Popcuts Blog http://blog.popcuts.com Most recent posts at Popcuts Blog posterous.com Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:55:07 -0800 Holiday Fun With Popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/holiday-fun-with-popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/holiday-fun-with-popcuts

It's winter (at least in parts of the world). Berlin, where part of Popcuts is based, has been snowed in for a week. And as the holiday season approaches, our music catalog fills up with music to get you in the mood.

Here's a rundown of holiday music, just out on Popcuts:

Alex Eden of Side Tracked Records in L.A. starts us off with a jazzy, swingy tune: 
Alex Eden - Jingle Jangle Party (on Christmas Day)

Todd Carey dreams about that perfect Christmas day in his mellow, slow, acoustic guitar piece: 
Todd Carey - Perfect Christmas Day

Already well-liked on Facebook, New Jersey's Brianna Brice's new Christmas tune is quickly becoming a hit on Popcuts: 
Brianna Brice - The Christmas Song

Also coming from New Jersey, Popcuts band Tangle Town uploaded their holiday song for this year: 
Tangle Town - Those Holidays

And, finally, Russian-born, singer-songwriter Marina V offers her take on holiday loneliness: 
Marina V - Christmas Is Going To Suck (Without You)

In other news, check out "The Relationship", the side project of Weezer guitarist Brian Bell. Their self-titled debut album is out now: 
The Relationship - The Relationship


Have a great winter!

Team Popcuts

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/KB1K9QYlcl popcuts popcuts Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:34:39 -0700 Downtime on November 4 http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2010/11/05/downtime-on-november-4 http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2010/11/05/downtime-on-november-4 Popcuts has suffered a downtime of several hours yesterday (November 4). The reason for this outage was a power interruption due to a fire near the datacenter that houses our servers. All systems are back to normal now, and we have suffered no data loss. We apologize to our users for  the service interruption! The Popcuts team

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:35:00 -0700 Tell your friends and get free music. http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2010/06/09/tell-your-friends-and-get-free-music http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2010/06/09/tell-your-friends-and-get-free-music

Last week, we launched a new feature on our site that can get you free music! When you invite others to Popcuts, we reward you when they buy their first song. That's right: When someone signs up using your personal invite link and buys their first song, we'll give you a free song. (Only one condition: You must have already bought at least one song.)

How does it work?

If you're a signed-up Popcuts user, go to http://www.popcuts.com/invite to find your personal invite link. Give this link to your friends, share it on Twitter and Facebook, or email it, so we know you sent 'em. When someone signs up using that link and buys their first song, we'll add 99 cents to your account.

We hope you enjoy this offer!

-Team Popcuts

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:09:00 -0800 Buy Music, Raise Money (for a good cause!) http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/12/17/buy-music-raise-money-for-a-good-cause http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/12/17/buy-music-raise-money-for-a-good-cause
Holiday greetings from the Popcuts Team! Today we're pleased to announce Popcuts for Causes. Now when you buy a song, that song can raise money for the cause or charity of your choice. Popcuts has always given money back to fans, but now we're letting fans "pay it forward" to those in need. It's simple: just find a song you love, and at checkout, select an organization to sponsor. After that, your Popcuts rewards for that song will go into the fund for that cause, along with others' donations. Every time we hit $5, we'll cut a check and notify the fans who made a difference. For the holidays, you can even make a Popcuts for Causes gift purchase! Music can be that great gift. And donating money on someone's behalf is really cool too. Now your Popcuts purchase can be the best of both. For right now, we've begun our giving campaign with four awesome organizations:
  • Kiva.org - A cutting edge organization for good, connecting people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
  • DonorsChoose.org - An online charity that makes it easy to help students through donations to individual teacher's projects.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation - The leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.
  • Amnesty International - A worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
Just in time for this season of giving, Popcuts reminds you to support music that gives back. - Team Popcuts

