Unsigned Rock Podcast

Public holiday in the UK and it’s raining. So, a bit more of a laid back acoustic / folk rock show. Hope you like it

Some tracks by some fairly well-known artists such as Josh Woodward and The Cool Waters Band, along with bands + artists just picking up attention recently such as Ian Knapp, Monique Rhodes and Mossback.

Last chance to enter the Ampsex competition, very easy question to win their latest album ‘Original Sound Recordings’. Definately worth a shot, just listen to the podcast, head over to the Ampsex website and let me know the answer. Will be announcing the winner on the next podcast so check it out!

Tracks included in this podcast:

Ian Knapp Pieces of You Off the album ‘Into These Oceans’ Track kicks in at 0:03

Josh Woodward River Went Dry Track kicks in at 4:45

Monique Rhodes Under the Sun Off the album ‘Awakening’ Track kicks in at 12:21

Mossback Cold Wind Off the album ‘Mishmash’ Track kicks in at 16:37

The Cool Waters Band Hell or Highwater Off the album ‘One More One’ Track kicks in at 22:17

Back to a more rocked up podcast next time round, and also announcing the winner of the Ampsex competition, so make sure you enter it now or miss out on winning their latest album, ‘Original Sound Recordings’!

As always, leave me an audio comment, drop me an e-mail to let me know what you think, or leave a comment right here on the blog! Keep track of the new podcast by subscribing to the RSS feed in your favourite reader using the buttons on the right. Also, please vote for the Unsigned Rock Podcast on Podcast Alley to help me out, and tell all your friends about the show too!

Not quite the laid back, more acoustic show originally planned as I haven’t had a good couple of days, and ended up dropping my guitar Don’t worry, it lived to be played another day!

A couple of excellent tracks from some bands that had been in touch. Parker, from the UK have a track being played, as do Meg + Dia out of Utah, USA. They’ve got their new album coming out at the beginning of August so have a listen and see what you think.

Ampsex competition still running, very easy question - take your chance to win their latest album ‘Original Sound Recordings’. Only a few people have entered so far, so you’ll be in with a good chance of winning this excellent album!

Tracks included in this podcast:

Motion Soundtrack In the News Off the album ‘The Bridge’ Track kicks in at 0:01

Parker Take a Bow Track kicks in at 6:22

Ampsex Porno Movie Off the album ‘Original Sound Recordings’ Track kicks in at 12:35

Meg and Dia Monster Track kicks in at 17:02

Chemtrail Face Me Track kicks in at 21:10

I’ll be bringing out a slightly more laid back acoustic rock / folk rock show over the weekend - probably full of misery from the rain almost certain to arrive with it being a holiday weekend in the UK!

As always, leave me an audio comment, drop me an e-mail to let me know what you think, or leave a comment right here on the blog! Keep track of the new podcast by subscribing to the RSS feed in your favourite reader using the buttons on the right. Also, please vote for the Unsigned Rock Podcast on Podcast Alley to help me out, and tell all your friends about the show too!

Well, since moving to Libsyn less than 3 days ago, I’ve just broken 100 downloads of podcasts #4 + #5, almost in perfect split - 51 downloads of show #4 and 49 downloads of show #5. Not bad considering I’ve only been running the Unsigned Rock Podcast for less than 3 weeks! This shows good growth from the rough stats of the first three shows, giving 40+ average listeners overall. Good job I did move to Libsyn, otherwise that would be the bandwidth gone for this month! Let’s see if we can make it 100 in a couple of weeks by spreading the word and telling all your friends!

Big thanks to all those that have listened to the podcast and dropped me an e-mail to let me know what you think - keep them coming! Response to the Rohan interview has been positive, and the Chasing Red segment seems to have got people’s attention. Remember, the Ampsex competition will run for another week or two, so enter now for a chance to win their album ‘Original Sound Recordings’!

Thanks again for all those that have listened in! Hope you keep enjoying the show, and remember to vote for the podcast on Podcast Alley, send me an audio comment and keep track of the latest shows via the RSS feed!

A couple of tracks from Rohan’s latest album ‘Ask a Stupid Question’, and an interview with man himself! Very sound guy, knows exactly what he’s after and where’s going, with principals I agree with completely. You can also get a copy of his latest album for free through his MySpace page!

Ampsex competition still running, very easy question - take your chance to win their latest album ‘Original Sound Recordings’. Only a few people have entered so far, so you’ll be in with a good chance of winning this excellent album!

Got my first audio comment to play, along with talking about moving all the content to Libsyn for better handling of the podcast.

And sorry to ‘The Cartwheel Club‘ at the start of the show for fucking up and calling them ‘The Cathedral Club’!

