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About Pampelmoose
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Dave Allen, co-founder, president
Pampelmoose is a music and MP3 web site covering the eclectic independent music scene. We stay clear of major labels and their artists to avoid having the Web Sheriff gallop through our offices. We are indie at heart so we support all things indie – in all its shapes and forms.
Dave walloped the bass strings and is a founding member of the highly influential, post-punk band, Gang of Four. With his business partner, Ned Failing, he started Pampelmoose in 2005. We love music and we love the way the internet leveled the playing field for all artists.
Josh Kneedler, co-founder and author
Josh Kneedler is a highly experienced interactive designer. He began working in online media in 1997 at the birth of the interactive world, a world we now take for granted, one that has become as common as the utilities we use at home. His skills consist of design, programming, and creative direction. It’s an eclectic mix, but one that is vital to pursuing new ventures where traditional broadcast media rules do not apply. Josh understands that music artists no longer need traditional record labels. A consumer in Japan may never have heard of our local Northwest music scene so local bands need a different way to promote their independently produced CDs. Josh has the necessary skills and experience that highlight innovation over imitation to tackle contemporary challenges in the world of interactive programming, design and creative marketing. Some of Josh’s work can be seen on his web site: http://www.joshkneedler.net
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July 17th, 2008 at 10:08 amThe collage of vids ruins the GT esthetic for me. Whereas the different sounds colliding take me to a new and groovy place, the vids draw attention to very specific cultural experiences, causing the mash to seem a lot more contrived ala ‘we didn’t start the fire’ or one of those songs where the band references every city in the United States (”he said ‘Cleveland’! whoooooooo!”). In reality, GT could be/should be running an ad agency marketing toward people aged 20-40; the vid makes that glaringly obvious. Smart add campaigns always latch onto cultural land marks and anthems to associate their product with something people already have connections with. Every GT song does this 10 fold. He’s clever like that—much respect—the vids just make it seem icky is all.
But maybe I’m an idealist…
July 17th, 2008 at 10:18 am