Pomplamoose

Alright, last fall I started to talk about Pomplamoose and people were like, "Yeah, I'll definitely check it out."... yeah right.

You need to check out this band. If anything good can come of music videos via You Tube, this is it. If Rebecca Black left a bad taste in your mouth for viral videos then please, allow me to show you the cure (no, not Robert Smith's Cure).

Pomplamoose is made up of two members, Jack Conte and Natalie Dawn. They are multi-instrumentalists and good ones at that. Natalie's voice is great and her abilities at harmonizing are incredible. Jack's drum work as well as finding odd, old and interesting items to play tunes are very admirable and his enthusiasm is contagious. They formed in 2008 and by 2009, they had already sold 100,000 songs online (how many bands have been around for years struggling to get half that?). They have over 240,000 subscribers to their You Tube channel as of the beginning of this year and their covers of songs have been featured in Toyata and Hyundai ads.

Jack has stated there are two rules with their video songs and they are:

1. What you see is what you hear. (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice)
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it. (No hidden sounds)

Pretty cool. Some of my fav covers they do are Mister Sandman (The Chordettes), Single Ladies (Beyonce), and Beat It (Michael Jackson).

I believe they are now on an East Coast tour with fellow You Tube video posters, OK Go (another creative band). Check 'em out here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic

You can thank me later for this great band that know how to leverage the culture to garner quite a following.

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Greg