Indie Rock Survivors DIIV Bring Shoegaze for the Revolution
Politics tamfitronics Only a day after Cardi B made headlines for declaring she would not be voting in this year’s presidential election because she doesn’t support U.S. involvement in foreign wars and doesn’t “fuck with” Joe Biden or Donald TrumpI am on a Zoom call with four activist-minded musicians who, it turns out, don’t disagree with the rapper. The gentlemen of DIIV know their politics and are, one and all, hard progressives. Leftists with not much use for squishy moderates. “None of us are neoliberals,” guitarist Andrew Bailey firmly asserts, before signing on to the idea that mainstream Democrats and Republicans are equally bad. “At the moment, yeah,” he says. “Because there’s only one economic philosophy on the ballot! And the fact that the people who actually have power right now are the people putting...
