Last week, at rather short notice, I decided to stream my recording of TPN Rock - possible because I record the show as if it was live, playing and listening to all the music in real time. It’s not that difficult to do, just another cable from the recording MiniDisc (which takes the output from [...]

Okay, get your diaries out, this is important. The Leith FM internet simulcast servers are up and running. But before I throw the big switch and start pumping the FM signal out over the internet waves, I need to know that it can handle a significant number of listeners. And the easiest way to do [...]

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Edinburgh and Durham, 30th October 2006 – Iain Foulds, the man behind the Unsigned Rock Podcast, is the latest signing to The Podcast Network. Taking the chair to host the Monday and Thursday shows on the TPN Rock show, Foulds brings a strong following from his previous show of audience and bands
Having started [...]

Koln, Germany 26 May 2006 - Podcast Day 2006 (www.podcastday2006.com) served as the official invasion of podcasting into the German Media market and C.C. Chapman and Ewan Spence were both on hand to help lead the charge.
Take one part TPN Rock (http://rock.thepodcastnetwork.com/), one part Accident Hash (http://www.accidenthash.com/), and some of the best new music in [...]

Those of you who listened to TPN Rock #43 this week will have heard the story of Charles Lee during the first track. I’m happy to hear that Lee is now safely backin America after his incarceration in China, and one of his first interviews is now online.

For those of you not familair with the concept of The Long Tail, coined by Chris Anderson, he “argued that products that are in low demand or have low sales volume can collectively make up a market share that rivals or exceeds the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, if the store or distribution channel [...]

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 [...]

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,” [...]

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 [...]

Now I wasn’t going to say anything here beyond I’ve added teh links to TPN Rock #33, but the number of emails and comments that came in is something worth pointiing out to everyone. You all want to know about the bands and where to find them. To me that’s great, because there’s every chance [...]