This Week in Tumblr: the Next Web, You Are Listening to Los Angeles & April fools’
Last week on the Tumblr blog, we had two great interviews, an overview of lots of contests that are coming up, great examples using the Social-for-Download app and ending the week on an awesome April 1st! Learn more about what happened below.
Monday
- Who doesn’t fancy a new Death Cab For Cutie song at the start of the week?
DEATH CAB for CUTIE – You Are A Tourist [Album Version] by ATL REC.
Tuesday
- Alex spoke with The Next Web’s video editor Hermione Way about SoundCloud and the recent Foursquare integration.
Wednesday
- We shared a list of all of our SoundCloud team members who are on Tumblr.
- Sound On Sound magazine teamed up with Everything Everything to have a bash at remixing their forthcoming single Final Form. Click here to pick up the stems and get mixing!
- Want to be on the NBA 2K12 Soundtrack, drop your sample-free hip hop track in the NBA 2K12 SoundCloud Dropbox (ends real soon!).
- Havana Cultura paired with Gilles Peterson for the Gilles Peterson Remix Contest. Click here for more info.
- Stange Decks has a remix contest of his track Shadows. Check it out here!
- Hop over to the John Digweed Facebook page to get involved with the Bedrock remix competition.
- Boston’s Together Festival launched a remix competition to determine your production skill and creativity. Click here to get involved.
Thursday
- SoundCloud Local featured lots of excellent artists from Reukjavík, Iceland.
- Our own Emily sat down with Eric Eberhardt, the creator of You Are Listening to Los Angeles to chat about how the project came about.
- We spotlighted a several artists who made good use of the SoundCloud Social-For-Download app: Glasvegas shares previews to their new album ‘Euphoric /// Heartbreak \’, The Pigeon Detectives is using the Facebook Like to share streams to ‘Up, Guards And At ‘Em’ with Bell X1 doing the same for their album ‘Bloodless Coup’.
Friday
- We conveniently launched our totally awesome profile customization feature, teaming up with a couple of big names to show it off like Moby, Queens of the Stone Age, Subpop Records and Daughter.
As usual, keep a look out for what’s going on this week on the Tumblr blog here.