Music:
Kemp Harris - Sweet Weeping Jesus
Kelly Sweet - Raincoat
Sektor - Blue
Alex Quinn - Dreams
Martyn Joseph - Love Is
Ian Babington - Learning To Fly
The Dreams - Lost In The Music

Poetry:
Helen Gregory - Touch Paper, Tea's Up, Treading Gingerly, S Love And Peace Innit

Mentioned in the programme :
Bum Rush The Charts , Slam Idol Open Writing Challenge, Podcast Peer Awards

This is a cool idea. To show the awsome power of social media in action and to send the music biz a big message, a group have got together and have come up with the idea of getting an idependent music artist to number one in the ITUNES music charts for one day, 22nd March 2006. They are asking everyone to purchase this song from ITUNES on this day. And they have signed up as an affiliate of the iTunes Music Store, and every commission made on the sale of the chosen song by Black Lab called "Mine Again" will be donated to college scholarships, partly because it's a worthy cause, but also partly because college students are among the most misunderstood and underestimated groups of people by big media.

The date for the combined effort is 22nd March. You can find out more about this at their web site at http://bumrushthecharts.blogspot.com/

Homegrown has been nominated in the Poetry Podcast category of the Podcast Peer Awards, along with some other great poetry podcasts - Cloudy Day Art, Slam Idol, Little Reds Writing Hood, Indie Feed Performance Poetry, Everyday Muse and Mike McGee. The Awards are chosen and voted for by podcasters.

Check out all the other finialists at the Podcast Peer Awards site, the winners will be announced on March 4th.

So does this mean I get to dress up and attend a top notch swanky awards dinner type affair?? No, not really, but I am thrilled to be nominated and wish all my fellow podcasters the best of luck.

Music:
Shadow Machine - Save Me
Mary Beth D'Amico - Jimmy
Bad Astronaut - The F Word
Seth Martin - Individuality
Melinda Thorpe - The Memory
Listen With Sarah - Tempus Trumpus
 
 
Poetry:
Adele Ward - La Casa Al Mare / Eclipse / The Last Time I Wore Fur / Silence
 

This week I hosted AMPed, the weekly podcast from the Association of Music Podcasting, which features some of the best independent music being played by podcasters both in the UK, the States and beyond.

I thought I'd present the podcast here for your consideration, slightly revised with a break for some spoken word material half way through. More information on AMP can be found at www.musicpodcasting.org

Music:
Los Campesinos - You Me Dancing
isHesafe - Starting Over
Tony Kehoe - You've Got To Give It Back
Andy McKee - The Friend I Never Met
Peter Greenstone - Iridium Flare
Melaney Maloney - Rompecabeza
Ryan Affenberg - Under All The Bright Lights

Spoken Word:
Connections 1 - by Divergent Future
 

Music:
Seagull Strange - Sullas Return
Mark Wilson - Realise
Sahib Radio - Jacks Home
David Elias - River Of Dreams
Barry Mcloughlin - Fifth Avenue
Ryan Affenberg - Under All The Bright Lights
 
Poetry:
James Stewart - The Quiet , Letting Go.
Check out James's podcast The Underground