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:17:06 -0700 Popcuts Awards at all2gethernow Berlin http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/09/28/popcuts-awards-at-all2gethernow-berlin http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/09/28/popcuts-awards-at-all2gethernow-berlin
all2gethernow 2009 is over. It was a lot of fun, and we met lots of interesting folks there. Some of them stood out of the crowd, by something they said, did, or the way they looked, and we wanted to honor that. So, just like we did at SXSW, here are some awards we handed out to these individuals:
See the Facebook photoset.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:27:00 -0700 How do you own music? http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/09/18/how-do-you-own-music http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/09/18/how-do-you-own-music

Yesterday at the a2n #camp, together with Petar Djekic from mufin, I facilitated a discussion entitled "The Day Ownership Died - Why still own music?" It was an all-out interesting discussion, and we touched upon a wide range of interesting topics.

A good deal of the time was spent discussing the pros and cons of streaming music versus having a local library of digital sound files. Another recurring theme was the demise of physical, tangible and sensual media to store sound recordings. Participants expressed that the less tangible and the more virtual their sound recordings were, the more people felt that their sense of "ownership" in these items faded away.

During the discussion, I noticed that the distinction between "streaming" and "owning" was a bit misleading, as it focuses too much on technology. There are gray areas, such as owning MP3 files but storing them somewhere in the cloud and retrieving them on demand. So instead I proposed to look at these two concepts as "buying" music versus "renting" it.

But this contrast can also be understood as a dichotomy between permanent versus transient music artifacts: Most of us grew up in an environment where indiviuals owned large music collections, conserved as sound recordings on various media. But of course, it wasn't always like this. Four or so generations ago, the concept of recording sound was unknown. Music was intrinsically for the moment. After the last note was played, the performance was gone. So before we had physical, tangible, sensual media like vinyl with its beautiful cover artwork, we had no media at all!

If you plot these two dimensions – permanent versus transient, and sensual versus virtual, you end up with a picture like this.

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It's clear that we somehow started out in the upper right quadrant: Ephemeral, but very sensual musical experiences. We then moved along counter-clockwise, and for a few decades lived primarily in the land of somewhat sensual sound recordings that could be listened to over and over again, and some of which we cherished as rarities, as treasures.

More recently, with the advent of CDs and MP3s, sound recordings have become less physical, and more virtual, even though the sound recordings haven't changed (if you ignore media-inherent artifacts such as vinyl noise). Now with the rise of streaming services such as Last.FM and Spotify, it looks like the pendulum is once again swinging back into the realm of the transient. Consumers have access to music but don't put value into "owning" it anymore. They simply consume it on-demand, and after it's played, it's gone.

But I feel like this picture is misleading. Firstly, it's a short-term extrapolation. We observe streaming services becoming more popular, we look at software services moving to the cloud, and we project a similar future for music. Secondly, I sense a contradiction between die-hard music fans wanting to identify with their favorite band, wanting to own part of what they love, and merely having access to music like turning on a water faucet. I think it's much more reasonable to assume that the two concepts – streaming music and owning sound recordings – will live side by side for a rather long time.

Which brings me to my final point: Can the concept of owning music be redefined? If digital sound recordings are ubiquitous, readily available, and replicable at zero cost and loss of quality, how can we even speak of owning something any more? Which is why I'm so glad to see services like Sellaband enrich the music ecosystem. They provide fans the opportunity to develop a more meaningful connection with their favorite artists, and the fans can feel like they own more than just access to a sound recording.

Of course, with Popcuts, we aim to do just that, as well: We want to extend the sense of ownership. When you buy a song, and it's in your interest that that song does well and becomes popular, it's a whole different game. You can brag about discovering a band early, or silently enjoy the satisfaction of being a great trendspotter. But it's more than the mere, passive "access" to music. Because music's not water.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:30:00 -0700 all2gethernow: A new kind of music conference http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/09/13/all2gethernow-a-new-kind-of-music-conference http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/09/13/all2gethernow-a-new-kind-of-music-conference

Popkomm used to be Germany's premier music conference, originating in Cologne and more recently held in Berlin annually. However, this year, the event was canceled.

