{"id":15057,"date":"2026-08-09T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15057"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:01:03","slug":"musician-and-entrepreneur-tom-vek-is-building-a-digital-music-player-but-dont-call-it-retro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15057","title":{"rendered":"Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don\u2019t call it retro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Terrence O\u2019Brien<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 8, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Musician Tom Vek taking a selfie with his Sleevenote music player.\" data-caption=\"Tom, we can\u2019t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Tom Vek\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/P1120126.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tTom, we can\u2019t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album <em>We Have Sound<\/em>, which garnered a solid <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/8540-we-have-sound\/\">7.6<\/a> from the tastemakers of the day over at <em>Pitchfork<\/em>. His undeniably catchy brand of dancy indietronica landed him an appearance on <em>The OC<\/em> and placement on the <em>Grand Theft Auto IV<\/em> soundtrack. His follow-up, <em>Leisure Seizure<\/em>, had a lengthy gestation period, but arrived in 2011 to similar success, reaching No. 79 on the UK charts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bandcamp-embed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomvek.bandcamp.com\/album\/we-have-sound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Link<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vek has continued to release music at regular intervals over the last 15 years, dropping <em>Newer Symbols<\/em> in 2022. But in 2020 he started toying with this idea he had for a music player called Sleevenote. Inspired by viny \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/976872\/tom-vek-musician-entrepreneur-sleevenote-interview\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/976872\/tom-vek-musician-entrepreneur-sleevenote-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrence O\u2019Brien &bull; August 8, 2026 Tom, we can\u2019t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His undeniably catchy brand of dancy indietronica landed him an appearance<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15057\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}