One of my favorite bands by far is called DIIV. They are originally from Brooklyn, but moved to Los Angeles once their music career took off. I have seen them twice in concert-once in Brooklyn and once in Jersey City (and one of the times I had a concussion). My boyfriend was the one who told me about DIIV, as he has been into them for a long time. They can be classified as shoegaze/indie rock, and use some insane reverb on their songs. They used to post on SoundCloud, but once they became popular they began posting on Spotify/ITunes. Here is one of my favorite songs by them that they said they used to play in the basements of houses all the time before their career took off, Doused.
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