When: Monday, June 29th, 2009 @ 7:00 PM

Where: Grace Street Theater -- VCU campus
934 West Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia
Here's more info about the location.

Look forward to meeting some local Pandora listeners. Will share history and latest news of Pandora - would love to hear what's on your mind. There will be some cool swag too!

See you there.

Cheers. Tim (Founder)

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Here's how to upgrade to Pandora One, which includes the improved Pandora desktop application.

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Tricky's most recent album, Knowle West Boy,
is a visceral take on working-class England,
and is an autobiographical account of his childhood
in the housing projects of Bristol.

"Council Estate"

"Past Mistake"

"Girls"

"Overcome"

This four-parter gives us a rare look at true recording-studio workmanship as well, as the N,IR crew works with drummer Greg Saunier and the rest of Deerhoof to dial in their signature tones.

"Milking"

"Let's Dance the Jet"

"Giga Dance"

"The Great Car Tomb"

WHAT IS PANDORA DOING TO PROMOTE MUSICIANS?

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We're also pleased to announced our new Pandora channel on YouTube. Here's how you can subscribe for free.

Cheers. Tim (Founder)

"It's strange singing to a whole company called Pandora, 'Just give in, you can't win,' but so it must be... that's how it fell down. I could change it into a more chipper company song: 'You're so great, no one's late, Pandora...'"

"Oh! Pandora"

"Top of the Bottom"

"Negative Love"

"Congratulations (On Your Hallucinations)"

Fast forward 6 months and the Palm Pre is now in the hands of real live users and people are starting to listen to Pandora from their new phones. We're really excited about the results. Pandora on the Pre is a great listening experience - a fluid user interface with all the standard Pandora features you've come to expect on the web. It even runs in the background where it presents a mini playback control panel in the Pre's dashboard area.

To learn more about Pandora for Palm Pre, click here.

If you've haven't seen the great commercial Palm is running to announce the Pre, click here to get a look - and keep your eyes peeled for a Pandora mention toward the end.

I'm really happy to add the Palm Pre alongside the other Pandora smartphone implementations on iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. Covering the entire smartphone space is a big task and we're not done yet, but we're devoted to bringing Pandora to every smartphone platform where our listeners want us to be. Yes Android users that means we've heard you loud and clear - you're next!

"Greenhouse"

"Next Best Thing"

"Naked Truth"

"Alaska"

For an ecstatic full house at San Francisco's Regency
Grand Ballroom, these gents brought their strobe-lit,
sex-romp dance music to an eager gang of fans,
as you'll see.

"Hasta Quemarnos"

"Coqueta"

"Do U Like It?"

"A Donde Van Los Muertos?"

When you start building something like Pandora you quickly realize there's going to be a bunch of things that you'd love to do from day one that will have to wait for a later date. We have a long list like that and one staple of that list for the last 4 years has been an upgraded version of Pandora for listeners who want more features, better audio quality, and other things that we just can't do in the advertising-supported free version of the product. Well, the day has finally come when we can cross this one off our list.

Introducing Pandora One.

For $36/year we'll upgrade you and enhance your experience with these new features:

* High Quality Streaming: When listening on the web, experience 192K bits per second audio. That's the highest quality streaming experience on the Internet. More bits means better sounding music.

* Pandora One Desktop: Listen to Pandora from a dedicated desktop application; no need to keep a browser window open. Control playback from the Windows taskbar or the Macintosh dock. Get popup alerts when a new song starts to play. This is the ultimate Pandora experience: simple, efficient, pure.

* No Ads: Pandora One is completely free of any sort of advertising: no audio ads, no visual ads. It's just you and your music.

* Personalize Your Look: Surround the Pandora player with one of 8 custom "skins" that will make the look of Pandora as personalized as the music.

* Mini Player: Minimize Pandora One into the smallest possible browser window. This makes it easy for the web version of Pandora to live side by side with other web sites and applications.

* Skip All Day Long: With the standard ad supported version of Pandora you're limited to 12 total skips per day. With Pandora One you'll be able to skip as many times per day as you'd like (note you will still be limited, thanks to licensing constraints, to six skips per hour).

* Extended Interaction Timeout: Listen for up to 5 hours in a row without interacting with Pandora at all. Just turn it on and let it go. Every time you interact the timer is reset so just one click around lunchtime can get you through an entire workday.

So that's Pandora One. The highest quality audio. Pandora One Desktop. No Ads. More features. No limits. As with everything we do, we're very interested in hearing your feedback. Drop us an email or a comment here to share your thoughts. Your feedback will help shape future versions of Pandora One. This is just the beginning.

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

PS: If you had previously subscribed to Pandora to avoid advertising, we've upgraded your account to Pandora One status for free. Welcome!

Be prepared to have your hair blown back and your ears pinned to your skull. These guys are LOUD.

"Isis Unveiled"

"Far Pavilions"

"Fields of Coal"

"Bells of Creation"

IF I THUMB DOWN A SONG'S LIVE VERSION, CAN I STILL HEAR THE STUDIO VERSION?
CAN I ELIMINATE ALL LIVE MUSIC FROM MY STATION?

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JJ Schultz is one of our software engineers and a fine musician.

Yesterday I was listening to his great podcast on country music. It sucked me in, and I found myself wanting to know what kinds of Pandora stations JJ listened to.

I made my way over to his desk and asked him to share some of his country stations with me. He's a swell guy, so he shared his two favorite country stations. I thought you might like to try them out as well:

Jukebox at the Ambrose, ND Bar
JJ says: "this one plays a lot of the country songs that I enjoyed as a kid when I used to plug the jukebox at my dad's bar."

Midnight to Moonlight Radio
JJ says: "this one is more the stuff that I listen to now. lots of old time country on this one."

I hope you enjoy these country stations, and if you'd like to hear some of the music JJ has written and recorded, here you go: JJ Schultz Radio
(Feel free to check out his Pandora profile to see what else he listens to.)

If you're interested in listening to more staff stations, check here, here, and here for past blog posts.

Enjoy!

:: Lucia

... how Coldplay might lead you to Mozart, by way of yodeling and American patriotic music ...

... the paths that run from Kanye West to Willie Nelson, which include German motorik rock ...

... musicians who might accompany a duet between Jack Johnson and Whitney Houston, such as the Rolling Stones and a Hawaiian slack-key guitarist ...

... the six degrees that separate the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Miles Davis, which include Cyndi Lauper and Ice Cube.

Be forewarned that Blu is, well, blue.
His rhymes are stocked with profanities
and very un-P.C. references, and are
tagged with a big, glowing, beeping,
flashing "Explicit Content" button.

"My World Is Blu"

"Soul Amazing"

"Up All Night"

"Blu Collar Worker"