Our readers' Fresh Faves are reviewed this week by Team Freshnet's Massimo Zeppetelli... Woah, where did this sun come from!? Thank you to everyone who spent cold evenings and wet days listening to all of the amazing tracks that were sent through this week. Here are the 11 most voted for, ranging from math-rock to sparse rock: BRONAGH – I’m His Hailing from Belfast and…
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Top tunes from SIXTYFOURS, THIS BOY WONDERS, ALANA HENDERSON, BENJAMIN MASON, BUZZARD LOPE, SEFTEL, MARK WYNN, TALK IN COLOUR, THE SHALLOWS, THUMPERS, WILSEN, CHAOS BOX, PARTPANDA, RHODES, THE D-TALES and ZEN DEATH SQUAD. Every Sunday night/Monday morning on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2-3am you can hear a selection of my favourite new tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader in an hour-long music mixtape. Some…
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An Alternative Playlist of tracks that have caught my fancy in our dropbox over recent weeks. The fact is that there's far more interesting music being made than than we can possibly fit on our Listening Post - and even my BBC Introducing Mixtape only features an hour of music every week. So here's a bonus 90 minutes of uninterrupted quality listening - carefully sequenced…
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THIS WEEK: BOBBY WOTNOT Bobby Wotnot is an electronic musician/producer/remixer based in St Ives, Cornwall. It's fair to say I have known Bobby as part of the online music community we both frequent for a good - what - five years or so? We have yet to meet face-to-face but it's an enduring example of the power of internet that we have managed to maintain…
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Our Fresh Faves are reviewed this week by Jim Craigen from AlternativeFriday.com. Although it was a bumper week for discovering new music, discovering anything about the artists who made it proved a lot harder. Time and again Jim found himself wishing bands would read our advice on How To Write A Band Biog... Thirty excellent and varied tracks made it into the Listening Post at…
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Top tunes from GUNNING FOR TAMAR, TANAOU, ERICA NOCKALLS, THE HOLY ORDERS, WOODEN HORSE, MAR KEL THE BADBELLY, TO BE FRANK, COURTS, BON-BON, HARTS, KAL LAVELLE, EUAN LYNN, SO WHAT ROBOT, LUMIN BELLS, THE ST PIERRE SNAKE INVASION, GRANDFATHER BIRDS, LA PETITE MORT and KID KIN Every Sunday night/Monday morning on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2-3am you can hear a selection of my favourite…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK:PAUL MOSLEY Paul Mosley is a musician/composer & so much more based in London, Leeds and Hartlepool. I first heard Paul's new album ' A Chattering of Birds' a few weeks ago and was instantly smitten.It is truly a fantastic album & is full of glorious songs,I haven't liked an album as much as this one in ages-Folkwit Records are on a mega roll atm,delivering…
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This week’s Fresh Faves were chosen by genuine readers of our Listening Post over the weekend and are reviewed here by Team Freshnet member Simon Poole from Silent Radio: They say laughter is the best medicine, and it's a good point, but in my books, music is even better. Being from Salford and being a Manchester United fan it's been quite a sad week, but…
Read MoreEvery Sunday night/Monday morning on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2-3am you can hear a selection of my favourite new tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader in an hour-long music mixtape. Some of the tunes are recommended by BBC friends and colleagues, others are handpicked by me from our inbox here at Fresh On The Net. Each of these mixtapes is available free when the…
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Would You Let A Poet Drive You To Work?
Guest rant by Robin Millar Robin is a musician who has conquered blindness to become a world famous record producer with over 150 gold, silver and platinum discs to his credit - not to mention 55 million record sales. He was made a CBE in the 2010 Birthday Honours. He has contributed this post to us at Fresh On The Net - questioning the modern…
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