DIIV staff up with Fred Durst for faux ‘SNL’ efficiency in ‘Brown Paper Bag’ video

DIIV have shared their newest single ‘Brown Paper Bag’ with a video that includes Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst.

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The band – comprised of Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman and Zachary Cole Smith – launched ‘Brown Paper Bag’ on Friday, February 15 because the lead single of their forthcoming LP ‘Frog In Boiling Water’. In the present day (February 26), they launched the monitor’s accompanying video.

The video sees Durst introduce DIIV as they play a faux Saturday Evening Dwell efficiency. In direction of the top of the efficiency, the ceiling collapses and the video ends with an advert for the band’s Soul-Net website.

DIIV teased the video this previous week by posting an announcement on their official Instagram account sharing that they have been set to carry out on Saturday Evening Dwell on February 26 which occurred to be a Monday.

Additionally they shared a video clip in the identical format as an ‘SNL’ promo video with Durst becoming a member of them saying: “I’m Fred Durst and I’m internet hosting Saturday Evening Lies this week with musical visitor DIIV.” He additionally commented on the publish saying: “It’s been a dream of mine to host SNL, particularly with a band as cozy as yours.”

The band’s fourth LP ‘Frog In Boiling Water’ is about for launch on Might 24 by way of Fantasy Data. You’ll be able to pre-order/pre-save it here.

It follows 2019’s ‘Deceiver‘. In a four-star evaluation of the album, NME shared: “It’s tempting to say that ‘Deceiver’ really excels at its heaviest, provided that these moments – the pitiless, piledriving refrain of ‘For The Responsible’; the heaving final gasp of suggestions that roars by ‘Acheron’ – are the report’s most memorable. Nevertheless it’s really the extra fragile moments on ‘Deceiver’ that in the end show to be probably the most emotionally resonant: see the unguarded manner wherein Smith sighs, as an example, “How are you right now?” on the hushed verse of ‘For The Responsible’. That is an album about rebuilding and, lastly, dealing with your self.”

Talking about ‘Frog In Boiling Water’ in a press launch, DIIV defined that each the title and the themes of the album, reference “The Boiling Frog” in Daniel Quinn’s The Story of B.

“If you happen to drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it’ll in fact frantically attempt to clamber out. However for those who place it gently in a pot of tepid water and switch the warmth on low, the frog will sink right into a tranquil stupor, precisely like one among us in a scorching tub, and earlier than lengthy, with a smile on its face, it’ll unresistingly enable itself to be boiled to loss of life,” mentioned the band.

They continued: “We perceive the metaphor to be one a couple of gradual, sick, and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society below end-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we’ve perhaps come to simply accept as regular. That’s the boiling water and we’re the frogs. The album is kind of a group of snapshots from varied angles of our fashionable situation which we predict highlights what this collapse seems like and, extra notably, what it appears like.”

Elsewhere, DIIV have additionally introduced a string of US, UK and EU tour dates. Subsequent month, the band will make their manner by Europe and the UK with stops in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, England and Eire. From there, the band will kick off their US leg of tour in June with stops in main cities similar to San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Orlando, Miami and Brooklyn.

Ticket pre-sales will start tomorrow, February 27 at 10am native time. Common ticket gross sales will start on Friday, March 1 at 10am native time. Take a look at the total checklist of dates beneath and visit here for UK tickets and here for US tickets.

DIIV 2024 UK, US and EU tour dates are:

MARCH
5 – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht, Netherlands
6- Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium
7 – Mojo Membership – Hamburg, Germany
8 – Huxley’s Neue Welt – Berlin, Germany
9 – Submit Tenebras Rock (PTR) – L’Usine – Geneva, Switzerland
10 – Le Trianon – Paris, France
12 – O2 Kentish City Discussion board – London
13 – New Century – Manchester
14 – Vicar Road – Dublin

JUNE
6 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
7 – San Francisco, CA- Regency Ballroom
8 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Buying and selling Submit
10 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
12 – Portland, OR – Revolution Corridor
13 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Corridor
14 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – Metro Music Corridor
16 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
18 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
19 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Corridor
20 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
21 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
23 – El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace
24 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
25 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
27 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
29 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre

JULY
15 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Switch
16 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
17 – Richmond, VA – The Nationwide
19 – Charleston, SC – The Music Farm
20 – Orlando, FL – Home of Blues
21 – Miami, FL – The Floor
23 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
25 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
27 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Corridor Ballroom
28 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
30 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Corridor
31 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre

AUGUST
2 – Toronto, ON – The Live performance Corridor
4 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga Music and Arts Competition
5 – Boston, MA – Royale
7 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount