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Producing music that combines shoegaze bliss with grunge catharsis, Brooklyn’s DIIV may be the task of Zachary Cole Smith. Given birth to in NY, Smith started playing acoustic guitar as a boy and became a member of a few rings during his college years, including one with guitarist Andrew Bailey. …

Chicago’s the Smith Westerns certainly are a music group looking for a few teenage kicks using their home-brewed combination of garage area, glam, and punk, plus they come across their youthful energy truthfully — non-e of the group associates had been old enough to get a beer if they released …