Blog posts by year and monthAugust 2012
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Reading and Leeds - help pick the Ultimate Reading and Leeds Playlist
This weekend, over 150,000 people will make the annual pilgrimage to Reading and Leeds Festival to see the likes of The Cure, At The Drive In and Foo Fighters headline what is one of Britain's best loved bank holiday musical traditions. Over the past two decades a trip to the festival has b...
#KarenO6Music - how you put together the Ultimate Karen O Playlist
The story which got us most excited in the Now Playing offices this week was news of the Frankenweenie soundtrack - Tim Burton's latest film which features the likes of Robert Smith and the delectable Karen O. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwomen wrote and recorded Strange Love especially for the ...
A quick snippet of Karen O's brand new track for Tim Burton's 'Frankenweenie'.
This Sunday the final hour of Now Playing is all about Karen O because of the news which broke surrounding her involvement in the Frankenweenie soundtrack - which also features the likes of Robert Smith from The Cure and Passion Pit. Well, we're going to have the world exclusive from the movie...
#KarenO6Music - Help us pick the Ultimate Karen O Playlist
This week we found out Karen O was to appear on a star-studded soundtrack for the latest Tim Burton movie, Frankenweenie, alongside Robert Smith, Passion Pit and Flaming Lips which got us thinking, do we need a better excuse to celebrate this fantastic vocal talent? Born in South Korea to a K...
#Beck6Music - help pick the Ultimate Beck Playlist
Beck has caught the imagination of the music world this week by announcing that his new album won't be an App or a 'virtual' concept but instead will be a book of sheet music. The 'album' entitled Song Reader will be released in December and consist of 20 unreleased tunes by Mr Hansen on printed...
#Jamaica6Music - help pick the Ultimate Jamaican Playlist
On Monday Jamaica will celebrate it's 50th year of independence, and we at Now Playing would like you to help us honour the vast array of music the small Caribbean island has given rise to. Throughout August, BBC 6 Music and 1Xtra will have programmes dedicated to the nation which despite bei...
