[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mZ02alEkbLw#!] Jack Conte is an Internet musician who became an Internet sensation and now, thanks to ...
In this episode, Jack Conte of Pomplamoose lets loose in a passionate and brutally honest interview. He offers blunt insights into his band's success (and its shortcomings), and discusses the value of ...
Nataly Dawn met Jack Conte in 2006, when she opened for his band at a coffee house on the Stanford campus— she was a freshman, he a senior— and they started dating soon after. While they adored both ...
It's 11:16 am on a Saturday, and Jack Conte—bright-eyed, bushy-bearded—is zigzagging around a cramped Los Angeles recording studio, dodging eight musicians, two cameramen, a sound engineer, and a ...
Bundles of music and merch and of all-digital content have shown that there are many alternatives to simply throwing in the towel, giving everything away for free and hoping for the best on the road.
In a surprising display of transparency, Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn aka Pomplamoose detailed what it took to run a 28-city tour of the US. The bottom line? The band made $135,983 in income… and ...
UPDATE: For more on Pomplamoose, see our February, 23, 2011 cover story on the band. Since Pomplamoose gained attention for its self-produced “video songs,” which show Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn ...
Pomplamoose's Jack Conte explains the uphill climb for "middle-class" bands. By Andrew Flanagan Jack Conte, one half of the indie duo Pomplamoose, took to the nascent publishing platform Medium ...
The duo Pomplamoose — Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, Stanford grads turned YouTube musical sensations — return to their alma mater for a special concert on Saturday. The multi-instrumentalists met at ...
This story appears in the May 7, 2012 issue of Forbes Magazine, on newsstands now. While most indie acts use a distributor like INgrooves, a plucky few have launched successful careers without a ...
You can add the band Pomplamoose to the long and growing list of YouTube sensations, with its cover of Beyonce's "Single Ladies." Its members don't have a record deal or a publicist, but that song's ...
As part of the band Pomplamoose, musician Jack Conte had a sizeable fan base in the late 2000s and was making thousands of dollars a month from iTunes sales. But when streaming services like Spotify ...