In Photos: Photographer's Favourite Images - 20 from 2012
We asked our photographers to send through their favourite music images, that they had taken in 2012. So here's twenty of them, in no particular order.»
In Depth
Corona Capital Festival: DiS does Mexico City
Last weekend (13th & 14th October), DiS made the long journey to Mexico City via New York for the third annual Corona Capital music festival since its conception in 2010. Featuring a mixture of internationally acclaimed acts such as Suede, New Order, Franz Ferdinand and Florence & The Machine alongside a selection of up-and-coming Mexican artists, this year's line-up bordered on the stellar side compared to many of its European counterparts. Here's what we had to say about our trans-Atlantic trek to North America...»
"So I jumped and landed on my head on some concrete" - DiS meets The Hives Pt.II
The concluding half of our in depth interview with The Hives sees us cover frontman Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's hospitalisation from concussion last year, bad Hives songs and Barely Legal.»
"We're punk rock aristocrats" - DiS meets The Hives Pt.I
The Hives are a rock and roll band. This much the Swedish five piece were very clear about when they sat down with DiS a fortnight ago in an opulent London hotel. What follows is both a revealing and hilarious insight into one of the few remaining loud and proud guitar bands.»
101 Nordic: A Northern Lights-lit Playlist
Breezy strings, doom-drenched death-metal, synth-pop, submerged harmonies, summery ukeleles and icy xylophones are - as this playlist attests - just some of the sounds of the Nordic region, compiled as part of Nordic Day to celebrate DiS curating a Nordic night tonight in London info.»
DiSmas: DiS Christmas release round-up...
Christmas is a-coming so we've taken a look at a selection of seasonal offerings from the likes of Glasvegas, The Raveonettes and lots lots more...sleigh bells at the ready.»
DiSband #4: The Hives
How can there be any way, in 2008, that four-chord garage punk can end up sounding anything other than stolen? Are The Hives still the best band in the world? Frontman and born performer 'Howlin' Pelle has the answers to DiS's questions»
The Hives: ninety six per cent perfect
Six years on since Alan McGee saw fit to unleash The Hives on an unsuspecting UK public with the gold-selling compilation Your New Favourite Band on his now-defunct Poptones label, the Swedish garage-punks have released a strong third album proper, Tyrannasaurus Hives, in 2004, and are back after a three-year hiatus with a new album, allegedly due in September. DiS speaks to guitarist Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem about perfect records and Maroon 5.»
Raz on The Raz @ Reading
Yeah, yeah yeah, Reading Festival. What’s the big deal, huh? Get filthy. Get tired. Get battered. Sing. Watch some bands. Great. It bloody well is, alright!?! Did you love it? Were you even there? I was.
N.B. To be read aloud in a Geordie accent
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