF LONG OVERDUE RELEASE OF GILBERT’S SOUNDTRACK TO CHRIS PETIT & IAIN SINCLAIR’S FILM - OUT 27 NOVEMBER 2026

LISTEN TO AN EXCERPT HERE

[Bruce Gilbert, credit Keith de Mendonca]

The Hotel have announced details of the first-time edition of London Orbital, Bruce Gilbert’s visionary sound work for the 2002 film of the same name directed by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair. The vinyl edition is out on 27 November 2026.

London Orbital is a film about the M25, the circular motorway that surrounds London in its outer edges, commissioned by Channel 4 and loosely based on Iain Sinclair’s 2000 novel, which saw the author walk the entire length of the Orbital motorway over a two-year period. Chris Petit took this concept further by electing to drive around the motorway, using nascent digital techniques and CCTV footage to evoke the atmospherics, beauty and unusually terrifying nature of the endless motorway.

In London Orbital, the circular motorway deployed as a metaphor for the outer orbits of the mind, driving around the motorway as an exercise in forward projection, and a quest for transcendental boredom and extreme impersonality. 

The Hotel presents London Orbital not as a soundtrack record, but as a sound film. An evocative listening experience that is just as if not more hallucinogenic and hypnagogic as the theatrical viewing experience. The album’s accompanying booklet carries extensive stills from the film alongside newly-commissioned essays by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair.

Pre-order the album HERE

Credits

Bruce Gilbert – London Orbital

Music and sounds by Bruce Gilbert

Writings and voiceover by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair

Edited for television by Emma Matthews

Edited for vinyl by Henry Cyer

Essays by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair

Commissioned by The Hotel

Artwork by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair

Design by Jon Wozencroft

Mastered by Kinn

Executive produced by Henry Cyer

Distribution by Cargo

Copyright Illuminations Television Ltd under exclusive licence to The Hotel

With the support of Arts Council England

The Hotel

TH05, 2026

The Hotel / Bandcamp / Instagram

Jane Wiedlin (Go-Gos, Rock'n'Roll Hall of Famer) announces book signings for 'TMI: Memoirs of a Go-Go' in November

Jane Wiedlin announces book signing events for TMI: Memoirs of a Go-Go Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame inductee, The Go-Gos member and solo artist

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and The Go-Gos cofounder Jane Wiedlin announces the first round of book signing events surrounding the release of her forthcoming tell-all tome TMI: Memoirs of a Go-Go. The book releases via Hachette Book Group / Da Capo Press on November 10th. All current signing events are listed below, with additional dates announcing soon. Jane Wiedlin was born in Wisconsin and moved to California’s infamous San Fernando Valley, home of Valley Girls, at age six. She was an avid music fan from that moment on, exposed to the greatest rock and pop songs of the 1960s by her older siblings. In high school she was enamored with the glitter rock scene ie David Bowie, Marc Bolan, etc. At the time glitter/glam rock was a small musical movement in the US with equal parts music, clothing and attitude.  Jane attended Los Angeles Trade Tech College, where she learned the nuts and bolts of the fashion industry, with the aspirations of becoming a designer. In 1976 she discovered the punk rock scene in nearby Hollywood. Most of the kids in the scene were former glitter rockers, the punk scene basically following that same format of music, clothing and attitude. It attracted rebels, misfits, malcontents and artists. Jane started designing punk clothes, learned to play guitar and started writing songs — something she could never have dreamed of as a girl. In 1978 she formed the Go-Go’s, and with their poppy punk sound, the band grew popular up and down the West Coast. In 1981 the Go-Go’s signed to indie label IRS Records, helmed by the legendary Miles Copeland. Against all odds, after a year of release, the album, Beauty and the Beat, went to #1 on the Billboard charts. When the Go-Go’s disbanded in 1985, Jane started her solo career, recording five albums. The band reformed in the 90s and have been together ever since. Jane’s new autobiography, TMI, Memoirs of a Go-Go is out November 10th, and a new album of protest song covers, called ¡ I PROTEST! produced by Jane, is shortly to follow. Jane is a loudmouth activist, both for animals, women and politics. She spends her free time saving dogs, writing, reading and napping. JANE WIEDLIN - BOOK SIGNINGS 2026: 11/09 West Hollywood, CA - Book Soup 11/12 Malibu, CA - Private event 11/14 San Francisco, CA - The Booksmith 11/16 Plainville, MA - An Unlikely Story 11/19 Washington, DC - Politics & Prose 12/08 Palm Springs, CA - Cultural Center

