Getting tired of listening to the same darn things over and over on your iPod? Or maybe you are bored of an entire music genre? Based on the current music industry trends, you may be. 

Enter Pomplamoose: a one-woman, one-man band boasting a plethora of intriguing musical talent. Found on YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace as “Pomplamoose”, this band is comprised of the lovely Natalie Dawn and groovy Jack Conte, who both reside in the San Francisco area. What makes their music so fresh and fun is the fact that it’s an entirely new genre of music, what they have dubbed as the “VideoSong”.

What makes this different from a music video? Dawn and Conte have established a few rules on what constitutes a VideoSong: What you see is what you hear (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice), and if you hear something, you will see what made the sound at some point in the video (no hidden sounds). And that is another thing that sets Dawn and Conte apart from other musicians; they create their music on their own without the assistance from any big music label, and every instrument or sound you hear is produced by the duo.

That means that every instrument they use from the guitar, the piano, the drums and the sounds from their voices or clapping, are all their own work and mixed for your listening and viewing pleasure. One of their videos even has an accordion!

Individually, they are brilliant. Natalie is very calm and folksy while Jack borrows some similarities from the likes of Radiohead and Incubus. They both have their own individual YouTube channels which stand out from the crowd , but the real party is them working together in the form of Pomplamoose, as any of their fans (myself included) will tell you. Their music is mostly from their own creative genius, but they also do mix-ups of other classics like “Nature Boy”, “All the Single Ladies,” and “Beat It”.

They have their own album on iTunes (music version only), but if you want to have some good fun on YouTube, then check out their channel and watch for yourself.  Their VideoSongs are free!

Check out their YouTube page HERE.