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Our coverage of Denver's Mile High Music Festival
Beautiful Denver, Colorado was the site for last weekend's Mile High Music Festival, a two-day extravaganza of live music and veggie burritos. We got to spend time with several musicians at the fest:
Boombox
Danielle Ate The Sandwich
Drive-by Truckers (Patterson Hood)
Mayer Hawthorne & the County
The Motet (Dave Watts)
John Oates (of Hall & Oates)
One eskimO
Phoenix
Joe Purdy
Railroad Earth
Tim Reynolds (of TR3 & Dave Matthews Band)
Slightly Stoopid (Miles Doughty)
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi
Weezer
Z-Trip
To access all of our artist interviews at festivals and live shows, follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our YouTube channel. Next up? Austin City Limits in October.
CLARIFICATION ON HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO AT BOTTOM:
Dear Listeners -
We'd like to hear - and see! - what you think and have to say about Pandora. We're putting together a fun video piece of user-submitted videos about your experiences with Pandora: what it does for you during your day, a special moment, what it means to you, your friends, your family - anything fun or funny or special about Pandora that you'd like to tape and share and send in, please do! This can be just you, a group of friends, a class, team, office, troupe - any combination you can think of. We'll turn them into a thoughtful, tasteful, and joyful montage of our listeners.
Of course, this great idea has a limited time frame - we need all videos in by WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18TH NOON PACIFIC TIME - short time frame, we know, but we think you're up for the challenge! Our only requirement is that you keep it clean and under thirty seconds.
As an extra thanks, we'll be sending t-shirts to the creators of the first 50 submissions (be sure to give us your mailing address and shirt size(s)). We ask that you read and complete the legal form that lets us use your video, and send the completed form in with your video - without that form, we can't use your video.
Thanks and looking forward to hearing and seeing your creations!
-Tim (Founder)
Update on how to submit:
The only way to submit your video is to click on the yellow "ACCEPT" at the bottom of the submission/legal form. When you click the "ACCEPT" button, an email opens to which you can attach your video and send to us.
Dear Listeners,
We've just updated our site to make it easier for you to find and adjust your privacy settings. We thought it was important to make this adjustment to better reflect the realities of the internet today. If you're a returning listener you've probably already seen a reminder about your Pandora profile page, something we've offered since we launched.
This reminder provides you with the immediate opportunity to see your profile, make it public, private, or learn more. If you click on 'Learn More,' you'll be taken to some FAQs.
New listeners will see a similar message when they register and we're in the process of sending emails to the folks who listen to Pandora exclusively on mobile devices, encouraging them to access their Pandora account on a computer to check out our new privacy features.
All profile pages on Pandora now have a prominent 'Privacy Settings' link on the upper right. These settings let you specify how public you want your profile to be and, if you're a Facebook user - whether or not you'd like to import your information from Facebook to Pandora.
We're big believers in the social aspect of music discovery and sharing and want to make it as easy as possible, but we also want to make sure we respect each listeners' personal comfort when it comes to this. It is our sincere hope that this new format does just that!
As always - we welcome your feedback about this. It's a very important issue to us and we want to get it right.
Thanks for taking the time to read this through - and keep on listening!
- Tim (Founder)
Artist interviews - the Avett Brothers, Colbie Caillat and more
Louisville, Kentucky was home to the HullabaLOU festival this weekend, and it was a corker - a fandango, a high-class hoedown. Churchill Downs played host, as they do for the Kentucky Derby every year. Some of the artists who sat down with us:
The Avett Brothers
Sam Bush
Dierks Bentley
Colbie Caillat
Andrea Davidson
Ben Folds
Gloriana
Gov't Mule
Brigid Kaelin
Michael Johnathon
Michael McDonald
Taddy Porter
Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet
.38 Special
Tonic
The Villebillies
Rhonda Vincent
Last weekend, our festival coverage feed included interviews with many of the artists performing at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Lots of mud, lots of sunscreen, and several truckloads of great musicians. Here are some of the highlights from those interviews:
Next up in late July is HullabaLOU in Louisville, Kentucky; here's a handy HullabaLOU guide to help you figure out which acts you might like. Stay tuned on Twitter for more coverage, and let us know any questions you have for these musicians -- we'll do our best to include listener questions.
Upcoming Town Halls in Denver and Atlanta
Hey all -
We're having Pandora town-halls in Denver and Atlanta next week. If you're in one of those cities and haven't gotten your email invite, send a note to 'tour@pandora.com' and we'll put you on the list.
Town halls are a big part of what Pandora is about. They continue to be wonderful opportunities for us meet and communicate directly with listeners.
