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New Music … and Contest!

Here’s some awesome new tunes we’ve been blasting in the office and we recommend you check out:

Julian Casablancas- the Strokes frontman has a new record out called “Phrazes For the Young” which, he said he did to keep from getting bored. Well, for whatever reason, we like it. It’s got a hint of the Stroke-esque [...]

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Concerts: SXSW

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

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 [...]

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New Listen – Bon Iver, Blood Bank EP

Familiar imagery of cold weather and private conversations, but this time – Bon Iver (the project of singer-songwriter Justin Vernon) journeys further out of the bitter isolation of For Emma, Forever Ago and moves into different, more defined soundscapes.rnrnThe title track from the EP, makes donating blood seem like the perfect setting for romantic intermissions, [...]

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