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 ...

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 ...

Facebook, Lolcats, Instant Netflix — the Internet’s given us lots to be thankful for. And no one is singing their praise louder than Pomplamoose. In the past two years, the San Fran–based indie pop ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Nataly Dawn began collaborating with Jack Conte as Pomplamoose, they didn't have any dreams of becoming pop stars. They planned to make videos for a few songs they'd written and put them online.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traphik and DJ BL3ND still dominate, while indie duo Pomplamoose slingshots from No. 30 to No. 5 and British dance-punkers Friendly Fires make their debut at No. 27. By Kyle Bylin This week on ...