I'm kinda floored by the comments on the story on NPR. Even if you don't like'em, they're managing to pull off something not everyone can. I've enjoyed Pomplamoose for a while now. Glad to see they're doing well.<p>Then again, I guess it's just as shocking that I'm still surprised by the vitriolic tone of commenters on the internet.
Here's a cover of Earth Wind & Fire's "September", I think it's some of their best work<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycnv87N_BU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycnv87N_BU</a>
This could change the music-game for good. With youtube already being an important player for any kind of music consumation, they would tap gigantic potential if they find a way to establish this program with a large number of bands. The more content they get, the more the major labels are forced to consider the same actions for their big performers. Youtube gets paid...
Sorta OT: Pomplamoose Shreds: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKD07BYcreg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKD07BYcreg</a> They're talented, but the description cracks me up..
I love their stuff. I do kinda wish they sold physical CDs—I would get one for my dad in a heartbeat. This is probably my favorite of their tracks: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KMgg7T_sg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KMgg7T_sg</a>
"I guess I kinda don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture," he says. "It just feels fake; it feels like smoke and mirrors. I feel like music doesn't have to be like that. It can be something that's very normal and very accessible."<p>Man this quote from the Pomplamoose guy really does a good job of making a spot-on observation while managing to diss his own band.<p>He's right IMO. The music and music culture of my generation is self-centered, and pompous (see hipsters). But I still enjoy it. I think by making music that's "very normal and very accessible" you wind up in the land of vanilla like Pomplamoose.
I guess I shouldn't be as shocked as I am that a major NPR anchor and interviewer, Linda Wertheimer, seems to consider it a huge novelty for a record release to be digital-only.
Another example: Andrew Garcia (I believe that's his name) he is in American Idol a former youtuber (American Idol force people to delete previous-show-promotion e.g. youtube videos).