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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month, Pomplamoose's Jack Conte posted a ridiculous essay detailing the band's unprofitability on tour, something that he attributed to "a new paradigm for professional artistry" instead of the ...

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 ...

Traphik and DJ BL3ND still dominate, while indie duo Pomplamoose slingshots from No. 30 to No. 5 and British dance-punkers Friendly Fires make their debut at No. 27. By Kyle Bylin This week on ...

Pomplamoose don’t release music on CD or any other physical media. The group has no deal with a record label. It also doesn’t tour—in three years, it has played only three live shows, all of them in ...

When Nataly Dawn began collaborating with Jack Conte as Pomplamoose, they didn't have any dreams of becoming pop stars. They planned to make videos for a few songs they'd written and put them online.

So maybe there really is a sensible middle ground in the music business – somewhere between David Lowery’s pessimism and Bram Cohen’s blind faith in our digital future. That future may be the pop ...

Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who make up the musical duo Pomplamoose, explain in this ‎Brief But Spectacular take how they harness their fans' internet curiosity with their covers of Beyonce hits and ...

Indie duo Pomplamoose raucously covers the Angry Birds theme song in the humorous video above. It's yet another clever example of the sheer power of Rovio Mobile's viral game sensation. YouTube is ...