“Now Playing” features playlists as well as information about the person responsible for the mix. Up next: Me! RAINYMAPLE. These are my quite official staff picks.
About Me: Well, I’m the Community Manager here at OurStage. When I’m not working I like to make all sorts of crafts, play music, and hang out with my puppy Lupe. If you can’t find me check the garden, where I’m probably covered in dirt and trying to figure out how to stop tiny beetles from eating my flowers.
Favorite Artists: Café Tacuba, Mission of Burma, Shellac, Battles, OK Go, TV On The Radio… soooo many…
Favorite OurStage Artists: A Pack of Wolves, Pomplamoose, Cedarwell, Bergman Pazs, Another Cynthia
If I were a rockstar for a day I’d be… Katy Perry.
Because… I would quit the pop world and join an underground electro-punk band, then take over the world! Love the voice, love the look, hate the music.
I have so many favorites it was near impossible to make a short list. I tried to pick artists that have been featured less than others or not at all yet in the blog. Check out my playlist:
[playlist artist_name="A Pack of Wolves" artist_url="http://www.ourstage.com/fanclub/apackofwolves" song_name="A Hole in the Ground" song_url="http://www.ourstage.com/play/track/WRSQRTDFDDKI?autoplay=false"]
[playlist artist_name="The Panderers" artist_url="http://www.ourstage.com/fanclub/thepanderers" song_name="Really" song_url="http://www.ourstage.com/play/track/XBUELTPUGWAP?autoplay=false"]
[playlist artist_name="The Nadas" artist_url="http://www.ourstage.com/fanclub/thenadas" song_name="Loser" song_url="http://www.ourstage.com/play/track/ZNSUADDBDUGL?autoplay=false"]
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There are so many music videos out there these days that it has become a real challenge to come up with something original. No matter how great the director and how great the song, there are only so many styles, so many angles to take, and so many effects to edit in later. All this can leave a band asking, “How can we create something unique and interesting to visually accompany our song?”
Pomplamoose has an answer.
Their video for the song “Hail Mary” has been doing well in the Pop Music Video channel all month. It isn’t your average video; they call it a VideoSong. It’s not quite a “live performance,” though it is made up of elements that are entirely recorded live. According to the video’s description:
A VideoSong is a new Medium with two rules: 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).
The band is comprised of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn and is based in Corte Madera, California. Both are multi-instrumentalists who enjoy making music on their own and have come together to form Pomplamoose, which is a creative misspelling of pamplemousse, the French word for grapefruit. Whether there’s meaning behind that or not, it doesn’t really matter. The name is an appropriate title for a fun band with fun music and videos.
