While reporting our DIIV cover story a couple years back, I learned that frontman Z. Cole Smith and his girlfriend Sky Ferreira are friendly with Cat Power -- perhaps they met when they all played an Elliott Smith tribute concert in 2013? -- and Smith and Ferreira have previously covered Cat Power's "Nude As The News" together. At a recent SiriusXM session, DIIV dusted off that cover, turning into a multi-guitar acoustic piece in the style of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged. They also did an acoustic version of Is The Is Are standout "Under The Sun." Watch both performances below.
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Is The Is Are is out now on Captured Tracks.
