November 2011
35 posts
Groovebug team is going to Reggie’s in Chicago for Chicago Afrobeat Project show. #Occupy event too. Rumors swirling about a guest…
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New Groovebug Feature: White Denim
Steve Terebecki, Austin Jenkins, James Petralli and Josh Block combine to form one of the most buzzworthy up-and-coming rock acts on the touring circuit. White Denim have been tearing up live shows with their blend of pure energy and technicality that has earned them the title of “best rock band at SXSW” for four consecutive years.
“Shake Shake Shake” captures the heat of...
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New Groovebug Feature: Psalm One
What do chemistry and music have in common? Probably very little (unless you’re like me and had certain songs to cry to after failing a chemistry exam.) This week’s featured artist, however, has a bit of a deeper connection to both fields. Psalm One was a chemistry major at University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign when she recorded her deput LP Bio: Chemistry. In fact, she initially pursued...
Groovebug Top 100 November 17 - 23
Not surprisingly, all of us here at Groovebug are music junkies. Like any group of true music junkies, our tastes vary quite a bit. We are very pleased to see that our users are just as diverse. Many of the artists in the Groovebug Top 100 are also in the pop charts. This isn’t surprising as the Groovebug Top 100 ranks artsits by popularity. What IS interesting is the diversity of the...
This video is amazing! Emil & Friends - “Let Your Heart / Prescriptions” (Video)
http://t.co/hiSkk6LU via @groovebug
If you dig the new version of our app, please rate us in iTunes: http://t.co/22IHdEgM
Want to know the disadvantages of wearing a teddybear head? Check out our @teddybearrock feature on the Groovebug app!…
RT @Passafire: We’re featured on @Groovebug for iPad this week: visit the app to learn more about us and the music that inspires us.
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New Groovebug Feature: Emil & Friends
True or False: Emil & Friends is the band of actor Emil Hirsh. FALSE.
True or False: Emil Hewitt, the real Emil behind the music, created the rumor in an effort to get his music heard. TRUE.
Personally, we respect anyone who can successfully fake being Emil Hirsh. The real Emil is a self-classified “weird pop” musician. He spent quite a few years as an elusive artist who would periodically...
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New Groovebug Feature: Passafire
While Reggae-Rock may make you think of guys with dreadlocks shredding the guitar, Passafire has created a unique sound that defies stereotypes of both Reggae and Rock. Playing over 150 shows a year, Passafire brings the concept of life in the fast lane to a whole new level. The band is literally in a new city every day. Passafire formed in 2003 while the members were students attending Savannah...
Last week’s Top 3 most popular artists in @groovebug were #1 @OfficialAdele #2 @justinbieber #3 @nervomusic We’ll post the Top 100 soon
Happy Wednesday! In honor of hump day, heres a video by the lovely miss @Adele shared by one of our users http://t.co/ZzIUPCEb #groovebugged
Groovebug’s Weekly Top 100 - While we were anxious to share the data from our first week, we are even more… http://t.co/DOl57Wy7
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Groovebug's Weekly Top 100
While we were anxious to share the data from our first week, we are even more enthusiastic to see that our featured artists are movin’ on up. For the week of 10/27-11/02 our #1 most viewed artist was featured artist Fitz & The Tantrums. Seeing our featured artists jump almost 400 spots to beat out the likes of Adele, Coldplay, and The Biebs makes us even more excited about continuing...
M83’s Midnight City is one of our new favorite songs http://t.co/qrx9UexY glad to see our users are sharing it too! #groovebugged
New Groovebug Feature: The Suzan - Konnichiwa, amigos. Up this week on Groovebug is an act that describes… http://t.co/3vgUDE1R
New Groovebug Feature: Dominique Young Unique - We all want to find the next big thing because it makes us… http://t.co/nbnKtYna
3 new artists featured on Groovebug : @thesuzan, @NewVillager and @missyoungunique: visit http://t.co/MboVaiAb and the iPad app
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New! Groovebug's Weekly Top 100
With great power comes great responsibility, and with great apps comes great trackability. Sorry to sound stalkerish, but we here at Groovebug love getting to see the data on the artists our users explore the most. Here’s the list from our first week:
Deadboy
Adele
Derrick Carter
Arcade Fire
Justin Bieber
Coldplay
Maroon 5
2Pac
Cajmere
Nirvana
The Notorious B.I.G.
