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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pomplamoose is a music duo best known for its fun and creative pop covers and original songs. Formed by Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte, it became popular on YouTube, gaining millions of views for its ...

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 week on Uncharted Territory, New York electro poppers The Knocks storm back, while mainstays Pomplamoose climb after releaseing a new video. By Jon Blistein It’s been a while since we last heard ...

Beatles covers are maddeningly tricky. Stay too close to the original, and it comes off fawning. Muck around too badly, and you’ve desecrated a musical shrine. How do you take a song by The Greatest ...