Stack chats with Loud and Quiet about being a free music magazine
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of chats with the editors of some of his favourite music magazines, each sharing some insights from the year that was and their favourite thing they read in 2011. Here Steve chats with Stuart Stubbs, editor of Loud and Quiet...

Keith Richards' book LIfe has got to be the best music-related reading i did this year.
Worst gigs
The Guardian's article "The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows" was amusing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/04/musicians-worst-gigs
Favourite interview this year: A Quietus Field Trip With Aidan Moffat, UFO Hunter
http://thequietus.com/articles/07022-aidan-moffat-ufo-hunter