Download your SXSW Music Highlights

While you could sit on the SXSW Music website and listen to all the bands there (or be pushed towards their MySpace pages), that’s a lot of music to listen to. With SXSW rapidly approaching you might not have the time to get through all the bands. But never fear, the web is here.
Simon [...]

TPN Rock: The Friday Rock Show #156

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It’s the first show of 2010, and after all the upheaval of the festive shows (and helping out the celebrations of CC Chapman’s five year podcasting anniversary) it’s back to the unsigned, unknown and unforgettable sounds that TPN Rock uncovers week in [...]

The Nokia X6 and Epic Music Phone Fail

So the Nokia X6 I have for review has already had a bit of a rough ride thanks to an unboxing video with Emu, but my look at the core function of the phone, how it works as a music device, has been pretty disappointing.
Yet again, the lack of joined up thinking from Nokia seems [...]

The TPN Rock / Accident Hash Christmas Switcheroo

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And now for something a little bit special. Just as I released this years TPN Rock Christmas Rocktacular, fellow podcaster  C. C. Chapman released his Holiday Special on Accident Hash. After listening to it (and spotting one or two tracks [...]

The TPN Rock Christmas Rocktacular 2009

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I have been looking forward to this show for some time now. For the third year, it’s time for a holiday special from TPN Rock. Yes, here we go with the Christmas Rocktacular for 2009.
Christmas music is a strange time for podcasters [...]

The Friday Rock Show #155

With Tantrum to Blind, Morningside, The Paper Scissors, Feral Children, The Devil Makes Three and Mike Borgia. Hosted by Ewan Spence

Music is the drug but will prohibition ever be over?

Spotted this as I bounced around the web this morning. It’s a section of an opinion piece for BBC News by John Taylor (kids, he was in Duran Duran) makes this observation.
I’m still buying copies of that first Roxy Music album, I’m almost embarrassed to say – import copies on premium vinyl, anniversary CD copies, [...]

TPN Rock: The Friday Rock Show #154

With Loaded Dice, Boo Boo Davis, Corrientes, A Band Called Quinn, Amplifico and Dynamic Systems. Hosted by Ewan Spence.

TPN Rock: The Friday Rock Show #153

With music from The hartes, nexus six, Maria Daines, Kirsten Dirable, Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags and One Fathom Down. Hosted by Ewan Spence.

21st Century Music by the Seat of the Pants

Now that’s how it should work!
A few years ago at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I came across a group of American folk singers who were performing "Woody Sez," a biography of Woody Guthrie. They were back this year again – which I found it as they bounced up to me at the Underbelly Press Launch [...]

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