May 2012
2 posts
New Mixtape from The Hood Internet!
The Hood Internet will be debuting their new mixtape at 7:30pm EST today! turntable.fm/the_hood_internet, be there. It’s gonna be excellent!
April 2012
6 posts
Introducing: Laptop Stickers!
Laptop stickers have come to Turntable! You can add stickers to your laptop by going to Settings > Laptop stickers. That’ll let you can choose what stickers you want to add and position them how you like.
Once you’ve got everything arranged the way you want, click ‘Save’ and that’s how they’ll look when you DJ!
You’re stickers will also appear in...
Jane Doze on Turntable Tuesdays!
Get ready! Tomorrow from 10pm-2am PST The Jane Doze will be playing Turntable Tuesdays from BOND at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas! This is the second week of Turntable Tuesdays at BOND and we know that The Jane Doze will step up and keep the party going. We’re psyched to bring the Turntable experience to the real world and share some our DJs with the listeners at BOND. As Jen said,...
Bond DJ Battle, the Final Showdown!
Tonight is the last night of the BOND DJ Battle! It’s all come down to this folks, tonight in turntable.fm/bond_bar_battle we’ll be voting for the two DJs who are getting an all expense paid trip to Las Vegas and a set at BOND.
8pm SamOlyaei, DJ RIDIC, Indur, LoneStarBeerDrinker
9pm Donkay, bEDMakerz, Brit A, Shear Con
10pm Shins_fan, Bringing Sexy Tabach, De Ben, GotMilk?
11pm...
March 2012
14 posts
Bond DJ Battle!
Who will be going to Las Vegas? The battle begins on 4/1!
We will be sending two of our very own DJs to play at BOND in Las Vegas and you get to pick who it is! Drop by http://turntable.fm/bond_bar_battle on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evening for the first round battles. Then on Wednesday it all builds up to the final round!
The party goes from 6-10pm on Sunday and 7-11pm during the week. DJs...
Watch“Last week’s South by Southwest festival brought 2,000 bands to Texas, but it also featured the top executives in music and technology discussing the future of music and how various tech companies can be involved. Fuse brought together the top names from SoundTracking, Turntable.fm, Pandora and Tastemaker X for our “Music and Interactive: The Way It Should Be” panel,...
Video from our Pepsi & Intel parties at SXSW
We’ve got all kinds of sweet video from our parties at SXSW! It was quite the shindig!
?uestlove + Turntable.fm + SXSW + Pepsi + Intel 3.15 from Turntable.fm on Vimeo.
Diplo + Turntable.fm + SXSW + Pepsi + Intel 3.15 from Turntable.fm on Vimeo.
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Flying Lotus + turntable.fm + SXSW + Pepsi + Intel from Turntable.fm on Vimeo.
Turntable.fm + SXSW +Avatar DJ + Pepsi + Intel...
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Turntable Tuesdays...
We’ve partnered with The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and we’re bringing Turntable Tuesdays to their bar, BOND on April 3, 10, 17 and 24. DJ Wooooo will be starting the party on April 3rd and The Jane Doze will be holding it down on the 10th.
Everyone is super excited about playing in Vegas, Jen Mozenter of The Jane Doze had some super nice things to say, “Turntable.fm has provided us with an...
Tonight at SXSW!
Don’t click to RSVP though. This is just an image to let you know what’s up.
P.S. The party is going to be HUGE!
Interview with @qbertplaya, Winner of...
danksjams:
DanKsJams caught up with turntable regular and DJ All-Star @qbertplaya after her recent win in the turntable.fm DJ Battle. She has graciously indulged us with answering our burning questions about her, and her victory! How did you hear about/when did you get started on turntable.fm? What got you hooked? I found out about turntable.fm in July in the least cool way possible — by reading...
And we have our winner!
It was a heart pounding finish to our battle, with indie room regulars Sapient and @Qbertplaya facing off in the final battle. Many listeners in the room were supporting both and loudly cheering each DJs equally. In the end @Qbertplaya, knocked it out of the park with “Saeglopur (ENiGMA Remix)” by Sigur Rós. In the final battle they were joined onstage by the runners up Bruneaux and...
The Final Countdown!