We love feedback and people at Pandora events often weigh in on how Pandora should look in the future. In addition, I talk a bit about some company history, as well as a look under the hood of the music genome, and our latest thinking about the future. The questions and discussions always cover a wide range of topics - from how the music genome project works, to licensing, to the latest device updates. Everything is fair game!
So if you're in Denver or Atlanta next week I hope you'll come and hang and chat for an hour and a bit, that's usually how long the town halls last. And if you're in another city and think it is time we had a town hall there, let us know by emailing 'tour@pandora.com,' and we'll add it to the list!
Details below about Denver and Atlanta. See you soon!
-Tim (Founder)
Denver
When: Monday, June 21st, 6:30 p.m. (Note: the Denver Art Museum is closed for general admission on Mondays but the Sharp Auditorium will be open for this event.)
Where: Denver Art Museum's Fredric C. Hamilton Building at 100 West 13th Avenue. The event will be held in the Lewis I. Sharp Auditorium.
RSVP: Send email to tour@pandora.com with number of guests
Directions: http://www.denverartmuseum.org/visit_us/plan_your_visit/location_and_hours
Atlanta
When: Tuesday, June 22nd, 6 p.m.
Where: Tabernacle @ 152 Luckie Street NW (1 block from Centennial Olympic Park, Philips Arena, The Georgia World Congress Center and The Georgia Dome)
RSVP: Send email to tour@pandora.com with number of guests
Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=152+luckie+st,+30303&ie=UTF8&om=1&hq=&hnear=152+Luckie+St+NW,+Atlanta,+Fulton,+Georgia+30303&ll=33.758527,-84.390965&spn=0.012916,0.015278&z=16
*The venue is surrounded by paid parking lots; the MARTA stop is Dome/GWCC/Philips/CNN.
Dear listeners -
After months of furious development, this morning we're launching a major new initiative on Pandora.
As you may know, we've tried for a while now to figure out how to incorporate the more social aspects of music into our service. Sharing music is, after all, one of life's great pleasures.
The idea behind today's update is to make it really easy to share your Pandora stations and music discoveries with your friends - and vice versa. Now your friends can be a daily source of inspiration for new stations and music discovery. I've been testing out the service while we were developing it and I have to say it really brings a wonderful new human dimension to the listening experience.
To make this truly easy for you, we've partnered with the experts at Facebook. Starting today, you can easily link your experience on Pandora with your friends on Facebook. This quickly brings your Facebook friend list into Pandora along with your Facebook profile picture. It quite literally puts a whole new face on Pandora.
Know that this is entirely optional. Even though we're excited about the new dimension this adds to Pandora, we want to be very respectful of your privacy. If you don't want to bring your Facebook world into Pandora, just opt out. It will disappear forever. Period.
As always, and maybe on this one more than ever, we're eager to hear what you think.
Enjoy!
Tim (Founder)
P.S. For more detail, feel free to check out: blog.pandora.com/faq/contents/10010.html
Pandora Background Listening for iPhone OS 4
Back in the summer of 2008, Pandora had over 10 million listeners on the web and we were growing at a pretty good clip. Then in July we released Pandora for iPhone and everything changed. Suddenly, people could take Pandora with them: into the gym, the car, the living room, the kitchen, outside while jogging... the list goes on. Pandora truly became an anytime, anywhere phenomenon and as a result the use of Pandora accelerated dramatically. Less than two years later, we have over 50 million listeners and mobile listening accounts for more than 40% of the hours we stream.
In the years that followed, we brought Pandora to more and more environments with the goal of being everywhere our listeners wanted us to be: on Blackberries and Androids, Blu-Rays and TVs.
However, there was still one thing missing for our iPhone users: background listening. That's all about to change.
Some weeks ago Apple invited us to a secret meeting where they revealed that background applications were coming to the iPhone OS 4 and that they'd like to use Pandora to show off these new capabilities at their big iPhone OS 4 product unveiling. Under the new operating system, Pandora will stream in the background while you use your iPhone to browse the web, read an e-book or play a game.
Participating in Apple's launch event meant sending an engineer to Apple to update our software for OS 4 (this took about a day) and many, many, many (many) hours of presentation preparation so that we'd be ready to share the stage with Steve Jobs. This of course was all done with the utmost secrecy. Just a tiny handful of people even inside Pandora knew what we were doing.
