Twenty-twelve was a big year for DiS. From Jan 1st through Dec 31st there were 32,786,312 pageviews on DiS, and our Google Analytics say that there were 8,508,628 visits to the site. There was an average of 490k unique users on the site each month, and every day the equivalent of a stadium crowd arrived on DiS to have a mooch around our reviews and discussions. ... So what were you all reading in 2012? »
Hopefully this long list of names and releases gives you a clue about the individuals behind the screens at DiS. I've always thought of the site as being an aggregator of individual opinions, rather than some compromised coherent voice with a contrarian tone. It's near impossible to get music fans to agree on very much, which is why we do our album of the year list a little differently to most sites. We don't just tot up the votes and say what the most popular release was, as music to us isn't a popularity contest. Votes quickly become political, rather than personal and I hate the idea of mob rule. »
Oh dear it is Friday, and oh woe is me do I need a day off, but before I disappear into a bucket of ale, here is the best of what hit my (the editor of DiS') inbox this week...»
The best of DiS' inbox this week... »
There is a lot of music in this round-up, partly because I haven't done one for a while, but mostly because there is a lot of great music around at the minute (IMHO, etc). This column is basically a round-up of the best of my inbox and social media feeds... »
DiS is compiling a playlist of 101 songs to act as an introduction to Electronic music. We're doing this, partly because we can, but mostly to celebrate the launch of a new magazine named Electronic. They've given us a big sack of Electronic records for one of you to win, just by taking part in our playlist folly and sharing your knowledge...»
We have a put together an exclusive playlist for the new PIAS Spotify app and a competition to win a bag stuffed full of PIAS records and goodies, but first a few thoughts..»
DiS' editor shares six of his/DiS' favourite albums of the first half of 2012...plus this includes full streams of all of his record picks..._»
Ooooh, I'm ready for the week-end...a weekend of chatting about magazines in a pop-up shop and then sobbing about a 93rd minute penalty from Italia against Ing-gland. Anyway, you may wish to skip all that and toe-tap and jiggle along to some streaming music (we've got Spotify and a YouTube playlist by Bear in Heaven), some free downloads (the new Cat Power track and a podcast with Johnny Jewel) or gawp at some music videos (including an exclusive interview with Polica), if that sounds good, drag your mouse this way, as DiS' editor has the contents of your monitor and stereo for this weekend sorted... »
Here's our first YouTube playlist of songs and videos we've been loving recently, plus a few things that would feature on a DiS Greatest Hits playlist...»
The soundtrack to that brilliant movie Drive is to be released on vinyl in the UK, and we have some copies to give away.»
DiS' editor picks five songs (well, one is an entire album) to fling you giddy and grinning into the weekend and beyond....»
Five videos picked by DiS' editor to fill that void in your Friday... »
Spotifriday is dead! And it's been replaced by a February Highlights thread (and monthly Spotify playlist) and this, a new weekly feature in which DiS' editor shares his picks of the week, as a digest sort of thing... »
Anyone smell a cash in? Surely, surely not. But whatever the pong surrounding it, Disco Italia - Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985 is coming your way on June 23 via Strut»
What happened where this week»
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