It’s all come down to this! Tonight is the last night of Intel SXSW DJ Battle, at the end of the night we will all know who will be DJing at our Interactive event at SXSW. If you want to be there when it all goes down you should be in turntable.fm/intel_dj_battle by 7pm EST.
There can be only one!
7pm
@Qbertplaya, MindUnquiet, sharedferret, Alex Mizell
8pm
Sweet Chayenne $tar$,...
SXSW DJ Battle, Round 1 Day 2
Last night was a wild ride! There were a couple of close matches but @Qbertplaya, MindUnquiet, Sweet Chayenne $tar$, and Bruneaux are all moving on to the second round. Pick who’s going to join them tonight! Bein turntable.fm/intel_dj_battle by 6pm EST.
6pm Heather Vaughn (WTF), chemiks, Alex Mizell, Paul de Revere 7pm Gotrilla, TIMarbury, d-_-b, Dev Sherlock
8pm @candle_ends,...
Turntable SXSW Battle!
Turntable, it’s time for you to decide who’ll be DJing at our SXSW Interactive event! We’ve got some great DJs lined up to battle it out for the spot. Rockstars from all over Turntable are going to play the music that they love. There are no genre restrictions, so you should be ready to hear anything! Seriously, it’s going to be insane.
From 6-10pm EST on 3/5 and 3/6 it’s all going down in...
February 2012
5 posts
Are you Turntable's top DJ?
We’re putting together a party and we need your help. We’re looking for someone to DJ our Intel DJ event on March 10th and we thought it would be spectacular to hold a DJ battle of of the top DJs and let Turntable decide who that DJ will be. The winner will get to spin a (remote) 30-minute set at our SXSW Interactive event as well as a swank ASUS Zenbook UX31 Series Ultrabook powered by Intel....
Turntable Adds Private Messaging!
You may have noticed we’ve added a little something to Turntable! Got something to say that you don’t want to share with the whole room? You can now chat privately with your Facebook and Twitter friends, as well as people you’ve fanned. It even works if you and the person you’re chatting with are in different rooms! Just click on the private message icon in the lower left...
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Modern Art Tour Listening Parties!
Exciting news! Modern Art Records and Consequence of Sound have put together the Modern Art Tour. A whole bunch of bands are going to be out on tour together like Miniature Tigers, Geographer, The Chain Gang Of 1974, and SPEAK. So basically, it’s going to be fantastic. But wait, why am I telling you this? Here’s why: each artist from the Modern Art Tour is going to be on Turntable...
What turntable almost looked like
We were perusing some old files and this was what the first designed version of turntable looked like. It’s funny looking back at it and feels like something out of TRON. Ultimately it didn’t fit in with the feel we wanted to give (making turntable feel like a small trendy, but homey venue).
January 2012
8 posts
Rock out with Turntable for the GRAMMYS
We’ve teamed up with The Recording Academy (aka The GRAMMYs) in partnership with CoverGirl, Olay, and Venus to present GRAMMY Glam — celebrating the intrinsic connection between music and glamour — on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 at MyHouse in Hollywood, Calif. The exclusive, star-studded, red carpet event will kick-off GRAMMY Week leading up to Music’s Biggest Night, the 54th...
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Future Garage/2 Step/UK Dubstep/Grime
Looking for somewhere to something that’s a little more dubstep and a little less brostep? Want to find out what the difference is? Check out Future Garage/2 Step/UK Dubstep/Grime to check out great DJs and producers honing their tracks and picking appart the finer points of electronic music generes.
CoJack started playing “Fog” by Sduk jessipedia: hey folks disk: oh snap...
Steve Aoki
We had a pretty great night here on Turntable when the spectacular Steve Aoki stopped by to DJ his new album for everyone. While he was making the room dance to his jams he also had a sweet Ustream going where fans could catch a behind the scenes look at Aoki while he spun. He shared some background info on the songs he was playing as well as his IRL dance moves, which were pretty great. At the...
Update Roundup
In the past few months we’ve released some spiffy new things on Turntable, but some of them might not be totally obvious. Here are four of the newer things on the site that you should know about:
Ignore User
If there is that one person who just rubs you the wrong way, then ignore user is for you! It’s under the settings menu, when you click on it a dialogue box will come up where you can put...
December 2011
5 posts
Tech N9ne on Turntable!
