| Jack Conte | |
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| Born | San Francisco, California |
| Genres | Electro-acoustic Indie rock Alternative Jazz |
| Occupations | Musician Singer Songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals Acoustic guitar Piano Keyboards Percussion Electric bass guitar Accordion Drums Ukulele Organ Glockenspiel Synthesizer Melodica Electric guitar Acoustic bass guitar |
| Years active | 2007—present |
| Labels | Unsigned |
| Associated acts | Pomplamoose, Nataly Dawn, Julia Nunes, Wade Johnston, Danielle Ate The Sandwich, Ryan Lerman, Louise Cole, Ben Grant |
| Website | Official Website |
Jack Conte is a multi-instrumentalist, song-writer, and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area who lives off of the sale of MP3s online.[1] Conte has recorded two EPs - Sleep in Color and Nightmares and Daydreams and released them along with the compilation VideoSongs Volume I through the iTunes Store.[2]. Conte's use of Electro-Harmonix audio equipment has been featured by the company in several different videos.[3][4][5] His music has regularly been featured on the front page of Digg and Reddit.
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Conte first gained widespread attention when his video Yeah Yeah Yeah was featured on YouTube's main page.[6] The video, animated in stop motion, has garnered over 500,000 views as of July 2009. The majority of his new music is released as singles posted to YouTube. These mostly take the form of "VideoSongs", a medium he defines with two rules:
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Conte formed the band Pomplamoose with his girlfriend Nataly Dawn in Summer 2008[8][9] . The band's presence is primarily online, having only performed a handful of live shows. Nevertheless, the collaboration has garnered significant fan support. Fueled by the feature of their video Hail Mary on the main page of YouTube, Pomplamoose's channel has about 95,000 subscribers as of March 2010. The band recently produced the next studio album of Julia Nunes.
Much of Conte's work has been met with positive review, citing evocative lyrics in Sleep in Color[6], creative delivery of his videosongs[10] and the tenacity to create his own niche in the Internet music market.[11] However, Conte's music was reviewed less favorably by Amplifier magazine: "Hints of Conor Oberst, Radiohead, Patrick Watson, contemporary punk rock (screamo), radio power pop, and incalculable other singer songwriters are more than borrowed, making for a short mishmash of electro rock."[12]
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