Jam Preserves Hello! Matt & Han here with an important message about Jam. After nearly a year assessing many options, we’ve decided to stop operating This Is My Jam in its current form. Read on to...| thisismyjam.tumblr.com
‘Johnny And Mary (feat. Bryan Ferry)’ by Todd Terje We’re getting pretty excited about ‘It’s Album Time’ over here at the Jam Factory. Come on, April 8! Hurry up!| thisismyjam.tumblr.com
Friends, this is it. A quick post to let you know that The Jam Archives have been published! Check out the final This Is My Jam. Thank you for all your love and support. It’s been pretty special reading all your messages. Your last jams were especially rad, so before we flipped the switch today we threw them into a Spotify playlist. Enjoy :)| The Jam Journal
We have two new features from our upcoming release that we just couldn’t wait to share, so they’re live for you to play with early. 1. You’ve told us it’s hard to quickly find the right jam, we’re listening. The search screen is now learning from our song graph, which means: unless you’re among the first to post a song or it’s recently been taken offline, we can often suggest the best version of it on the web. 2. Wouldn’t it be great if you knew what music your friends were di...| The Jam Journal
It’s December, which means one thing: the time of year-end lists is upon us. We take our stewardship of your favorite songs very seriously, and 2014 is no exception. In years past, history features on This Is My Jam itself were limited. We resorted to building outer space and underwater vehicles to help you relive past hits. “Why can’t I explore my past jams all year round?” many of you asked. So earlier this year we finally opened up full song histories on the site, adding playable s...| The Jam Journal
Just over a year ago, we took Jam independent and embarked on a mission to find a sustainable future for the product. The four of us all had to bring in money other ways, and we became a decentralized collective with Matt and I doing the heavy lifting. Andreas took his talents to the Echo Nest in Boston (and later Spotify in New York); Ralph did the same with GOV.UK; and Matt and I created a product design consultancy to pay our bills and bringing in revenue to bootstrap Jam while working on ...| The Jam Journal
Last week we signed up our 200,000th member. Soon we’ll reach 2 million jams – that’s 2 million moments from people who love music, hand-picking a song that matters to them. But numbers only tell half the tale: people have been using Jam to share great stories (like the time Pete got the Bee Gees to record his answering machine greeting); to make new friends; to debut new tracks; to share secrets; and even to fall in love and get married (congrats, Natalia and Paul!). Since we took Jam ...| The Jam Journal
‘Young Blood’ by Mapaga First track from @jamesyuill’s new MAPAGA project, direct from the man himself!| The Jam Journal
It started with a request many of you have emailed us about – wanting to browse all the jams someone has posted. Today, you can! Check out your own, or some of our favorites like garage_xplosion’s fuzzed-out guitars, ChampagneMami’s sizzling RnB party, or sarahbadr’s up-and-coming electronics. Now these aren’t simply jams anymore – they’re history – and with that history there’s too much rich cultural context to not take this one step further… Introducing songs All the ...| The Jam Journal
‘Saccharin Disco (Vol. 1)’ by JAZ These two mixes from @JAZ kept us going this weekend while we were putting the finishing touches on the latest site update.| The Jam Journal
‘Snakehips’ by OOFJ Not Safe For Monday| The Jam Journal
‘Can’t Do Without You’ by Caribou Wow! This new Caribou track is dominating today’s jam chart, and for good reason…| The Jam Journal
‘Emmenez-Moi’ by Charles Aznavour Happy 90th birthday, Charles Aznavour!| The Jam Journal
‘Kuar (Henrik Schwarz Remix)’ by Emmanuel Jal Rain or shine, this should get your Thursday moving.| The Jam Journal
‘The Coffee Cola Song’ by Francis Bebey Surprising and wonderful.| The Jam Journal
‘Babylon (feat. Kendrick Lamar)’ by SZA Mega SZA this week.| The Jam Journal
Classic album covers in Google Street View: Loving these pix on the Guardian: “From Pink Floyd to PJ Harvey, our Street View specialist Halley Docherty shows us the world’s cities through the lens of famous album covers”| The Jam Journal
‘Ritual’ by Nico Gomez & His African Percussion Inc. Hello, #FunkyFriday!| The Jam Journal
‘The Whistle Song (E.K. 12" Mix)’ by Frankie Knuckles Can’t say it better than @GhostType_GH: Heaven’s got a new resident DJ. #RIP| The Jam Journal
Before I completely recover from an almostsleeplessThursdaynight, I thought it’d be nice to write up a bit about what we did. The short story is that we took all our servers off Amazon, containerised them, and moved them from North Virginia to Germany. Bit of background This Is My Jam has always been an AWS shop, from when we started on a single m1.large to when we peaked at 50 or so EC2 instances, RDS, Cloudfront, S3, Route 53, email, you name it. It’s been great, mostly reliable, and ex...| The Jam Journal