In short, the video of West’s interruption went massively viral, and interest in the song spiked. People around the world started digging around YouTube for covers of the track, and Pomplamoose—the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember when the Internet was an amazing new thing that was about to change all of our lives for the better? Pomplamoose, charmingly, still feels that way. The YouTube-friendly duo, best known for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pomplamoose seemed to be trying to please existing fans, not seduce new ones. It didn’t make the band seem any more exciting that it was followed by the Dresden Dolls, a cabaret-punk outfit whose two ...

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 ...