Artist: Jane Wiedlin Album: I Protest! Label: Candy Shop Release Date: February 2027 01. Uprising (Muse)  02. Machine Gun (Yungblud) 03.  I Thought I Was An Atheist (ShyScarf) 04. Not See (Bryan Andrews) 05. Barefoot and Pregnant (Gwen Levey & The Breakdown)  06. The Doll People (Sofia Isella) 07. Feed The Machine (Poor Man’s Poison) 08. American Jesus (Bad Religion) 09. Not Mad Enough (Smith & Myers)  10. Low (Cracker)

Everything But The Girl Announce New Album 'Blue Reservoir' with Official Video for "Young and Dumb

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM BLUE RESERVOIR FOR RELEASE IN FEBRUARY 2027 FIRST SINGLE AND VIDEO “YOUNG AND DUMB”  OUT NOW October 28, 2027 – Blue Reservoir is the eleventh and latest studio album from Everything But The Girl - the best-selling UK duo formed in 1982 by singer-writer-musicians Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt - and will be released on Buzzin’ Fly through Virgin Music Group on February 19, 2027. First single “Young and Dumb” and accompanying music video (treatment by Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, directed by Edward Bishop) is out now. Watch the official video for “Young and Dumb” Pre-order Blue Reservoir Inspired by the pair’s unexpected and unconventional return to live performance in 2025 - a long-running sold-out residency (with thousands each night on the wait list) at Hackney’s intimate 300-capacity MOTH Club - the album sees the duo put aside the sharply-lit electronica of 2023’s acclaimed comeback album, Fuse, and lean into some of their foundational influences and ideas. “There was an intensity and simplicity to the MOTH shows that took us back to how we started out,” says Thorn. “Direct, rooted in guitar and voice, a few extra colors. We hadn’t been in that world for a long time and it just felt fresh and real.” Uplifted, Watt bought a Spanish nylon-string guitar in January 2026 to write and perform on. “It is the sound of so much of the music I first connected with growing up, and I’d never actually owned one. It became quite an emotional springboard for me. I found a voice I thought I’d lost.” The music came together in a creative burst in the first few weeks of 2026. If the results (nine written on guitar, one on piano) draw on Watt’s signature Latin-influenced lyricism, British folk-blues improvisation and song-driven storytelling, the lyrics (six by Thorn, three by Watt, one co-write) look forward and back through time, part-conversational, part-allusive, carried throughout by Thorn’s richly original autumnal voice, Watt’s soft counterpoint and the pair’s unadorned harmonies. The album of ten original songs was recorded largely live at RAK Studios in London over ten days in July 2026. Watt’s guitars - both nylon-strung rhythm and electric lead - are augmented by long-standing collaborators Rex Horan (double bass) and Evan Jenkins (drums). The percussionist is Fabio de Oliveira (Babo Moreno), son of Brazilian percussion legend Bosco de Oliveira - a central figure on Thorn and Watt’s influential debut album, Eden in 1984. The pair’s own son, Blake Watt (Family Stereo / Bella Union), part of the MOTH club line-up, guests on two songs. Additional overdubs (harmonium, celesta, tape loop atmospheres) were recorded by Watt at the duo’s home studio in north London. Blue Reservoir is written, arranged and produced by Everything But The Girl, and recorded and mixed by Bruno Ellingham - engineer on albums by the pair, both solo and as a duo, for over 15 years. Mastering is by Miles Showell at Abbey Road. Artwork by John Gilsenan at IWANT Design. Blue Reservoir: 1) Forward 2) Scala 3) Young and Dumb 4) Do What You Can 5) Christmas Gone 6) Courage Mon Brave 7) The Round and Round 8) Fork in the Road 9) Good Hope 10) The Great Unknown Website – Instagram – Facebook – Threads About Everything But The Girl Credit: Edward Bishop