But it turns out, that's not neccessarily bad: In an impressive show of determination, creativity and organizational talent, Berliners from all backgrounds have scrambled to replace Popkomm with something more contemporary, more open-source and more flexible. Dubbed all2gethernow, next week in Berlin will be all about determining where the music ecosystem is heading and what can be done to navigate out of its crisis.

Popcuts is proud to be there. At the bar-camp-style part of the event, on September 16 and 17, there will be a Popcuts booth, but we're also hosting a roundtable discussion about

Music Access vs. Ownership –  What does it mean to 'own' music these days?

We hope to spark a discussion about the fading sense of ownership in music. If digital recordings are readily available at practically zero cost, what's the difference between owning a song and having access to it? We want to explore ways to make owning a recording meaningful again (and of course, being Popcuts, we have some ideas of our own).

In cooperation with Petar Djekic from mufin on Thursday, September 17 at 12.30pm.

See the full #camp schedule here.

Let us know if you're coming!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:22:00 -0700 Help us get on a Panel at next year's SXSW! Win a free SXSW pass! http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/08/20/help-us-get-on-a-panel-at-next-years-sxsw-win-a-free-sxsw-pass http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/08/20/help-us-get-on-a-panel-at-next-years-sxsw-win-a-free-sxsw-pass

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We've been nominated as panelists for next year's SXSW Music. Giannii, a community manager at Disqus and composer, is spearheading a session about "The Evolution of Music." We seek to bring together artists and people from the online music space to determine where things are headed. Other speakers would be eMusic, Paul Dateh and Soundcloud.  A lot of panels at SXSW Interactive have thrown around new models for music, but we're excited to be embraced by the rockstars at SXSW Music.

But we need your help getting there! Please take a minute to register and vote at the SXSW Panel Picker. You'll have to sign up, and we'd be really grateful if you did!

To vote, visit: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4980

To sweeten the deal a little bit, we're giving away prizes for people who vote for us! To participate in the raffle, simply send an email to sxsw@popcuts.com, telling us that you've voted in support of our panel (honor system!).  First prize will win $50 in Amazon Gift Certificates.  Second prize will win $50 in Popcuts credit.  And Third prize will win a gift package complete with Popcuts gear, autographed albums, and free concert tickets! If you're a winner, you'll hear back from us by September 6.

And the Bonus Prize: If this panel makes the final cut, we'll give away a free pass to SXSW (either Interactive or Music – your choice) to one randomly drawn participant!

Thanks, and we hope to see you in Austin next year!

Team Popcuts

EDIT: Voting got extended till 11:59 CST on Monday evening, September 7. We'll let winners know after that!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:43:00 -0700 New leaderboard live http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/06/12/new-leaderboard-live http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/06/12/new-leaderboard-live

In our latest release, we made some significant changes to the user leaderboards on Popcuts. Our primary view now shows who's been doing particularly well recently (that is, which of our users have earned the most rewards in the last month). We did this mainly to make it easier for newcomers to get noticed and emphasize that everyone can profit from buying cool songs early!

In addition, we now have a view called "Smartest Buyers" where we show those that have the best spending-earning ratio.

We're curious to hear your feedback on the revised People page, and we're always open to suggestions and ideas, especially if they enable our users to get a better view of our data!

