January 2012
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Downtime, Hangout Time, Swag Time
Maintenance!
Hello! We have some good news and a spot of warning: The good news is that we are shuffling some servers from our Jacksonville data center to our Denver data center so we can continue to maintain and implement the efficient deployments of fixes, updates, and new features that we provide to the site on a regular basis. The warning is that, in order to institute...
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Throwback Themes
Sheer aesthetic awesomness for your thematic desires!
All about those various custom themes you have access to pick from with your Grooveshark subscription? We’re pretty excited about some of the themes that we’ve been adding lately, so it seemed a great opportunity to share! Without further adieu, we present three old themes brought back by popular demand, Fall, Cugini the...
Nacional Double Feature
Ritmo Machine
Featured release: Welcome to the Ritmo Machine
Cypress Hill percussionist Eric Bobo and Chilean beatmaker Latin Bitman, the two main minds behind Ritmo Machine, both have their niche talents — Eric is a seasoned and talented musician, at his best making Latin percussion sing or generating driving beats from behind the drum kit, notably hip hop, Latin, and jazz....
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Please join us in the fight to stop censorship on the net. Don’t be silenced.
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The Man with the Golden Playlist
Introducing ToGrooveshark. This awesome, free utility empowers the modern playlist aficionado to import and organize their Spotify playlists on Grooveshark. Who doesn’t love having their favorite playlists organized in one place for easy access and better organization, right? Peep the process below to see how simple it is!
Step One, Grooveshark Login.
Enter your...
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M A N by MondreMAN
Meet MondreMAN, one half of the swag and talent behind the dope duo Main Attrakionz. Mondre’s partnered with some of the best underground producers to be found in the hip hop scene in order to drop his newest release, M A N. Grooveshark recently had the chance to interview Mondre. In keeping with the gravity of awesomeness put into producing the album, Mondre decided to answer the...
We're Breaking Teh Internets!
In an effort to span over this confounded series of tubes and reach as many mobile music listeners as we can, we’ve done the unthinkable.
iOS? We got there.
Android 2.3+? We got there.
Playbook? We got there.
TouchPad? Yep. There too.
Should you choose to accept your mission:
http://html5.grooveshark.com #soopersecretbeta.
!!! For covert ops points, try it on an html5 device...
Happy Tuesday, Grooveworld!
Looking to find the latest and most relevant jams? As you know, we are constantly thinking up new ways for you to explore, discover, and fall in love with new music and artists. To kick off the new year we’ve created a whole section on the Explore page consisting of playlists created exclusively on Grooveshark by some of your favorite Artists, Blogs, and Tastemakers. You’ll find over...
Featured Friday!
It’s our favorite day of the week in Grooveworld! Friday, Friday, Friday!
Fridays mean our Featured section is all new, complete with new artists that we are featuring this week as well as new releases! We’ve even put together a sampler Playlist for you below!
In addition to all of the new releases and artists, we wanted to show you all of the incredible site themes that...
Artist of the Week: Brad Cooper
The handsome and talented Brad Cooper is our first featured artist of 2012!
Brad, a singer-songwriter, effortlessly combines his intimate voice and soulful lyrics with a seamless combination of pop, soul, and R&B. Trained in classical piano since the age of five, he waited to vigorously pursue his career in music while studying at Texas A&M University.
Brad found success when his...
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Tuesday's Tips!
New year… new music!
We all find ourselves sometimes listening to the same songs over and over again, in need of new tunes. In addition to recommending music here and on our Facebook and Twitter pages, there are really unique ways for you to find music on Grooveshark! This week we have three tips for you on how to discover new music!
1. Did you know about the Similar Artists feature on...
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Saying, "I do", With Grooveshark!
Every now and again, we will get a Grooveshark fan making requests for t-shirts, free Grooveshark Anywhere, or maybe a shot glass…
This was the first time Grooveshark was ever requested at a wedding!
Roy, a super Shark, shares his truly incredible story with us about how his sister and brother-in-law incorporated Grooveshark in one of the most important days of their lives! We continue to...
December 2011
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12 Acts For 2012!
With only a few hours left of 2011, we thought the best way to kick off the new year is with music!
Best of 2011 lists are buzzing all over the internet, so we wanted to put our spin on the year’s end and share our glimpse of the future. We picked 12 artists we believe are going to have great year. The list was a tough one to narrow down, and the artists are in no particular order.
