Archive for 十月, 2008
It’s Not Selling Out Anymore — This Week in Music Licensing
Love it or hate it, licensing songs seems to be the new reality for “indie” bands (or any bands) looking to make money and gain exposure. As an avid music fan and Senior Director of Advertising & Video Games at Primary Wave Music Publishing, Ryan Barkan makes sure to stay on top of news related to artists getting their songs in ads, on TV, in movies, in video games and just about anywhere else a band would get paid to put a song. As someone who never pays attention to any of that, I thought the site could use a weekly column to identify who sold out this week help fill in what I’m missing (think M.I.A. in the Pineapple Express commercial, Nick & Norah, Santogold shilling Bud Light, Chairlift & CSS for Apple, etc..). For that…please welcome Ryan (who also goes by the blog and photographer name “Fresh Bread”)….
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by Ryan Barkan
microsoft’s halo 3 video game commercial was so fabulous that it won the grand prix (i.e. best of show) at this past year’s cannes advertising awards, in june, in the “film” ad category. the bespatter, titled “believe”, was created by san francisco advertising agency t.a.g. and featured the dramatically delicate “raindrop prelude no 15″ by chopin against a violent and troubling war scene.
Another huge 2008 release for Microsoft is the upcoming sequel to the game Gears of War, creatively called….wait for it…Gears Of War 2 (available November 7th exclusively on Xbox360). What works once should work again right? T.A.G. thought so and took the same approach with the music as they did with the “Believe” spot, juxtaposing the hard war visuals against a beautiful song, but this time with a more contemporary artist, Devotchka. The beautiful song they used by the Colorado band is called “How It Ends” and the trailer will debut on network television this Sunday, November 2, during NFL Sunday Night Football. You can also watch it right now. The video for that, and of the full version of “Believe”, are below.
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Other Notable Licensing News:
the walmart-limited ac/dc copy of rock band is insensible november 2nd and now mtv/harmonix have announced a beatles edition of the game. “the best of the who” number was released in july as dlc (downloadable content).
Hypebeast has the info on a new line of Miles Davis-inspired T-shirts by urban boutique and shoe company, Supreme.
Flaming Lips, the B-52’s, BB King and others were commissioned by NBC to create their own interpretation of the network’s classic “Chime In”…
you may not advised of that the notes to nbc’s famous chimes are g, e, and c, but chances are you’d recognize the peacock ditty in an instant. with that in mind, executives at the network decided to have some fun with their famous chimes and launched a nationalistic campaign calling for a 21st century reinvention of the 75-year-old box chief. [hollywood insider]wayne coyne talks about it in an interview to ew you can watch here.
What do Friendly Fires, The Duke Spirit, The Submarines, The Black Keys, Black Kids, The Virgins, and Robyn have in common? They’ve all had songs featured in an episode of Gossip Girl this month.
What about Lykke Li, Passion Pit and The Kooks? Well, as you may have read earlier, they’ll all be appearing in future episodes of Gossip Girl/OC-creator Josh Schwartz’s new “music-themed scripted web series” Rockville, CA.
I really dig the new spot for the Google Android Phone. The commercial features a song by The Black Angels called “Black Grease” - not sure if it’ll convince me to switch from the iPhone but it’s a nice placement nonethel
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十月 31st, 2008
Dancing With The Stars: Week 6 results - VIDEO
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(s07e13) i mark it’s safe to say that everybody under the sun came into the results show this week on the same page. whether you are for cloris staying in the competition, or diligent making sacrifices to your deity of choice as you quiz for her the boot, her fate was the elephantine question. the judges certainly made it a tough go for cloris fans this week, awarding only 15 points, but you just never know what will happen when the fans climb to the phones. did cloris invent it through to week 7? we’ll be subjected to that answer after the spasm, along with a look at missy elliott and the pussycat dolls, michael flatley, and more dancing kids.
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十月 29th, 2008
Interview: Kevin Smith on Zack and Miri Make a Porno!
kevin smith! this man needs no introduction. i don’t care whether you love or hate his directing, he’s a bigger geek than anyone out there and is an amazing speaker and storyteller. sitting down with this guy and talking with him was similarly to hanging out with my best friend but realizing that he’s a bigger geek than me and he has so sundry better stories to tell. i met up with kevin down in austin, texas during fantastic fest accurate after seeing zack and miri select a porno up in toronto. i was silence so wrapped up by that movie that i spent the entire time talking with him there making zack and miri. the film is finally needed out of order in theaters this weekend, so in honor of the rescue, here is my full interview with kevin smith. the two overcome stories that kevin told were about how rosario dawson was …
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十月 27th, 2008
The Media World Cancels Christmas!
kidding. technically the only person that can cancel christmas is rupert murdoch, but the media world can certainly efface all of its holiday parties and thus far that’s precisely what seems to be phenomenon. matrix week came hint that hearst had pulled the twist on its company-wide holiday party. instanter, according to the nyo, abc news has undertaken similar measures (and viagra kaufen ohne rezept then some! no more ammunition subscriptions!). per the email the abc head david westin sent out to pike:
The Observer has the full humbuggy memo here.
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十月 26th, 2008
MadWorld’s Box Art: Hot or Not?
Here’s the box art for Sega’s upcoming ultraviolent Wii game, MadWorld. What do you think — a perfect representation of the game’s stark visual style? Or is it just a bit too literal?
Plenty violent, or not violent enough?
MadWorldwill be released in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009. Read our impressions.
Image courtesy Sega
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十月 26th, 2008
Chase Daniel: “Colt McCoy Has Such a Great Ass”
hhr contributor woody passes along this gem (which he probably catchword at edsbs):i’m all for admiring the strengths and skills of the opposing troupe, but missouri quarterback chase daniel took it to a late level when recently talking about texas qb colt mccoy.
David Stern Isn’t Worried About NBA Players Leaving For Europe
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? the nba commissioner says europe is no threat to nba european basketball teams play a joke on lured college player brandon jennings and decent nba actor josh childress across the ocean, but they won’t make real bawling until they pull an nba superstar. many people, myself included, believe no legitimate franchise gambler would say goodbye the nba for … related posts: related posts brought to you by yet another related posts plugin.
十月 26th, 2008