Team Popcuts

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:04:19 -0700 Welcoming UFO Music to Popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/06/08/welcoming-ufo-music-to-popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/06/08/welcoming-ufo-music-to-popcuts We're happy to announce we've entered into a partnership with United For Opportunity, a label and distributor out of New York City.  UFO is a ground-breaking group of activists who have broken the old mold of record label.
We'll be rolling out the UFO Music catalog over the next months, starting with some great stuff by cutting edge new artists as well as some classics that are just begging to be rediscovered by fans new and old.  We've got music by jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, R&B star Luther Vandross and sensational hip-hop artist Nate Dogg. Here's a photo of Dizzy being Dizzy:
And of our most exciting artists is Celtic rock band Enter The Haggis.  Check out "Lancaster Gate" off their album "Soapbox Heroes."
That's all for now, we're always on the lookout for new music that you'll love.  So stay tuned.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Wed, 13 May 2009 12:50:48 -0700 Exciting new music on Popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/05/13/exciting-new-music-on-popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/05/13/exciting-new-music-on-popcuts
With spring kicking in in full force, let us give you an update on some exciting new releases on Popcuts: Just in time for the Lost season finale, we've added Operation Aloha, a joint venture by members of Maroon 5, Gomez and Phantom Planet, among others. A total of 14 musicians met up in Hawaii in between tours to record their self-released and self-titled debut.
Staying in line with our beach theme, also just released: The Beach Girl5's self-titled debut! Geared at the younger audience, The Beach Girl5 consists of Mandy Jiroux (best known as a featured dancer for Miley Cyrus and star of YouTube's "The Miley and Mandy Show"), Brooke Adams, Dominique Domingo, Noreen Juliano, and Laura New, with songs produced by the hit-making music team of Antonina Armato and Tim James (Miley Cyrus, Mariah Carey). On the other coast, Aaron LaCrate has been promoting Baltimore's sound into the world for years. His latest track is a wonderful breaky remix of The Pharcyde's Soul Flower. Enjoy!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:27:52 -0700 Best of SXSW, Part 2 http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/04/02/best-of-sxsw-part-2 http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/04/02/best-of-sxsw-part-2 Welcome back to our second installment of Best of SXSW, our roundup of cool people we met in Austin! After Accelerator, we celebrated for a bit at Habana. Only, I had no idea what anything on the menu was, so we kept changing our orders quite a bit. Luckily, we had Molly Ryan as our waiter. She didn't care, and demonstrated extreme patience with the SXSW crowd.
So Molly was one of the first to receive an award, the Popcuts Award for Extreme Patience! One of the first shows we saw at SXSW Music was Themselves at the Red Seven. Fun stuff. Outside, we met a couple of pretty serious media people. For instance, music blogger Dave Evans, who was wearing a camera that could easily hold three cans of PBR.
So Dave earned the Largest Camera award. On Wednesday morning, we had coffee with Alexis from Reddit. And we couldn't help but notice this awesome hot dog hat he was wearing.
So the award for Best Hat goes to Alexis! Congratulations. Later that night, we headed over to Tiniest Bar in Texas, which quickly also became our favorite bar in Texas. Not only did we love the setup: a tiny shack with an outdoor area crammed between condo skyscrapers popping up everywhere around. We also loved some of the Southern electro bands that later played there: Roy G And The Biv from Denton, Texas, Culture Prophet from North Carolina, and Glasnost from Houston. In the audience, we met Arriel. When he first bragged about his dancing skills, we didn't believe him and dared him to a dance-off.
But it turned out he wasn't lying. To the contrary - Arriel sure did rock everyone's face off. So the Popcuts Award for Rocking Everyone's Face Off goes to Arriel. Well done! And one more outfit award: When we visited the Whole Foods flagship store in Austin, we spotted Trixie at the salad bar and noticed her awesome cowboy boots. We tracked her down in front of the store and handed her the award for Best Cowboy Boots. She was excited!
That's it for today. We'll be back with more Best of SXSW this weekend. Enjoy your day!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:49:12 -0700 Best of SXSW, Part 1 http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/03/30/best-of-sxsw-part-1 http://blog.popcuts.com/~hhe/wordpress/2009/03/30/best-of-sxsw-part-1 Well, that was fun. SXSW is over, and boy, we had a good time. Not only did we win Accelerator, we also caught a ton of cool shows, and met some incredibly nice and interesting people there. Looks like everyone's doing a Best of SXSW writeup, so here is ours: We noticed everyone at SXSW is basically just trying to get noticed. By being on or hosting panels, by playing shows, or by wearing funny hats. Of course, some ways to get noticed are more amusing than others, and we thought we'd honor some of these. So we decided to hand out individual Best of SXSW awards to noteworthy people. And this post is the first in a series that documents the winners. Stay tuned for more!
(Example of our awards. They come with a free song.) This is Bridget, one of the throng of helpful SXSW volunteers:
After panels ended, it was usually time to head over to the Registrant's Lounge across the street from the Austin Hilton, which was basically a fenced-off park with free booze for badgeholders. Good place to unwind, think about something other than blogging and social media for a change, and get some sun for the first time in the day. Too bad it only opened at 5pm. But not to worry - there was Bridget, who let us in early because she was just nice like that. She also hooked us up with an extra drink coupon. So the Popcuts Award for Best SXSW Staff / Volunteer was an easy choice for us!
Veteran music recommendation researcher Paul Lamere (ex Sun Labs, now with the Echo Nest) led a panel named "Help! My iPod thinks I'm emo!". It was both insightful and hilarious at times. Our favorite slide was his example of what a "freakommendation" is: People who buy Pat Robertson's book also shopped for The Ultimate Guide for Anal Sex for Men. So Paul totally earned the Popcuts award for Most Hilarious Panelist.
For the very last timeslot of SXSW Interactive, we headed to a roundtable discussion titled Music 2.0 = Music Discovery Chaos? Also in the audience was Tim Malbon, who caught our attention because he dared to ask the question of questions (and we have to paraphrase here): "Is music discovery really such a huge problem? I don't see people running around on the street screaming 'I can't discover new music!'". So Tim got our award for Ballsiest Question to a Panelist.
Speaking of music recommendation: A few months ago in Berlin, we ran into Petar Djekic at the booth of a cool new music recommendation startup called mufin. We saw Petar again here at SXSW and hung out for a while. And after getting us into Berlin Fest (which featured free beer and sausages), and giving us tips on a ton of other fun stuff, we decided Petar deserves the  award for Extreme Generosity.
At Berlin Fest, we met Judith Govey from the British Music Embassy. Their mission is to promote British music in the rest of the world, which sounds like a pretty kickass thing to do. Judith received our award for Most Pieces of Flare because we noticed she was wearing way more than the minimum of 17! Because Judith knows that people can get a song anywhere. She even gave us a button to keep. We'll be posting more of the award-winning people we met in Austin!  Signing off from Berkeley!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:04:00 -0700 Popcuts wins SXSW Accelerator http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/03/17/popcuts-wins-sxsw-accelerator http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/03/17/popcuts-wins-sxsw-accelerator
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We're thrilled to announce that Popcuts was declared winner of the music category at SXSW Accelerator yesterday! The jury found Popcuts most likely to succeed and disrupt the current music distribution landscape. The contest was hosted by former Wired editor Brad King and by Guy Kawasaki. Judges included iLike CEO Ali Partovi and Elliott Hurst of supernova.com. SXSW Accelerator was designed to discover the best young talent and the most creative new ideas. Other category winners include Weardrobe (social networking), TubeMogul (online video) and Ribbit (innovative web technologies). For press inquiries, please contact press@popcuts.com. Photo gallery of Popcuts at the award ceremony (courtesy of the Austin American-Statesman)