Tracks included in this podcast:

The Cartwheel Club Song About You Track kicks in at 0:03

Rohan Songs Are Worse Off the album ‘Ask a Stupid Question’ Track kicks in at 4:11

Rohan 1943 Off the album ‘Ask a Stupid Question’ Track kicks in at 18:19

The Bulldogs In the End Off the album ‘The Subsonic Reel’ Track kicks in at 28:28

Probably won’t bring out another podcast until the end of the week, maybe Thursday or Friday, as I’ve now pushed out 2 shows in 3 days!

As always, leave me an audio comment (I’ve had one in, check out Kat on this podcast!), drop me an e-mail to let me know what you think, or leave a comment right here on the blog! Keep track of the new podcast by subscribing to the RSS feed in your favourite reader using the buttons on the right. Also, please vote for the Unsigned Rock Podcast on Podcast Alley to help me out, and tell all your friends about the show too!

After upgrading PodPress and moving to libsyn last night, it knocked the RSS feed on the head, meaning show #4 wasn’t being registered for those using podcatchers such as iTunes, Juice, iPodder, etc. to automatically download the podcasts. Direct downloads from the site here kept working.

Everything should be back up now and I think we’ll put that one down to teething problems! Thanks for those that let me know of the problem.

This was probably something I should have done from the start, but I wasn’t sure what kind of response I was going to get. When I’ve done the math, I’d hit my 10Gb bandwidth limit in under a week Whilst impressive, not very helpful, and there still seems a few niggly problems with the downloads from my webhost (Lycos).

I follow a number of podcasts powered by libsyn and it seems rock solid. The first 3 episodes I’m not moving across, as although you get unlimited bandwidth, you’re limited by disk space each month. They might move across in the future, but for now I’ve included a separate link for them - if you’re trying to get the first 3 episodes using the Feedburner feed it ain’t gonna work! Today’s podcast, show #4, and all future shows will work fine - there’s nothing you need to do!

Let me know if there’s any problems - it should “Just Work ™”!

A packed podcast!

Finally got hold of the audio commentary from Chasing Red straight from the studio last weekend - extracts for 2 brand new tracks to check out! Also playing Whitefish from their first album.

The Ampsex competition is announced, very easy question, and a chance to win their latest album ‘Original Sound Recordings’. Will be running this for a couple of weeks. Click the picture to the right to enter the competition!

Talking about Rohan’s interview lined up for tomorrow, and how MySpace is quickly becoming my best friend!

Tracks included in this podcast:

In Media Res Wise Investors Off the album ‘You Need This’ Track kicks in at 0:05

Chasing Red Whitefish Track kicks in at 7:38

Ampsex My Friend is a Punk Off the album ‘Original Sound Recordings’ Track kicks in at 13:20

Rohan Streets of Dublin Off the album ‘Ask a Stupid Question’ Track kicks in at 18:03

From Motion to Memory Verbal Drive-By Off the album ‘This Is the Secret, Just Shout It Out’ Track kicks in at 24:41

The interview with Rohan is lined up for tomorrow, so will bring another podcast out on Sunday to include that. Don’t forget to check out his latest album ‘Ask a Stupid Question’ and listen to some of this other tracks.

As always, leave me an audio comment (no-one has dared to yet, be the first!), drop me an e-mail to let me know what you think, or leave a comment right here on the blog! Keep track of the new podcast by subscribing to the RSS feed in your favourite reader using the buttons on the right. Also, please vote for the Unsigned Rock Podcast on Podcast Alley to help me out, and tell all your friends about the show too!

I’ve just had a stack of audio files through from Chasing Red, Carl quite rightly acknowledging Murhpy’s Law by e-mailing it through once the podcast was uploaded. There’s a couple of excellent extracts straight from the studio of tracks they were recording, including one song even their die-hard fans won’t have heard yet! Some nice audio commentary throughout from the guys too giving us a bit more of an insight.

I’ve also got an excellent artist called Rohan setup for an interview over Skype hopefully some tomorrow to coincide with his new album coming out on Friday. He’s got some awesome tunes, and a list of big-name artists he’s been around, so will get him to talk us through everything and play a couple of his tracks.

The Ampsex competition is pretty much sorted, with the prize being their latest album - ‘Original Sound Recordings’. The guys should have their audio recorded to announce how you can enter, and guess I’ll run this for a couple of weeks or so to give people plenty of time.

Oh, and I’ve got an excellent band from right up here in Newcastle to play!

Expect the next podcast out sometime on Friday evening - think the theme for the show will be “see how much fouldsy can cram in to one podcast!”, but it’ll all be worth the wait

An update from Chasing Red after their studio time over the weekend - didn’t manage to get their own audio commentary through just yet, but Carl e-mailed me through some stuff to tell you all about.