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New Groovebug Feature: The Suzan
Konnichiwa, amigos. Up this week on Groovebug is an act that describes themselves as “four girls from Tokyo.” To the point, ne? The Suzan twists a classic popular sound with their bubbly personalities and dancey sound. As one commentator put it, their music will make you want to move to Japan.
This first song “Come Come” is live footage taken from the Japan society of...
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New Groovebug Feature: NewVillager
Most musicians are considered artists but NewVillager is actually an artist collective as opposed to a band. Member’s Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini make new pop music as a means of illustrating the NewVillager mythology (yes, they have a mythology). They describe their mythos as, “not a story, but a lens to look at the world. It’s a ten-part framework of understanding the process of change. How...
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New Groovebug Feature: Dominique Young Unique
We all want to find the next big thing because it makes us feel kind of cool. You can be all like “I was listening to Florence & The Machine before she even had an album out. I found her on some cool hip underground blog.” Not that those words have come out of my mouth. On that note, we here at Groovebug are pretty confident we’ve found the next big thing and it is this week’s featured...
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New Groovebug Feature: Teddybears
Daft Punk wears robot costumes. Deadmau5 wears a mouse’s head. When we came across Teddybears, a hot new electric group with a big old bear heads on at all times, we didn’t ask any questions. With the peculiar look comes a great new sound that is upbeat, smile-worthy and all the while electro.
You probably like feeling good. Right? Right. Well there’s a great genre-hybrid...
“Finally a bug that doesn’t need to be squashed” Thanks @cychicago for the Groovebug piece! http://t.co/S967IN6I
RT @BostonPhoenix: Air, water, food, and iPad apps. Here are some of the best: @echnonest @MTVmusicmeter @groovebug #mbta #studentsurviv …
Amazing video shared by a groovebug user of new featured artist @nervomusic http://t.co/lMdbmA64 can we all live like this? #groovebugged
Three new artists on Groovebug today: @atrak, @TheBlackLips and @nervomusic. Check em out on the iPad app and/or @ http://t.co/F2Ia5kwT
Black Lips - Katrina - Vice Records (Video) http://t.co/R4R0PoZM via @groovebug
RT @AndyHermannMMX: This kinda makes me wish I owned an iPad: Groovebug. Builds a “magazine” based on your iTunes library. http://t.co/8 …
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New Groovebug Feature: A-Trak
If you’ve ever applied for work, you’ve probably listed a few personal achievements. The odds that they included a) being taken on tour with Kanye while in college AND b) getting covered on Glee and X-factor AND c) being a turn table prodigy since the teen years, however, are probably pretty low. Still, that’s the cool suite of stories that popular DJ A-Trak can boast. Between...
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New Groovebug Feature: NERVO
The duo NERVO, made up of a couple of sisters Nervo, puts out house music like the best of them. Liv and Mim turn tracks into “danceable gold” while keeping things cheerful and catchy. These girls remind us that Australia is distinct from Europe, but still able to get ‘euro’ all over.
First is a star-studded video showing off some of those connections NERVO has out in the...
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New Groovebug Feature: Black Lips
There are flowers and there is punk, but our next featured band, the Black Lips, marries the two in an unlikely union. This self appointed “flower punk” band combines elements of blues, rock, doo-wop, country, and punk to create a hard yet accessible sound. The band was known early on for their crazy stage antics and even crazier recording strategies. For example, their first album for Vice...
RT @vintagebluechi: Check out the post about Metro Chicago on Groovebug’s site! We’ll be there December 8th! http://t.co/B9yLlkCr
This Friday Groovebug for #iPad features 3 forces in music: @TheBlackLips @nervomusic and @atrak - DL for free: http://t.co/22IHdEgM
For anyone having a lazy tuesday or into facial hair this ELO video http://t.co/2GYh9TXN shared by a Groovebug user is sure to perk you…