Without...
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Grooveshark Introduces Vanessa Bley!
Hey Sharks, happy Thursday!
We are thrilled to announce a partnership between Grooveshark and world-renowned musician management company, Crush Management, featuring emerging artist, Vanessa Bley!
Crush Management is home to many acts including Cobra Starship, Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, Panic! At The Disco, Train, and now Vanessa Bley.
Vanessa Bley just mastered her debut record on which...
Artist of the Week: Kill The Noise
There is some goodness we’d like to share with you this week by the name of Kill The Noise.
Jake “Ewun” Stanczak is our Artist of the Week in light of the explosion of this electro project, Kill The Noise.
He is gaining tons of recognition in the electro house world with a recent record label with DJ Craze, touring worldwide, and an invitation to tour with Tiesto on the...
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Tuesday's Tips: New Year's Edition
If you don’t already know about today’s tip, it may just blow your mind… are you ready?
For all of you sharks that love to party, workout, and/or preview music, allow me to introduce you to your new best friend, Power Hour Mode.
Power Hour Mode is a premium feature that plays every song in your playlist or queue for :60! All you have to do is:
1. Create or listen to a...
Only Five Days Left!
Until 2012!
As excited as we are for the new year, this means there are only five days left to take advantage of the Grooveshark Holiday Specials!
For only five more days you can upgrade your Grooveshark account or a friend’s Grooveshark account for a discounted price now that will last all year! You can get Grooveshark Plus for $3/month (usually $6/month) and Grooveshark Anywhere for...
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Best Music of 2011
Even sharks need new jams to mix it up sometimes!
When in need, we head over to Indie Music Filter, Pretty Much Amazing, and Music Hype. These three music blogs always give great tunes, videos, new realeases, and much more.
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a very musical trip down memory lane. Join us, won’t you? Check out their Grooveshark playlists of the Best Music of 2011...
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Grooveshark Swag!
We have more awesome news for the holidays!
In addition to the premium Grooveshark subscriptions being on discount at this store, we have expanded our online store!
Have you visited the Grooveshark store lately? It is now complete with the softest, smoothest, best-looking t-shirts available anywhere, digital EPs, shades, exclusive discounts, and much more! To get outfitted in the coolest...
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Grooveshark Artist Profiler: A-Trak
Grooveshark had the opportunity to sit down and chat with world-renowned DJ A-Trak at DeLuna Fest 2011! Check out the exclusive interview where A-Trak gives insight to life as a DJ, his record label Fool’s Gold, and his creative method behind smash hit “Barbara Streisand”.
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Tuesday's Tips!
Hey Sharks! It’s the second week of Tuesday’s Tips in Grooveworld and in the spirit of the season we are giving you tips on how to give Grooveshark as a gift!
To give your friend or loved one an incredibly unique, cool, seriously discounted, and thoughtful gift, just follow these 7 easy steps:
1. Click here to head over to our holiday site theme where the gifting begins!
2. Click...
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Grooveshark Jam Session
We caught some sharks making jam at the Grooveshark Headquarters in Gainesville, Fla. Enjoy some of our very own talent!
Featured Friday!
We’re celebrating this Friday by jamming to all the great new music that is featured on Grooveshark!
Spice up your week with some rockin’ new tunes from the Explore page under the Featured tab! Let us know what your favorites are. Have a great weekend, sharks!
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Theme Thursday: Holiday Edition!
Happy holidays, Grooveworld! Have we mentioned that we are really excited that it’s the holiday season? Have you seen our totally sweet holiday site theme on Grooveshark?
All of our site themes are near and dear to us but this site theme is super special! Not only is it lovely to look at but there are so many awesome things you can do on it!
You can treat yourself and upgrade your...
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Want to Work for Grooveshark?
Do you happen to be a PHP Developer that loves music, a laid back environment, and delicious food?
Grooveshark is on the hunt for a PHP Developer located in the United States that is willing to head over to our headquarters in Gainesville, Fla.!
Responsibilities will include:
Maintain existing PHP code and API.
Create new features and improve upon existing ones.
Improve on the speed,...
Grooveshark Artist Profiler: Every
This week’s Artist Profiler is going where no Artist Profiler has gone before! We are venturing to the ambient genre with artist, Every.
