I had a nice converation with Alex Williams from the Corante Podcasting blog this weekend about digital music, the RIAA and podcasting. During the conversation Alex mentioned an event that Corante is hosting that sounded very cool and interesting. The event is called The Podcast Hotel and it will take place on September 6th and 7th at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

The whole place is going to be tricked out for creating media, blogging and podcasting. According to the event announcement: "Rooms will be for recording, editing and producing. The court yard will be a media lounge. The underground club will be for podcast concerts. And the city of Portland will become our stage."

It sounds great, and it runs right into the MusicFest NW music festival which runs from September 8th - 10th. The folks at Corante are teaming with MusicFest NW to create an "unconference". No boring panels, just conversation.

I like the concept and the format sounds great. There should be plenty of indie musicians on hand to join in the conversation on music, podcasting and digital rights. Let's get those musicians podcasting and make the major labels quake in their boots!