Since 2009, the ten-piece indie folk circus that is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have shared songs of community, compassion and self-exploration with fans around the world.  The group’s live shows are as much of a collaboration with the audience as they are a performance, where frontman Alex Ebert routinely finds each and every opportunity to…

Every couple of months, BitTorrent’s staff spends two days in a company-wide hackathon. The goal: to come up with an innovative project that embraces the company’s mission of distributed technology, user control, and sustaining an open internet. We call these a Palooza. Here’s the results of what happened at our latest event. At BitTorrent, we…

‘Live In No Particular Order: 2009-2014’ is out today for a minimum $5 pay what you want contribution to Big Sun Foundation. Live In No Particular Order: 2009-2014, the debut live album from the ten-piece folk collective Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is available today exclusively via BitTorrent Bundle. Fans can unlock the 21-track…

Richard Linklater meets H.P. Lovecraft in the upcoming scifi/romance/horror mashup from filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, available on BitTorrent Bundle. Don’t fall for the soft lighting, the flowers, or the violins. Love is a scary thing. Nobody gets that like indie filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, whose new film Spring is beauty and…

The new documentary, premiering March 16 at SXSW, follows producer Nick Koenig’s search for sound.  Your first look is here. Nick Koenig is always listening. In his hands, the sound of the wind over a gravestone becomes something like a hook. Underneath each song, you can hear the sample: a dollhouse burning, a girl blowing out…