Getting to participate in one of these Apple events has been a kind of lifelong dream for me. The Apple folks are masters of these types of presentations and it was an incredible experience to get to experience it from the inside. As our Founder Tim and I stood on stage presenting, there was a moment about halfway through where my nerves calmed enough (The software was going to work! It was going to be ok!) that I could just enjoy the moment and just take it all in. I don't think I'll ever forget it.
Apple released the iPhone OS 4 Developer Preview this week so that engineers can start updating their applications in anticipation of the launch of the new OS sometime this summer. We're incredibly excited to enable background listening on the iPhone (and ultimately on the iPad too) -- we'll be ready just as soon as Apple ships the new OS.
-Tom
Tomorrow morning as the first iPads are delivered, we'll be launching an entirely new Pandora application built from the ground up for the iPad.
Pandora on iPad has been completely re-imagined for the iPad's big touch interface. I think of it as the ultimate lean-in Pandora experience. Just tap the Pandora icon and let the music play while you read about the bands and music you discover. Pass it back and forth with a friend and share your discoveries. My hope is that it can play the same role that the album cover did when I was a kid -- something concrete to enjoy and share as the music plays. There's something magical about that, and this really is a magical device.
For me, this is the culmination of an almost 20 year wait. Some kids go to college so they can become a doctor. Some go with the dream of success in business. Some go in pursuit of knowledge. Some go just to have a good time.
I went so I could work at Apple.
That's not a joke, or an exaggeration. I literally went with that singular goal and by some stroke of incredible luck, I managed to land a job there upon my graduation 18 years ago. Working at Apple was an amazing experience; the company is full of incredible people driven by a desire to change the world. During my four years there I saw all sorts of incredible products: some commonplace (the PowerBook), some infamous (the Newton) and some that never saw the light of day. Chief among those that were never released were all manner of "tablet" Macintoshes. Powered by pens and touch, these fabled devices where designed to set the Mac free from the confines of the keyboard. In the end though, it wasn't meant to be. We could never settle on the right combination of hardware, software, and economics that would make the machines practical and popular.
None the less, there was something incredible about even those early experiments, and I've waited almost 20 years for some variety of tablet from Apple that would finally resolve all the issues and get the formula right. So it's with great anticipation that I look forward to the launch of the iPad tomorrow.
I'll be in line at an Apple Store with everyone else to pick mine up. If you decide to do the same, I hope you'll give Pandora on iPad a listen and let us know what you think. We'd love the feedback.
We celebrated a big milestone for the company last week. Sometime late Thursday evening our 50 millionth listener registered for Pandora!
Amazing to us how this has all happened by word of mouth.
The growth of mobile has clearly helped a ton. An ever-increasing number of folks are coming to Pandora for the first time on a smartphone or a blue-ray player, or a connected home audio device. Lots more evening and weekend usage. The vision for Pandora anytime, anywhere is really starting to take shape...
Thanks again for listening, and for spreading the word! Next stop 100,000,000!
Tim (Founder)
NYC Town Hall - March 22, 2010
Man, what a night in NYC. Almost 400 people jammed into the New World Stage theater for a lively conversation.
Tons of great comments and feedback. There was definitely a lot of interest in the advertising side of our business - I guess that's not surprising in NY - how we thought about it both from an economic standpoint, an advertiser standpoint, and a user standpoint. Lots of folks are interested in the ability to target ads over time -both to make them more relevant, and more valuable.
Pandora has over 80 people working just on that part of our business. It's really key for us to optimize that in order to keep up with the incredible growth - which just keeps going and going... just crossed 50 million registered listeners!!!
Also spent a good while talking with folks afterwards about various new projects. One thing is clear, there are many entrepreneurs entering the music space now... particularly in the area of artist services. Trying to crack the nut on how to help artists make the web work for them.
There continues to be a great response to our plans (and they are still in the 'plan' stage) to bring some more targeted artist info to listeners (eg. local concerts).
Thanks again to all who braved the rain to make it out...
Tim (Founder)
Seattle Town Hall: March 17, 2010
Wonderful meetup in Seattle on Wednesday evening. Lots of great feedback as usual, and some cool ideas. One was the ability to launch a station by typing in a favorite radio station's call letters. Also clearly a lot of interest in ability to control the stations in a more granular way - ie. by attributes. I'm also continuing to hear a steady drumbeat of developers wanting access to an API to start creating new apps. It remains a tricky one for us because of licensing and monetization issues, as well as raw resources to support.
The other thing I'm hearing, and heard last night, was the growing use of Pandora on things other than a computer. Lots of folks have ONLY used it on a bluray, or a Sonos, or a iPod touch, etc. I really can't wait to see the growth of devices in the home - we're clearly beginning to hit an inflection point there.