Also announcing our Ampsex competition to win a copy of their latest album - ‘Original Sound Recordings’. More info on that from Ricky soon! Check out their MySpace page for details of a show they’ve got coming up this weekend - if you’re in the San Francisco area go check it out!

Tracks included in this podcast:

Motion Soundtrack Self Made Off the album ‘The Bridge’ Track kicks in at 0:03

Chasing Red Lucky Lil Track kicks in at 5:18

Glow Stars Carolyn’s a Toad Off the album ‘Raised on Pong’ Track kicks in at 13:18

Ampsex Crazy Bitch Off the album ‘Original Sound Recordings’ Track kicks in at 17:44

Danko Jones Baby Hates Me Off the album ‘Sleep is the Enemy’ Track kicks in at 22:23

Next show I’ll announce how to enter the competition to win Amsex’s album ‘Original Sound Recordings’, so keep an eye out for that one - will probably be recording the next show in a couple of days. Fingers crossed, will get the audio commentary from Chasing Red too!

Got some other excellent new music lined up, including a couple of awesome tracks from some bands over here in the UK to balance out all the US + Canadian music that’s been stealing a lot of the play time!

As always, leave me an audio comment (no-one has dared to yet, be the first!), drop me an e-mail to let me know what you think, or leave a comment right here on the blog! Keep track of the new podcast by subscribing to the RSS feed in your favourite reader using the buttons on the right. Also, please vote for the Unsigned Rock Podcast on Podcast Alley to help me out, and tell all your friends about the show too!

Yes yes, it’s only been three days, but are you complaining?! As C.C. Chapman warned me, this becomes addictive

Out of the blue, The Ropes’ drummer, Fontana, got in touch saying he’d checked out the first show, and would I be interested in playing one of their tracks in an upcoming show? So, I kinda brought things forward since they were so keen and have a couple of tracks from them, along with some other wicked tunes!

Tracks included in this podcast:

Black Furies Rock City Crimewave Off the album ‘Death Trip Saturday Night’ Track kicks in at 0:03

The Ropes I Stand for Nothing Off the album ‘Kill Her Off’ Track kicks in at 4:27

The Ropes KIll Her Off Off the album ‘Kill Her Off’ Track kicks in at 8:36

Jack Tripper Evening Star Off the album ‘9 Easy Pieces’ Track kicks in at 12:23

Zamarro Lying to Myself Off the album ‘The Beast is On Your Track’ Track kicks in at 18:47

Reckon it’s a pretty good mix of music in there - leave me an audio comment or drop me an e-mail to let me know what you think, or leave a comment right here on the blog!

Chasing Red are lined up as a special in the next show, which should be out the start of next week. They’re taking time out whilst in the studio recording stuff for the new album to record us something!

Keep track of the new podcast by subscribing to the RSS feed in your favourite reader using the buttons on the right. Also, please vote for the Unsigned Rock Podcast on Podcast Alley to help me out, and tell all your friends about the show too!

Thanks for the e-mails letting me know what you thought of the first podcast, and it’s only been out a day! Keep them coming, and don’t forget you can also leave an audio message

But, iTunes support was sorted pretty quickly after I added it this afternoon! Click the button on the left to add the feed to iTunes, or use the button from the sidebar. Doesn’t seem to use any cover art at the moment, but will look into that.

Also, if you’re wanting to recommend the show (and please do!), I registered unsignedrockpodcast.com this afternoon as well, which hopefully will start point through to here within the next 24-48 hours so let people know the address - a bit easier to remember!

Roll up, roll up! Here’s you opportunity to be here from the start with the very first podcast! Download it now, or if you’re really wanting to live on the edge, try streaming it across the Internet though no apologies if it starts stuttering! Add the RSS feed to your podcast software to automatically receive the latest shows or hit one of the buttons on the right to add it to an online service you’re using - iTunes coming soon!

Tracks included in this podcast:

Coppermine Suffocating Off the album ‘Suffocating’ Track kicks in at 0:04

Ezra Thomas Holiday Off the album ‘Promise Land’ Track kicks in at 6:40

Dakota In the Bar Tonight Off the album ‘Guess What’ Track kicks in at 12:33

4th Floor Suicide Note Off the album ‘The Truth About Love & Hate’ Track kicks in at 17:43

SeasonStream Just Fine Off the album ‘Three Sides to Every Story’ Track kicks in at 23:33

Check it out and let me know what you think - either leave me an audio comment or drop me an e-mail ! Tell me what you liked, any bands you really got into, stuff you weren’t too keen on, recommendations, etc.

I’ve got some great music + interviews lined for the next couple of shows, so keep checking the site. Remember - add the RSS feed to make sure you automatically get the latest shows!