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 »
Yes yes! Come here for your freshly heated musical pasties! Queue up in an alphabetised orderly line like here: DRY THE RIVER – New Ceremony Tom accidentally left this on the Listening Post from last week and loads of people rated it in their top 5 again – even though it already made the Fresh more »
BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end on 2 April 2012. It started out as a single 120 minute show that went out every Saturday night from midnight (technically Sunday morning). In June 2008 it was expanded to two more »
Don’t be deceived by their cute, retro-throwback name. Ninetails are not a band stuck in the past. Since arriving unannounced onto the Liverpool live circuit in October last year, Ed, Jordan, Phil and Jake have set about tearing up shows, turning heads and notching up some impressive support slots with the likes of Errors, Three more »
Video from my workshop at the 2012 BBC Introducing Masterclass at Abbey Road on the psychology of songwriting. My biggest problem on the day was that a shuttle bus from Maida Vale was delayed, so a lot of people booked for the session didn’t make it. Whether you’re playing a gig or giving a talk more »
Q: I’ve recently finished an album which is about to be released and I’d love your opinion. Could I send you a copy? A: Could you do us a favour and recommend your two favourite tracks to my show via tinyurl.com/recommendmusic – that way they’ll get logged and the whole programme team will be able more »
“Would an artist only let people see half a canvas then expect them to buy the painting?” Jonny Taylor tweeted this morning: “One of my very best mates @edsheeran released his Album ‘+‘ today!! It’s a great day for UK music!! Go buy it now!! #nothingbutlove”. I’ve loved Ed Sheeran’s songwriting, stagecraft, hard work ethic and more »
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 more »
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could see an artist’s entire tour history or a list of all the gigs that a legendary venue has ever hosted. Two years ago, Ian Hogarth, Pete Smith, and Michelle You founded songkick.com with the goal of building the world’s definitive live music resource. They’ve since amassed data on more »
On the BBC Introducing show at 6 Music, we don’t care about fancy packaging or press releases: the only thing that counts is what comes out of the speakers. But it takes five times longer to unpack, load, play & eject a CD than it does to listen to the same track online. So if more »
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