It’s that time of year again – it’s the return of the Thrash Hits Download Festival splash page for 2012! All of our Download coverage from across the entire weekend will be linked to on this here post, so make sure you bookmark it as it’s all you’re going to need. That means individual band coverage in the form of photos and setlists, as well as reviews of each day’s highlights, every scandalous rumour and dirty bit of gossip that we overhear, and every outrageous photo of muddy debauchery that our photographers can get their lenses on.
La Dispute

La Dispute is an American post-hardcore band from Grand Rapids, Michigan, formed in 2004. The current lineup is vocalist Jordan Dreyer, drummer Brad Vander Lugt, guitarist Chad Morgan-Sterenberg, guitarist Corey Stroffolino and bass guitarist Adam Vass. With a firm passion for the concept of music and art as a medium for making new friends, La Dispute makes music that is both artistically, technically, and emotionally engaging in hopes of establishing legitimate connections with any and all interested people Read more on Last.fm
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Download Festival 2012: La Dispute @ Pepsi Max Stage – Sunday, 10 June 2012
June 10th, 2012
We know that photo makes it look like Jordan Dreyer from La Dispute’s head is exploding, but it’s just a trick of the light. We high-five’d him earlier and can confirm his head is still all in one piece. [Read more →]
Album: La Dispute – Wildlife
October 6th, 2011
La Dispute
Wildlife
No Sleep Records
03 October 2011
by Alex Andrews
“Honesty is the best policy.” If ever there was a man to live that very sentiment, it’s La Dispute’s Jordan Dreyer. Yet almost as soon as he makes his entrance, Dreyer derails his train of thought to make an excuse for his idiosyncratic openness. “Not sure why I’m even writing this,” he confesses. “But I guess it feels right. It sort of feels like I have to – like an exorcism.” Even without the images of spinning heads and projectile vomiting that the ‘e’ word conjures, you probably get the idea that Wildlife isn’t exactly one to be filed under ‘easy listening.’ [Read more →]
Photos & Live: Hevy Festival 2011 – Sunday, 07 August 2011
August 11th, 2011
They’ve done it. They’ve survived. Tomas Doyle and Ben Gibson have made it through to the other side of Hevy Festival 2011. Let’s see what they got up to on the third and final day of the festival….