Today, we’ve rolled out a little feature that may just be what you need right before the holidays.
At www.popcuts.com/gift, you can issue Popcuts gift certificates for your loved ones, so they can find the music they love and make a little profit from their good taste.
Gift certificates can be given to existing Popcuts users or to anyone else, and they come in all kinds of sizes. So give a little love to that distant relative / coworker / classmate / cute girl or guy you’re too shy to add on Facebook.
Hey guys, check it out! Popcuts is honored to receive an Internet Retailer Hot 100 Award. Internet Retailer gave us an award in the Books, Film & Music category.
We’re thrilled to be recipients of this award, alongside great businesses like Borders, Blockbuster and iTunes.
The first is aimed at making your browsing and shopping experience smoother: A shopping cart. Anywhere on the site, clicking the buy button now drops a song into your shopping cart – without reloading the page so there’s minimum distraction. You don’t even have to be logged in to start shopping, so the site is even more inviting to new users now. Needless to say, this is going to be very helpful for our power users who buy ten songs at once as well as the occasional shopper!
The other is a feature our artists have been requesting a lot: Popcuts artists can now delete or temporarily disable songs from their artist dashboard. In addition, audio files for a given song can be replaced with a newer version. This is particularly helpful to those bands who want to put their releases out there early but may get a better master at a later point. All users who’ve already purchased a song can always download the latest file.
We hope you like it, and we’re eager to hear your feedback!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve entered a content partnership with DashGo, Inc., a Santa Monica-based distributor of indendent music. The partnership will bring thousands of new tracks to the Popcuts music store and includes music from labels such as Delicious Vinyl and Rock Ridge Music. We will be rolling out the DashGo catalog over the next few weeks, featuring hot artists like Santogold, Carla Bruni, The Pharcyde, and Coconut Records.
Stay tuned here for release dates, so you can grab these songs right when they come out!
Wow. Popcuts began life in California, and after a stellar three months in Cambridge, MA for YCombinator, we’re happy to be back in the Bay Area.
In the past three months, we’ve packed up and moved twice, met dozens of artists and fans, flown crazy miles, and written a ton of code. In Boston, we caught some great live shows. !!! brought the house down in Boston, and Tim Gearan Band is a Monday night legend over at Somerville’s Toad. Those Fourth of July fireworks ain’t bad either.
And in the meanwhile, lots of you guys may’ve seen us in the paper, on the blogosphere, or even out on the street (thanks to all the Popcuts fans who’ve met up with us in the Bay Area, Boston, NYC… even in Berlin!).
The blog’s been quiet, but we’ve been working on lots of things that you’ll see coming down the pipeline soon! We are about to roll out some big features, for artists and fans alike. We’re doing deals which will bring TONS of music to our store, and expand the “playground” just for you and your fellow music lovers. We’ve been talking to some cool people, like the geniuses over at last.fm, Reddit, and some other people who are interested in helping Popcuts grow. Users like you are streaming us feedback and encouragement every day, so keep it coming!
In the meantime, check out this awesome video, by an amazing California artist, Jack Conte:
Today, we’ve rolled out a little feature that may just be what you need right before the holidays.