If you missed Tech N9ne at this week’s #TurntableTuesdays let me tell you, it was pretty magical! Tech N9ne played songs from all kinds of different genres and according to his blog he did it all “Despite being in a morphine-induced stupor due to the intense pain fromtwo cracked ribs” OMG! That’s dedication to your fans right there. In case you missed it here’s...
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Room of the Week: Folk/Americana/Blues/Soul - It's...
HippyGirlHeather started playing “Skinny Love” by Bon Iver jessipedia: hey-a folks. what’s good? Jabour Afrooz: Hi Jess Walton T. Feep: hey jessipedia HippyGirlHeather: Hi jess! Lucy Luciano: Hey Jess. jessipedia: Everyone ready for some interviewing? HippyGirlHeather: Yes, please. DJ poods: >straightens hair< jessipedia: How did this room get started? Yellow Dog...
It's the Mashupfm Mashtival!
TheKollection, SoSimpull.com, and DML.fm have organized this online mashup music festival right here on Turntable and it’s going to be a night of awesome. Tomorrow, 12/7, listen to killer tracks from banging DJs in three rooms. These DJs are bringing it all night long. Don’t miss the show!
Here’s what’s going down:
Start time - Mashtival will start at 7 PM (EST) with 5...
November 2011
8 posts
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Room of the Week: Funk and Soul Cave
If you ever find yourself in the mood for some groovy tunes, you should stop by the Funk and Soul Cave! Knowledgeable music heads are always hanging out trying to out spin each other and are more than willing to teach the newcomer everything they need to know about the funk.
jessipedia: hey folks $$mailman$$: hey HumpDayFunk: hi jess. :) jessipedia: how’s it going? jessipedia:...
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Room of the Week: Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo
If you think that Punk Rock, Emo and Alternative are only for dejected teens, think again. The Pop Punk/Rock/Alternative/Emo room is filled with friendly upbeat people ready to rock out and have a great time doing it! If you want to crowd surf with awesome buds, this is the room for you!
jessipedia: hey folks Tired Tigress: Hi Jess. jessipedia: So, how did the room get started? ...
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Best Guitar Solo
Last Friday we had a little twitter debate over which songs had the best guitar solo; suggestions were as diverse as hitting ‘Random Room’. Here is the list we came up with:
Get Ready 2 Rokk by Freezepop
Sexy M.F. by Prince
Of Moons, Birds & Monsters by MGMT
November Rain by Guns n’ Roses
Tobacco Road [La Calle del Tabaco] by David Lee Roth
Eruption by Van Halen
Until...
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Room of the Week: indie and such
If you ever find yourself looking for a saltier experience on Turntable, boy do I have the room for you. The folks over in indie and such don’t hold back, but if you enjoy free wheeling chat you’ll make tons of new friends and hear fantastic music. Here’s what I found out when I popped by for a chat: CarrieAwesome started playing “Bright, Bottom” by Declan’s...
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Room of the Week: CLASSIC Rock
If you’re in the mood for some Rock; there’s no place like the CLASSIC Rock room. They have old hits, deep cuts, and some of the nicest people you’ll meet. I checked it out one morning to see what was going on. Maggie Bean: Everyone meet Jessi! Jug: let me put my interview clothes on Sanders started playing “Mr. Crowley” by Ozzy Osbourne DJchuckie: hi jessi...
WatchTricks and treats from Turntable! That’s our very own Dan Delany dancing in his home made Daft Helmet. Awesome!
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Wale DJ Battle
Wale has partnered with Turntable.fm to give his fans a chance to DJ (Turntable-style) on stage as part of the “Ambition” tour. Turntable.fm will be hosting a series of DJ battles for Wale’s fans, and the top-ranked DJ from each city will earn the chance to DJ on stage before Wale.
Here’s the battle schedule:
Battle 1: New Orleans/Austin/Los Angeles 11/9, 7 PM PST
Battle 2: SF/Seattle...
October 2011
5 posts
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Room of the Week: Orange Bear Party Indie
Orange Bear Party Indie [OBPI] is one of the more distinctive rooms on Turntable. It’s pretty much impossible to miss the orage bearsuits, but they also have a great room vibe and play rockin’ tunes. Check it out if you want to make some eccentric friends who greet you by name and invite you to go to shows with them. I hung out with them for an evening to see what they do to keep...
