You may have noticed that when we launched the new cool homepage on Monday, we did so with a new featured artist - Taylor Hicks! We’re really excited Taylor spoke with us about his music, Daughtry and McPhee, Ray Charles, his other influences, and what he’s listening to these days.
Soul Patrol!
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting SpotDJ at Christian Perry’s SF Beta. What a fantastic crowd - over 200 folks packed into 111 Minna to meet and mingle.
For those unfamiliar with SF Beta, presenting companies not only give short descriptions of the business but also present a limerick about their company. […]
We’ve been adding great new stuff to SpotDJ with such rapid fervor that we almost forgot to blog about all the new features! This isn’t an exhaustive list of all the new stuff, but here are some of the highlights:
Record Your Spots Through the Web
If you’ve ever woken up on a ratty couch in a […]
We’ve recently begun hosting Bay area bands in our offices on Friday afternoons for some drinks and to record spots about their music.
This past Friday the hot band Scissors for Lefty dropped by (have you seen their Billboard and Spin write-ups?). Check out this spot they recorded about their next San Francisco show at […]
You, the SpotDJ community, have spoken and awarded Carlson grand prize in SpotDJ’s first Hot Spot contest with his “dildo” spot on Steely Dan’s “Cousin Dupree.” Hear it for yourself here:
Spot: Cousin Dupree
Other terrific spots that were finalists in the contest were spots from Candeelion, Scott Parent, HowardGr, […]
Good news SpotDJ fans - the famous SpotDJ cactus (known for his darting looks and “Crazy!” interjections) made his public debut at MacWorld yesterday. Take a look at how handsome he is!
SpotDJ’s cactus mascot, who we’ve named Loco (after his eyes and favorite English word), will continue to make appearances in your iTunes and […]
SpotDJ was on the top of yesterday’s NBC TechNow! We led the half-hour segment with a solid 3 minute product tour of SpotDJ.
Featured in the show are SpotDJ’s Ben Fong-Torres with this spot about U2 and Scott Parent with this spot from Fall Out Boy.
Watch for yourself!
Grant is disappointed that there’s no hedcut of him in today’s Wall Street Journal article. However, you will find him quoted in today’s front page story about our building, saying:
“On this floor, companies have pretty sane business ideas,” says Grant Goodale, a product architect at SpotDJ, a 10-month-old business with three employees. “Nobody has […]
SpotDJ was mentioned in today’s Rolling Stone magazine! We’re in the December 14, 2006 issue along with Snoop Dogg, My Chemical Romance, and Tenacios D.
Rolling Stone covers our launch, in which writer Nicole Frehsee describes the service as well as highlights this spot by Ben Fong-Torres where Iggy Pop talks about Jim Morrison’s impact […]
I spent the last 3 days in Vancouver at the Transmission music conference, showcase and festival. This was the first year for the event, which is the brainchild of Tyl van Toorn and Brad Josling and was chaired by Laura Foti Cohen and Ted Cohen (who sits on SpotDJ’s board of advisors).
Thursday morning […]