Thanks to the great staff at the Library who were a great help getting this all put together. What an incredible monument that place is.
Next up Monday night in the Big Apple...
Tim (Founder)
Back from the desert...
Had a great gathering with Arizonians last Sunday at the Rialto Theatre in downtown Tucson.
As always, the get togethers in smaller towns have a certain special character. About 150 braved driving rain and howling wind to make it out. Tons of tons of questions - it seemed we could have gone on into the night, but I didn't want to make people miss the Oscars !
Lots of talk about the playlist methodology - especially about variety/repetition, an issue we're really focused on. It's clear that some stations on Pandora have become too narrow, and we need to figure that out.
A number of folks also asked about the prospect for an open API, to allow individual developers to start building on the platform. We're not there yet, but it's certainly food for thought.
It was also great to meet a handful of folks from the local radio station - clearly looking to find ways to help evolve broadcast radio onto the web. One Dj in attendance asked about access to local 'thumb' information so he could use it to help build relevant playlists for his audience. Interesting.
Met a couple grad students working on some interesting pattern matching stuff too.
Thanks again to everyone for coming out. It was a pleasure meeting all of you...
Next up is Seattle on Wednesday this week. 7pm at the Public Library. Should be fun - St. Patrick's Day!
Tim (Founder)
We're proud to announce that we've officially added a new genre to Pandora: Children's Music!
We've hunted down some truly excellent children's music for our collection, and our Music Analysts have spent months listening to every one of these songs. They've categorized the songs along hundreds of musicological traits so playlists are kid-friendly, musically interesting, and combine a great mix of familiar songs and fun new discoveries.
With Pandora's built-in variety, never again will you have to listen to the same CD on repeat for weeks at a time. Anyone who's under the impression that most children's music is cheesy or that there isn't much out there, is in for a treat.
Steve Hogan, our Music Operations Manager and co-curator of the stations below, has been listening to these stations with his 4-year-old son Brady. He hands the iPhone over to thumb-happy Brady, who has become quite enthusiastic about crafting his personal radio station. Sometimes he thumbs downs a song after only a few notes, but he's always decisive. :) At left, he's giving a thumbs up to a Raffi song.
If your child has a favorite children's artist, start a station from that artist's name. Or, read on to try some of the kid-tested stations Steve and I made for you.
Radio for Kids --- Meant for kids 7 and under, this station is fun, educational, and not too baby-ish. For kids who are moving on up from Toddler Radio. Many musical genres are included here, and due to the variety and quality of songs, it's enjoyable for kids and adults!
Rockin' Kids Radio --- Meant for kids 7 and under. This one is my personal favorite; an energetic station good for dancing, room-cleaning and high-energy play. This station is a winner for kids (and adults!) who love upbeat music. Rock out, kiddos.
Toddler Radio --- Meant for kids 4 and under, this station is educational and fun! A variety of toddler-friendly themes and music genres are explored. Look for Sesame Street, Disney, & The Wiggles among others. :)
Sleepy Time --- Meant for kids 5 and under, this station is designed to prepare your tyke for a nap or bedtime (or any time you want to bring the energy level down a notch). It's full of mellow sounds and sweet lullabies.
Kid's Folk Music --- Meant for kids 7 and under, this station features quality kid-friendly folk music. It's a pretty mellow station... a nice quiet-time alternative to Rockin' Kids.
Tween Radio --- Meant for ages 8 to adult. This station is appropriate for those too old for children's music but a bit too young for rock 'n' roll's more adult themes. It includes pop music like Miley Cyrus, the High School Musical cast, The Jonas Brothers, and the cast of Glee.
Personally, I'm thrilled we've been able to fulfill this frequent listener request.
And for "aunties" like me, it's very handy to have all this children's music right at my fingertips.
Enjoy!
:) Lucia
(community manager)
Secret Insights into the world of Jazz Drumming
The "Musicology Show" is back, with a new show about jazz drumming. Pandora music analyst Jeff Anthony pulls back the curtain on our jazz genome to show us the signature styles of Elvin Jones, Tony Williams and "Philly Joe" Jones -- arguably three of the greatest drummers who ever picked up sticks.
This show was edited and recorded by Tyler Brown at Bellboy Recording, a studio that has served as home to many fine Bay Area jazz recordings.
As always, it's free to subscribe to "The Musicology Show" in iTunes or in any other feedcatcher (Google Reader, Juice, etc.)
Just scroll down on the main podcast page to hear those 50 earlier episodes, or jump straight to the category pages for Composition, Styles, Singing, Instruments and Rhythm.
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