This Monday 6 Music went mob-handed to the Sonys. There was Lammo and Lauren with their respective programme teams, station editor Paul Rodgers with Fergus Dudley and Mike Hanson, Adam & Joe with their producer James, Huey with producer Tom Whalley, and at the table next to us Shaun, Jools Holland and Moira Stewart were more »
See the full tracklisting for this week’s Introducing Mixtape on my BBC blog. After giving a keynote talk at Unconference in Leeds the other week – as part of the Live At Leeds festival – a number of musicians came and said hello to me afterwards. Many of them had demo CDs but almost all more »
Hello everyone. Please excuse me, but it’s time for a heartfelt personal moan Last week 70 people clicked on the Send Us A Track link on this blog and every single one of them, er, sent us a track. Every one of them will also have seen the above link saying: “UK artists: be sure more »
Animal Noisewere featured by Johnno in last week’s inaugural Prick & Ding feature. Their song Run Loose sounded pretty good and was enough to send me to the BBC Introducing Uploader – where their song Baddow (below) blew my socks off. It’s a wonderful piece of music – played from beginning to end with such fresh, more »
From: Claire Kennedy Date: 7 May 2012 11:59:11 GMT+01:00 To: Tom Robinson Subject: The Lights by Rebecca Mayes – please!!!! [no message) ———————————————————— From: Rebecca Mayes Date: 7 May 2012 12:17:26 GMT+01:00 To: Tom Robinson Subject: The Lights by Rebecca Mayes Dear Tom Robinson, My name is Rebecca Mayes, I’ve submitted a track to BBC more »
An early broadcast of of Tom Robinson’s Evening Sequence from the 6 Music studios – pic comes courtesy of a great 1932 photoset on Flickr tweeted by Jem Stone. Read more on the BBC’s 80th Anniversary of Broadcasting House.
By Charlotte Krol Guest blogger & Friend of Freshnet Yesterday BBC Radio 1 released figures from the BPI and Official Charts Company that show a 25% decrease in CD sales from 20.5 million in the first three months of 2011, to 15.3 million this year. Digital sales are instead increasing and account for almost more »
Just as a quick followup to last week’s Fresh Faves (Batch 7), Cole Salewicz from The Savage Nomads sent me a link to their new video for Tension In The Middle. If you have the opportunity, it’s worth cranking the resolution up to 1080p and watching this fullscreen on a fast broadband connection. Great atmospheric more »
According to Wikipedia New York’s Anti-Folk movement started in the early 1980s when a booker at Folk City told singer-songwriter Lach that his music was “too punk” for a gig there. Lach started an after-hours club of his own on the Lower East Side called The Fort – and since its opening coincided with the city’s Folk more »
My new Introducing Mixtape show goes out on 6 Music at 2-3am tonight Easter Sunday night (technically Easter Monday morning) and will then immediately be downloadable from 3am on my BBC 6 Music Downloads page. And once they’ve appeared on the mixtape, some tracks will also stand get played the following weekend on my new more »
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