Jamie Sample
it`s so diffcult to get on a radio staion if you are unsigned. podcasts and internet stations allow your music to be heard where as before you would have to gig like mad and hope someone in the media likes your stuff

lummy
Since it's not controlled by the big media outlets anything can be and is said. That is the most important part. True freedom of speech not sticking to the script you were given. Yeh, a lot is rubbish, just like most gigs are crap but then there is the nugget of gold. How do you think bands get signed? With podcasting you can get fans from all round the world that have heard and will buy your stuff. It also means that if i want to know what's big in other countries I listen to a mexican podcast. I don't have to travel or even know where to buy mexican records. Ultimately podcasting gives a voice to the voiceless and that is worth more than its weight in gold. It's a cheap and easy way to make a show as well and interesting business models will be built around it.

Boyt Mesden
It's important for people to have access to something that gives them a voice, and in an uncensored format. However, podcasts are mostly rubbish because anyone can do it. I think podcasting is just a phase that will never get off the ground purely down to the fact that no-one wants to listen to people talking about what they had for breakfast and how many sheep they would like to have if they owned a farm. Totally pointless.

DarkCompass Podcast
It gives the opportunity for anyone to express their feelings in an audible format, providing off-center looks on life, love, music, pretty much anything. On the music side, it gives independent and unsigned artists an additional boost to getting their music out there to the masses that would not normally hear it on conventional radio. Amongst the thirty or so shows I listen to, my favorites? The Richard Vobes Radio Show, Distorted View, Bitjobs for the Masses and Insomnia Radio.

@lex
Podcasting is a great thing and refreshing to listen to. You can hear real people with real views in true, raw, un-processed and un-cut form. Just what the world needs, where everything seems to appear sanitized before consumption.

Tane Piper
Podcasting is a very important development for independent and unsigned artists. On my podcast, I play Scottish artists like the Tartan Podcast, but also play many artists from around the world. I get good feedback from my listners too about the bands and music I play, and have quite a few bands lined up to play on the show. It gives these artists an outlet to have their music played without the need for any commercial success.

Adrian Pegg
Roger Smalls is one of my favourites too. I thought I should mention that Europe's first Podcasting Conference will be taking place on 17th September in London.

Dissident Vox
Pretty important! Why? It's a global megaphone for free speech, unsigned music, & creative people with something or nothing to say! It's forging new online communities, & it's a great way to hear WHAT you want to hear, WHEN you want to hear it! Podcasting is here to stay!