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 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 ...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. OK, there are lots of great songs. But for me this one has always been ...
On an improbably sunny midwinter day, amid green pastures and meandering cows, two unassuming musicians are waging a revolution against the established order of the recording industry. Here, inside a ...
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 ...
Mashing up Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” and “Get Lucky,” music-making duo Pomplamoose has come up with one of the more original music videos we’ve seen. Shot in a single take and employing just one ...
As they demonstrated with their previous mashup of Lorde, Beck, and 2Pac, YouTube stars Pomplamoose are very good at two things (at least): Reworking popular songs to make them their own, and ...
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 ...