The inaugural SilverVox Film + Music Festival welcomes DIIV – the Brooklyn alternative-shoegaze-rock band founded by Zachary Cole Smith – who will provide direct support at The Weinberg Center on Saturday, June 20, 2026. As a bonus, the festival will also screen the band’s film Boiled Alive on June 19. The festival runs June 18–21, 2026, across the theaters, venues, and streets of the City of Frederick.
Zachary Cole Smith founded Brooklyn’s DIIV in 2011 as a solo bedroom project that quickly expanded into one of indie rock’s most critically celebrated acts and defined what guitar music can feel like in the 21st century. Their 2012 debut Oshin — shimmering, woozy, and endlessly layered — became an instant touchstone of the shoegaze revival. 2016’s Is the Is Are pushed deeper and darker, while their 2019 follow up Deceiver was heavier still.
Their 2024 album Frog in Boiling Water was four years in the making – and their most ambitious and emotionally complex work yet: a record about endurance, about staying in the slowly heating water of right now, about finding your way through anyway. And after opening the American leg of Depeche Mode’s 2023 Momento Mori world tour at arenas like Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center, SilverVox Film+Music Festival offers a rare chance to catch their layered, hypnotic sound up close in an intimate 1,143 seat historic theater. As a bonus, SilverVox will also be screening their film ‘Boiled Alive’ on June 19th.