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:18:52 -0800 Popcuts gets a makeover http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/03/06/popcuts-gets-a-makeover http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/03/06/popcuts-gets-a-makeover
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This morning, we released an all-new, shiny user interface for Popcuts. We've spiced up the look and implemented lots of little and big improvements to usability, functionality and performance. The general site structure stays the same, but the new look gives us a foundation to roll out new features over the next couple of months. One thing we've learned is that it's a lot more fun to browse music by looking at cover art. So we increased the size of song covers in our list views and put a cover zoom function everywhere. Still to come: An entirely, cover-based section to browse music. We unified the way the rewards for a given song are presented: In the new version, a little dollar icon next to the preview button brings up a table with a "profit preview" for the song. For those who like to buy whole albums, we've added a shortcut for that. By popular request, we moved an overview of the newest releases to front page. And we added a news ticker with the most recent user events there, too (such as reviews, purchases, recommendations etc.). Now, you can get a sense of what's going on on the site just by glancing at the Popcuts front page. Finally, we brought back an old favorite of ours: the slightly tilted logo. In combination with the dancing equalizer bars, we feel it's much more suited for a site that's all about music. We thank you, our users, for all your support and hope you enjoy the new site! And do let us know if you'll be at SXSW! Team Popcuts P.S.: Thanks, Simon Beckmann, for laying down the design vision, implementing countless screens, navigating around IE6 hell and just being of great help!
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:55:40 -0800 On our way to Austin http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/02/24/on-our-way-to-austin http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/02/24/on-our-way-to-austin
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As you may have heard, we made it into the final four contestants in the music category of SXSW Accelerator, a new kind of technology showcase, similar to Demo or TC 50. The "event showcases some of the web's most exciting new innovations, enabling the entrepreneurial visionaries behind these new products to demo their creations in front of a live audience of industry professionals and technology trend-settters." (sxsw.com) Are you going to Austin this year? Let us know! Because we'd love to meet our fans, artists, and partners. Also, we're compiling a list of Popcuts artists who are performing during SXSW. Here are a few we could find, so expect to see us there! See you in Austin! Team Popcuts

