There’s a new BBC Music Showcase of my favourite performances from the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury 2011 online here. For more details on each artist – plus links to their own websites – see the list below. You can also hear audio of these tracks in my BBC Introducing show this coming Sunday morning [...]
Dear Tom After reading your ” how to send cds to radio stations” which I found a great help, I wanted to write and ask if you would listen to some of my music. I have just released an album of Urban Folk on iTunes and Amazon and am trying to promote it. Though it [...]
Last night during NowPlaying@6Music the fine blogger and friend of our show Andy Von Pip tweeted: “I saw Three Trapped Tigers live last week. I thought I was seeing Tigers That Talked & as such I was incredibly confused”. The band Tigers That Talked themselves weren’t surprised: “Haha” they tweeted back “we’ve had a silent [...]
For the last 50 years music radio has basically been a shop window for the music industry to advertise and promote its products – and our new friday night show NowPlaying@6Music reperesents a small step away from that model. All the tunes we’re playing on the show are sourced from public conversations with our listeners [...]
This Friday (April 8th) will be our first-ever edition of Now Playing @6Music – hurrah! And we’re going to need the help of g Music listeners to decide on a playlist – which we’ll base around one of this week’s major music news stories. Obviously the first thing for us all to thrash out will [...]
The independent radio production company Somethin’ Else have been commissioned to create a brand new cross-platform project for BBC 6 Music, fusing music with digital content. The commission – called Now Playing @6Music – will consist of a weekly radio show hosted by Tom Robinson, airing the most shared, recommended and discussed music online and [...]
from Audio AntiHero Records “How to make the best of a dying industry despite being a shy and unremarkable fellow: The Jamie Halliday Story.” I run Audio Antihero Records, Specialists in Commercial Suicide: (Nosferatu D2/Benjamin Shaw/Jack Hayter) and I was kindly invited by Tom Robinson to write a guest blog about running an independent label. [...]
Really interesting interview with Joi Ito in last Sunday’s Observer: “I’m not sure about the idea that information is the same as a thing – so if you give it away, you don’t have it anymore. A banana is worth a dollar, you give it away and you don’t have it anymore. But that’s a [...]
The great bluesman and broadcaster Alexis Korner died in 1984 – at the age of 54 – having helped shape the course of postwar popular music. From the late 50s to the early 80s he mentored and inspired the young musicians who would later form the Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Cream, Manfred Mann, Free, Led [...]
Thanks to the seminal Northampton post-punk outfit Coil for providing this press cutting from Smash Hits dated around Oct/Nov 1980. Their song “Motor Industry” was a particular favourite at the time, hence its appearance in this list which is posted among the photos on their MySpace page. Alas the UK motor industry no longer inhabits [...]
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