Breaking: Grooveshark Launches Widgets and New Social Features for Grooveshark Lite

October 16, 2008

Well, the day has finally come, Grooveshark has released their widget platform, essentially creating the best place to make and share music on the web.

HBO Fall 2008 Season Theme Song: Santogold LES Artistes

September 9, 2008

Watching the previews for the new HBO Fall 2008 season they were playing a great song, Santogold’s LES Artistes.

I still think a majority of good content is discovered through TV and alternative mediums, music labels just need to find a way to capture this gold.

What If Napster Mattered?

May 22, 2008

Napster recently released their 6 million catalog MP3 store and the world hit the snooze button. I mean, who really cares about Napster; their mp3 player sucks (ie it’s not an iPod), I can get better content from the illegal networks, they don’t really differentiate themselves from Rhapsody, and at the end of my contract, [...]

Creating a Legal Alternative to the Illegal Networks

April 19, 2008

Exclusives are the common trade practice for most industries to help companies get a competitive advantage over others. AT&T and the iPhone, the Super Bowl on FOX, Madonna on Verizon, etc.
Now for the first two, the exclusives make sense. You can’t use an iPhone on Verizon and you can’t watch the Super Bowl on CBS, [...]

Startup: Slacker Signs Deal With All 4 Major Labels (Publishers)

April 8, 2008

Slacker, despite the name, has taken every effort to gain licenses from all 4 major labels and has finally succeeded. Seeing that there are no downloads involved, the publishing sides of the major labels have agreed to go forward with the deal. Typically the publishing sides of the majors are a lot more likely to [...]

Grooveshark: Candyman is Coming -Ringtone

April 3, 2008

Part of a promotion we’re doing with the Candyman, here’s a draft post:

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Grooveshark: Weedshare Founder Endorses the Grooveshark Model (indirectly)

March 19, 2008

John Beezer, the co-founder of Weedshare, whose company is now on the auction block is giving up some suggestions on how they should have done Weedshare for the potential purchasers, and the ideas he’s floating sound awfully similar to the model we’re building at Grooveshark.
Here’s a sample of his suggestions from p2pnet:
Lesson learned: even benign [...]

Startup: Spiralfrog Renegotiates Loan Term — Buys Them 1 More Year

March 17, 2008

After Spiralfrog posted that 10million loan application, I thought things couldn’t get any worse for them, but it turns out there might be a silver lining to their cloud. They’ve been able to re-negotiate the terms on their loan that required them to pay $7 million back on this day, today.

Renegotiating the terms on the [...]

Startup: Grooveshark Hooks Up The University of Florida for Valentine's Day

February 14, 2008

Part of our Grooveshark groups project, we have all been divided up into kick-ass teams of 5 or so, and we’re finally now enacting all of our 3 week long projects.
For Valentine’s Day, we’re giving UF students free $10 in music, conveniently contained in a Valentine’s Day card, which will be taped to the bottom [...]

Grooveshark: The Check is in the Mail

February 14, 2008

With Moneyshark rolling out, our labels are finally starting to get paid (remember “everbody gets paid?“). We’ve crafted up some slick packets that will be going out in the coming weeks, and we’ll be rolling out Moneyshark to labels as the product is tested and debugged.
2008 will be the year of Grooveshark.

Grooveshark: Moneyshark is Coming

February 13, 2008

The long awaited, much anticipated label analytics engine for Grooveshark is coming.
Moneyshark.

Startup: Grooveshark Artist Skin for Girl Talk

February 1, 2008

Girl Talk performed in Gainesville Wednesday, and also in Orlando Thursday, so we’re celebrating by skinning the entire site for the Girl Talk performances. Vishal did a great job on the skin, and it really embodies everything Girl Talk is about, like drinking, hot girls, and mashups.

Girl Talk is one of the fore-runners in the [...]

Listen: Ingrid Michaelson – The Way I Am

January 31, 2008

Ingrid Michaelson’s song can be quite addicting, I try to only listen to it a couple times a day so I don’t wear it out, but it’s just so damned addicting.

I’ve uploaded the clip here so you can hear it, and also have the Grooveshark page if you’re interested in downloading/streaming it for free:

Grooveshark: Ingrid [...]

Grooveshark Label Packet Drafts

January 10, 2008

Grooveshark is developing new packages for all of their label partners, and our wonderful designer John has come up with a couple of mockups.
This card (front/back) is meant to illustrate our team, and how we’re offering a completely radical, different product for consumers and record-labels alike.
The front side shows our team, how we are young, [...]

Grooveshark Blog Testing Featured Artist, Album, Song, etc.

January 5, 2008

We’re constantly working on ways to promote our licensed labels and artists, and one of our biggest promotional pieces is our blog.
So in that fashion, we’re going to work on regular schedules of staff and fan favorites. Right now we’re not positive on the schedule of how we’re doing things, but we’ve got the idea, [...]