Kevin Bronson on May 23rd, 2017

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New York quintet DIIV not only gave an rousing performance Sunday night at the Regent Theater in support of their most recent album “Is The Is Are,” but frontman Zachary Cole Smith updated the crowd on his own well-being and confessed his baseball partisanship.

Before the band played the new song “Dopamine,” Smith, who entered rehab in February, told the crowd that he “stopped doing drugs 85 days ago” and that “if you need help there are people there to help you.” Later, he enthused, “How about those sports? Go Yankees!,” which earned a small cheer from the fellow New Yorkers in the room. Smith then said, “Yeah, no, go Dodgers” to a bigger response.

The band mixed songs from the new album with those from 2012’s “Oschin.” Included were “Under The Sun,” “Dust,” “Loose Ends,” “How Long Have You Known?,” “Human” and “Oshin (Subsume)” as the quintet played to a steady stream of crowd-surfers. The band ended its set with “Doused,” with Smith admitting they were going to “play the encore game.” After briefly standing off to the side, they returned to play “Wait.”

L.A. trio Tashaki Miyaki opened the night, followed by the Paranoyds.

Photos by Jessica Hanley