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 ...

Pomplamoose’s music frequently gets labeled “indie-pop,” but Conte and Dawn studiously avoid clinging to any single genre. Their vehicle to YouTube fame was covering Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I first saw Pomplamoose on youtube a few months ago, and I think I meant to put up a post about them, but then my soaps were on, or I had to take a nap or something, and forgot all about it. Well ...

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 ...

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 ...