We're psyched to release our fourth game: Spark - a music-based puzzle challenge. Choose the correct path for the spark to travel by lining up consecutive beats. The game board pulses with the beat and once the puzzle is solved, Loudcrowd's favorite robot, Speakerbot, comes to life.

If you get stuck, click the hint button. Check it out and let us know what you think.  

Our new Impress game is up! The counter ticks down as you choose your words carefully or risk the ire of the denizens of Loudcrowd. Let us know what you think! http://loudcrowd.com

Loudcrowd has finally come out of its shell! After several months of
private beta, we're officially open to everyone - everyone who likes
good music that is. So you can now invite your friends to check out
what you've had the inside track on already. Play games and rock out to
the latest music from awesome labels like Modular, DFA, Domino, Dim Mak
and others. Check out the cool write-up that Wired gave us too.
http://bit.ly/lclaunch

Have you checked out all the changes to Loudcrowd recently? We
redesigned the site and released our second game, a DJ game called
Spin. Come on by this week for awesome remixes of great songs by the
Twelves, including The Virgins' Rich Girls, BPA's He's Frank, and their
own unreleased material.

Let us know what you think of the new game. And, stay tuned for some major updates coming soon!

The main man bringing indie dance music to the heartland! Flufftronix
has put together a great guest DJ set on Loudcrowd this week. Come
check it out everyday at 12, 3, 6, and 9 Eastern. Educate yourself
about Flufftronix here: http://myspace.com/flufftronix

This week we've got the awesome Eli Escobar rocking the guest DJ Booth.If you haven't heard his playlist yet, you need to check it out - itsup everyday at 12, 3, 6 and 9 Eastern through Tuesday. Here's a link toEli's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/eliesco

If you aren't in our private beta yet, we've got a few more invites to hand out. You can sign up at http://beta.loudcrowd.com/welcome/myspace

Hope everyone is enjoying the end of year festivities. We've been busy making some great improvements to the game. If you've been keeping up with our updates, you know that we've made the game a lot less laggy (and we're still working on making it even better). We've added in closets for your loot, and now you can win music tracks to request in the game. Also,you can now win invites so your friends can come and play too. In the coming year, you're going to see some seriously fun stuff introduced on Loudcrowd - but we can't give out any more info than that. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, come on by this week for Indie 103's guest DJ spot and our own "best of 2008" picks. Coming up on Wednesday, DJ Lindsey will be spinning her unique mix of electro dance tunes. See you on the dancefloor.

Happy Holidays everyone! We don't want you catching a cold, so here are 7 reasons to stay inside and check in at Loudcrowd.

1. We can almost guarantee your relatives aren't at Loudcrowd.

2. Friday was our latest update, rebuilt to take 1/2 the memory it used to.

3. Now win music tracks to request music inside Loudcrowd!

4. Your Internet friends miss you over the holidays, and they're bored too.

5. By popular demand, now you can send invites to your friends to check out the private Beta.

6. It's like Christmas every 3-5 minutes when loot drops.

7. Indie music blog extraordinaire Brooklyn Vegan is spinning this week and LA's Indie 103 starts spinning on Wednesday.

bonus 8. We done got ourselves a music blog, vote on the best song of 2008 in our blog.

Head over to beta.loudcrowd.com to see the progress and keep the feedback coming!

Thanks!
Nabeel Hyatt and the Loudcrowd team