Down-tempo ambient electronic musician Every has released his debut LP, “Scant Cursory” with Ounce. Music. Every, real name Leif Gann-Matzen, attends RISD in Providence, RI and creates lush genre distorting song that stimulates your senses...
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Tuesday's Tips!
Alliterative fate strikes again! Every Tuesday we will be giving you little tips on how to make your Grooveshark experience even more fantastic!
This week we are sharing six simple and easy keyboard shortcuts to enhance the time you spend jamming with us!
1. Hitting the space bar will play or pause the song you are listening to.
2. Pressing Command/Ctrl + the left arrow key will play the...
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Grooveshark Exclusive: Diplo's "Horsey" Remixed!
A couple of months ago, Grooveshark and Mad Decent came together to give you all a chance to remix Diplo’s “Horsey”, a track off his new project, Mad Decent Vo. 1. Five remixes were chosen to be featured alongside the original track. We are exclusively releasing them today, just to make your Monday a little bit more musical!
The remix EP can be found exclusively on this sweet...
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Bruise Cruise Festival!
In need of a getaway? Bruise Cruise Festival might be exactly what you’re looking for! A cruise that combines a weekend-long music festival with a vacation sailing the high seas from Miami, Fla. to Nassau, Bahamas!
The festival, which sets sail February 10-13, 2012, will include multiple concerts at sea, a party on the Bahamas island, open-bar cocktail hours, a soul dance-off with cash...
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Featured Friday!
It’s Friday and we are celebrating with some new tunes! We are featuring some new artists and new releases to kick off the weekend with!
Check out the Featured section on the Explore page as well as the playlist below for a sample of this week’s featured music. Enjoy and let us know what you think!
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Grooveshark Giveaway: Win Tickets to SnowGlobe...
Want to ring in the new year with Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, and many more at a music festival in South Lake Tahoe, CA? Grooveshark is giving away a pair of tickets to SnowGlobe Music Festival to make that happen!
The three-day festival, lasting from December 29-31, combines music and nature with more than forty-five acts against some of the most incredible mountain views.
To enter to be the...
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Grooveshark Artist Profiler: ArtOfficial
This week we are introducing you to ArtOfficial, a jazz and hip-hop band with a one-of-a-kind sound from Miami, Fla.
ArtOfficial, consisting of two emcees, bass, sax, and keys, creates a timeless mixture of jazz, hip-hop, and soul that have earned them a reputation as extraordinary showmen that according to the Miami New Times “gets butts moving”!
The Basics
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Gift the Shark this Holiday Season!
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better… it does! In addition to the holiday discounts on our premium subscriptions, you can now gift Grooveshark!
You can give your friends and family the gift of 15 million songs by purchasing a discounted subscription through our Merch Store!
Giving the gift of Grooveshark Plus ensures that your friend experiences an ad-free site, access...
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Exclusive Interview: The Kills
We are kicking off this week with a long-time favorite, The Kills.
Our dear friends at Domino Records uncovered this interview, recorded in London, and passed it along to us to unveil to you fine fans. Listen to The Kills duo, Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince, talk about their current album “Blood Pressures”, their influences, how they create music together, playing live, recording in Benton...
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Featured Friday!
Happy Friday, Sharks! Due to alliterative fate, we are introducing Featured Fridays! Have you checked out the Featured tab in the Explore page?
Grooveshark is the place to go to listen to any music you want, but what about the times when you’re bored with your tunes? This page remedies those problems by featuring new releases as well as artists from an array of genres that will mix up...
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Rock Out this Holiday Season
December is finally here and we’re kicking off the holiday season right. From now until the end of December you can get sweet holiday discounts on our premium subscriptions!
For holiday shoppers not in-the-know, Grooveshark Plus removes all ads, gets you access to our desktop app, early access to new Grooveshark features, and tons more cool stuff, now only $3 a month (normally $6 a...
November 2011
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Grooveshark Artist Profiler: Kids These Days
With the ability to blend hip-hop, jazz, soul, blues, and classic rock, Chicago-based band Kids These Days breaks genre boundaries to create a sound uniquely their own.
Influenced by artists such as The Roots, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, and Jimi Hendrix, Kids These Days makes their unparalleled sound come alive with two horns, a rapper, a blues-rock trio, and a female singer. These trained...