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:51:18 -0800 Thanks for your feedback! http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/02/20/thanks-for-your-feedback http://blog.popcuts.com/2009/02/20/thanks-for-your-feedback Last winter, we asked for your feedback in an extensive survey. We've gathered lots of insightful responses, and we're currently working to incorporate many of the findings into our new design, which is due live next month. As promised, we did draw one lucky respondant in a raffle for our prize of 20 songs on Popcuts. The winner has been notified. Congratulations! We'd like to thank everyone who participated and hope to see you back on our site soon! Team Popcuts

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:33:00 -0800 Give some last-minute Holiday Love on Popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/2008/12/22/give-some-last-minute-holiday-love-on-popcuts http://blog.popcuts.com/2008/12/22/give-some-last-minute-holiday-love-on-popcuts
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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. Enjoy your holidays! Team Popcuts

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:10:05 -0800 It's official: We're HOT! http://blog.popcuts.com/2008/12/17/its-official-were-hot http://blog.popcuts.com/2008/12/17/its-official-were-hot
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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.   Check out the full Top 100 here: Link And their piece on Books, Film & Music: Link There's still plenty of work to do, so we're not going to stop to gloat.  But thanks to all who nominated us and encourage us to keep going every day.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/896110/face160_reasonably_small.gif http://posterous.com/users/4BKwzx1q Hannes Hannes Hannes Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:17:54 -0700 Welcome Santogold! http://blog.popcuts.com/2008/10/07/welcome-santogold http://blog.popcuts.com/2008/10/07/welcome-santogold
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Over the last days, we released a great deal of new music on Popcuts - for example Stevie Scott, Fannius III, Alexa Ray Joel and Jason Schwartzman a.k.a. Coconut Records. And this one, we're particularly excited about: We're thrilled to announce that we've added Santogold's debut album to Popcuts today! If you don't know her yet: She's the hot shit – her sound has been compared with M.I.A., but it's actually much more versatile than that (for a more upbeat track, check out L.E.S. Artistes). For those of you in the Bay Area: She's playing at The Fillmore tonight (Tuesday)! Catch us there!

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