Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2012
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#6Music2012 - Help pick the Ultimate 2012 Playlist
We've had a pretty amazing 2012 at BBC 6 Music - everyone from Blur to Primal Scream, through Kindness and ending with The Specials have played for us live at Maida Vale; Gilles Peterson and Edith Bowman joined the team; and well, we were named Best Station at the Sony Awards. But you, the ...
#Strummer6Music - help pick the Ultimate Joe Strummer Playlist
An inspiration to a whole generation of musicians and music fans, Joe Strummer was truly a renaissance man; punk, film score composer, actor and even BBC broadcaster. Ten years on and Strummer's star burns as brightly as ever, from the charity set up in his name - Strummerville - to a host o...
2012 UK Music Blog Zeitgeist
We can reveal AlunaGeorge have been the most written about artist on UK music blogs this year - thanks to data compiled by Hype Machine. After looking at 137-sites ranging from 20 Jazz Funk Greats to The Von Pip Musical Express, Abeano and Too Many Sebastians, the Your Drums, Your Love duo hav...
Help BBC 6 Music make some Ultimate End of Year Lists
At the end of the year there's one thing which dominates the online music world - lists - and over the next few weeks at Now Playing @6Music we are going to do a series of list-based shows which we need your help with. 1. #Blog6Music - Hype Machine 2012 UK Blog Zeitgeist (December 16) Hype Mach...
#Specials6Music - help pick the Ultimate Specials Playlist
On Wednesday December 12 The Specials join Steve Lamacq at our world famous Maida Vale studios for a very err…special live session full of festive cheer. To celebrate such a legendary band gracing 6 Music's airwaves, we thought we thought what better time to ask you to put together the Ultimat...
