The Recommender

THE BBC 6MUSIC BLOG AWARDS 2012

You don’t just have to be a reader of The Recommender these days, you can also listen to us discussing music on the radio. Over the last couple of years our editor, Mike, has been welcomed into a range of studios to commentate on new music, including the likes of Juice FM, Hype Machine Radio, BBC South, a number of podcasts and on America’s National Public Radio, but one station that’s had us regularly on air is BBC 6Music.

As we find ourselves in the middle of this year’s awards season the bloggers are also getting their say. This month BBC 6Music has asked a handful of premium music websites from the UK to select and host a category for their inaugural BBC 6Music Blog Awards. Each music site selects a category and because it’s entirely up to us you aren’t going to find any ‘Best Album‘, or ‘Best Single‘ selections, this is aiming a little more left-of-centre and should prove all the more interesting for it.

The ceremony will take place on Friday, on BBC 6Music, from 7pm, with Tom Robinson as your Master of Ceremonies. We’re offering up the nominations and we ask all of our followers, either via Twitter, or by leaving a comment on the relevant post (see our very next post for all the nominees), to cast your vote for the winners. Tom will then announce the results.

You can follow us on Twitter here. Please use the hashtag #Blog6Music and make sure you @The_Recommender in that tweet for them to be counted. Or simply state who you want to win in our category by leaving your vote in our comments on that nominations post.

The music sites involved are:

Best Tease of the Last 12 Months – (The Recommender)
Tomorrow’s Cult Artist Today – (The Quietus)
Must See New Band for Summer 2012 – (Drowned in Sound)
Most Genre Defying Artist – (One For the People)
Unsung Hero – (Never Enough Notes)
The Writes Songs Joni Mitchell Would be Proud Of – (For Folk’s Sake)
The Album of the Year that you Never, Ever, Skipped a Track on. Ever – (SKOA)
Best Free Download Album – (The 405)
‘Superstar DJ’ in the Making – (Data Transmission)

Our category, ‘Best Tease Of The Last 12 Months‘, will open in the next post we upload, so look out for that next. You can then view the nominations and start considering your votes. Good luck and don’t forget to tune into the station and get on Twitter this Friday to hear the results. #Blog6Music. (MB)