Category Archives: Artists We Digg

SXSW 2010: TuneUp’s Picks

By tiffany | Published: March 16, 2010

Ahhh yes… it’s that time again. With parties abound, cool kids unite, and Austin suddenly becomes the epicenter of radness. Once again, TuneUp (and it’s dedicated minions) shall not be attending - BUT that doesn’t mean we don’t have some opinions on who to check out… we are, afterall, a bunch of music junkies. So [...]

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This is how we roll…

By tiffany | Published: July 29, 2009

Recently, one of our younger TuneUppers stopped by the HQ to accompany us on the keyboard. And later, to show us the lyrical ropes of “Sweet Home Alabama”. These videos speak for themselves… he’s a rockstar!

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Now Playing: Nylon’s Summer Playlist

By tiffany | Published: June 5, 2009

For anyone who has the itch for a sweet summer mixtape of new jams, you must check out Nylon magazine’s free iTunes playlist. Download the tracks and turn them up! Like a cool glass of lemonade - here are our top picks off the 22-track listing. You can listen along with the playlist below:

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Concerts: SXSW

By tiffany | Published: March 20, 2009

Okay – so here’s the deal, we have a lot to do. Seriously. Releasing updates, preparing and engineering exciting features, and overall making sure TuneUp is as rad as possible means that no one could be pulled away from the HQ to go to the awesome festivities in Austin for SXSW 2009. Of course that [...]

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Now Playing: Dark Was The Night

By tiffany | Published: March 4, 2009

The Red Hot 2-disc Compilation of ‘Dark Was the Night’ has thirty-one tracks. Thirty-one. That’s a typical classroom population, more than a few handfuls, and pushing usual audio overdose. And yet, somehow, all thirty-one songs are good; some of them great, and even more importantly, they all correspond atmospherically with one another. ‘Dark Was the [...]