TPN Rock Again #002 - Urban Snake, Rise (MP3 5.30 mb 5 minutes 47 seconds)
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Looks like you all were either shocked into “oooh that’s nice” or you genuinely like the idea of Rock Again. Let meknow which it is either in the comments or by email (ewanspence at gmail dot com). Let’s see how [...]

Okay, this is for everyone who requested this ahead of Tuesday’s show. As well as the master feed that delivers every show (which up till now you’ve all been subscribing to), I’ve set up some additional feeds, one for TPN Rock Again on Tuesdays, and one for the main TPN Rock Show on a Friday.

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Nice article in todays’s Independent in the UK, about the rise of The Artic Monkeys to take the UK number one slot with their latest single. Finally a band has done what many have predicted would one day happen. An unsigned (or at least signed to an indie label) has hit the Top of the [...]

TPN Rock #35 - The British Invasion (MP3 25.8 mb 28 minutes 11 seconds)
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Time to show the world just how rocking the UK is right now. Sure we have Coldplay, but for every one of them there are, ooh, at least six reallly really good bands (every week) to blast your ears into submission [...]

To sum it up simlply, Sony have left themselves as exposed as they left every rootkit-installed PC user. Businessweek is now looking at the reaction from the artists that are signed to Sony-BMG and the fallout they are facing both in general terms of DRM, but specificall with First4Internet’s XCP Aurora method.
“This is serious business,” [...]

Scottish band Looper (www.looperama.com) are certainly earning their money - thanks to having their music featured in the film Vanilla Sky, and the new Xerox advert in the USA, the royalties (close to £500,000 so far) are allowingthe four piece to live off the proceeds of that one track for the last five years. And [...]

TPN Rock Again #001 - ADD, Maybe (MP3 6.02 mb 6 minutes 29 seconds)
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Hold on a moment, it’s not Friday? Why’s there some Rock in my podcast feed? Simple, it’s time for TPN Rock Again. We’ve been running for over six months now, and that means to sit through all the archived shows stand [...]

Please note that TPN Rock does not install a rootkit on your computer. We just give you an MP3 file every Friday of great music from unsigned, unknown and under-appreciated bands. We won’t hide anything on your hardware. You can trust us for your music and your peace of mind.

There’s so much going on with Record Companies that you never hear. Sure people have a rough idea about the money troubles that are out there (I mean, a quarter of a cent per 99 cent iTunes download is obviously good recompense for an artist), but destroying a band’s creativity is another.

Eventually, like soldiers coming [...]