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Get 1 Month Free of Grooveshark Plus with Internet...
What is better than Grooveshark? Free Grooveshark! Internet Explorer 9 is feeling generous this holiday season and spreading some Grooveshark love with you!
Internet Explorer 9 is offering users one free month of Grooveshark Plus just for downloading IE9!
Make this month musical with one month free of Grooveshark Plus here!
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Livio Radio Brings Grooveshark to Your Car!
We are thrilled to announce a partnership with Livio Radio that will bring Grooveshark on the road with you! Allow us to introduce to you the first ever in-car app integration, The Grooveshark Kit.
The Grooveshark Kit is a plug-and-play device broadcasts Grooveshark from your Android® phone to any FM car stereo. The Kit also features Bluetooth hands-free calling, USB charging for your phone...
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Thank You!
While all of you may not be celebrating Thanksgiving today, we want to let all of you know how thankful we all are at Grooveshark for you today and every day! We love very single one of you and as a token of our appreciation, we offer you a shark hug!
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Grooveshark Artist Profiler: Rapsody
This week we would like to introduce to you the up-and-coming hip hop artist, Rapsody. You may recognize the name from our recent Stankonia Sessions Mixtape where she dropped a verse on 9th Wonder’s Part of the Game. Rapsody’s a female rapper who stands out amongst the crowd with her unique rhyme patterns, wordplay and use of metaphors which resonate in her latest project, For...
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Vote Grooveshark as Best Music/Service App!
Have I told you lately that I love you?
If you love Grooveshark as much as we love you, we hope you will click here or the badge below to vote for Grooveshark as the Best Music/Service App in the 5th Annual Mashable Awards! Help us go from finalists to winners! The winners will be announced on December 19th and we hope that we can celebrate winning with you!
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Grooveshark Goes Virtual With DJparty.fm!
For all those nights when all you wanted to do was go dancing and no one wanted to go with you… there is a solution, and Grooveshark is a part of it!
Grooveshark is now powering DJparty.fm, a new, free, social music discovery site! DJparty.fm is a 3D music experience that allows you to create your own fully animated avatar, discover and play music, create your own personal playlist, become a...
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Grooveshark Releases Exclusive A3C Mixtape!
To all of our users who love to get down to some Rap and Hip Hop… you have not been forgotten! In your honor, a few sharks headed up to Atlanta during the AC3 Hip Hop Festival and rented out the legendary Stankonia Studios to give musical birth to a new mixtape: Grooveshark Presents… Stankonia Sessions: A3C Edition (Hosted by Royal Flush and SMKA).
The seven-track mixtape, a group effort...
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Grooveshark Artist Profiler: Hundred Waters
This week’s Artist Profiler is going local! We have decided to feature Hundred Waters, a favorite, local band from Gainesville, Fla. where Grooveshark’s headquarters are located.
Hundred Waters is a band formed of fate. Having been dear friends since childhood with musical releases under many different names, Hundred Waters is the butterfly hatched from those extensive past...
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Get To Know The All-New Grooveshark!
After months of everyone at the shark tank working ‘round the clock to bring you a brand new user experience, we’re extremely excited to bring you all a complete redesign of Grooveshark! The all-new Grooveshark has arrived—a sleeker, more seamless experience with a powerful combination of streaming music and social networking.
Music is a universal language that inspires and...
Grooveshark Revolutionized!
After six long months of hard work and innovation we are excited to give you an 11/11/11 surprise! We would like to introduce to you the completely redesigned and new Grooveshark!
Stay tuned for complete details about the site redesign on Monday!
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Diplo Visits Grooveshark!
One of our very favorite artists and world-renowned DJs, Diplo, stopped by the Grooveshark Headquarters in Gainesville today! We’re huge fans of Diplo and we were thrilled to hang out with him before his show tonight.
Diplo hanging with some sharks in the Grooveshark kitchen.
Chef by day… DJ by night?
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Grooveshark Artist Profiler: J. Viewz
Grooveshark would like to introduce you to the up-and-coming music of J.Viewz, a multi-genre electronic project brought together under the direction of Brooklyn-based producer and songwriter Jonathan Dagan.
J.Viewz has found a way to mix electronica, pop, R&B, indie, and rock in a way that resonates with a broad range of people with an array of musical tastes. With no active promotion,...
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