November 15, 2011 – 1:23 pm
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 [...]
September 12, 2011 – 10:03 am
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]