Pour illustrer le morceau d’A-Trak & Tommy Trash appelé « Tuna Melt », Ryan Staake a filmé le travail incroyable de Kinetic King qui a imaginé toute une séries d’actions liées à la chute d’un domino dans toutes les pièces d’une maison située dans le Minnesota. Une création produite par Pier Pictures et Pomp&Clout.
Web sites like the Royalty Exchange allows musicians to sell parts of their royalty income to investors and define which rights to sell and which to retain.
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It's nice to see Iggy Pop taking a break from lending his music to cruise lines and starring in car-insurance ads to promote something a bit more relevant: his upcoming album, Ready to Die. In the clip below, Iggy mocks his sell-out stature by moaning about the perils of being shackled to a major label. Then we get to see that, shockingly enough, life doesn't get considerably more rewarding when he starts working with a label "from Mississippi or somewhere." It's a pretty endearing spot, one that might not make up for all the rocker's other advertising exploits, but at least makes me curious to know what he's up to these days music-wise. Via Yahoo Music.
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Twitter’s idea is to recommend songs based on personal contacts as well as on what is popular among the 200 million Twitter audience.
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The service is adding markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America; also, Apple’s iTunes store turns 10 and sits atop the music download market; Psy returns.
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Get ready to have your mind blown. Dutch band Light Light has created one of the most amazing interactive music videos ever, housed on a site called DoNotTouch.org. The site tracks your mouse pointer throughout the video and shows you where everyone else pointed, as well. You're asked to signal your answers to certain questions, such as where you're located on a world map. But you're also given challenges along the way, like following a narrowing path or not touching a naked woman (thus, it is possibly NSFW). The result is both hypnotic and engaging, which is a rare combo indeed. Watch the video here.
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The service’s music feature is still hidden from the public, but it appears to be a way to learn what music is becoming popular.
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Nominé dans la catégorie Music Video des Fubiz Awards 2013, Nabil Elderkin nous invite à découvrir sa dernière réalisation illustrant le morceau « Overgrown » de James Blake. Une création sombre et étrange proposant de superbes images, donnant ainsi de la profondeur à la musique. Plus dans la suite.
The record label of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation will be brought under Universal’s umbrella, moving from Sony Music.
Meet Andy Williams, a 30-something bearded musician who shares a name with a recently deceased beloved pop singer/actor. Williams hails from Buffalo, New York, eschews the mere notion of a 9-to-5 office gig, and plays guitar in semi-popular hardcore band Every Time I Die.
It might seem to a naive person that Williams has it all: A cool job, musical chops, great friends, adoring fans and a magnificent beard. However, Williams suffers from a debilitating addiction. While his bandmates indulge in the clinically recommended rock star diet (drugs, fast food, booze), Williams battles every day with his 23-flavored soft drink crutch, Dr. Pepper. In fact, as the above video from Dr. Pepper and Code and Theory suggests, Williams cannot even take the stage some nights without receiving his fix.
As with most cases of substance abuse, Williams’ crippling habit has racked up quite the bill over the years. It’s become so bad, in fact, that Williams is now soliciting fans to buy him cans of Dr. Pepper via Twitter. More disconcerting still is that having heard of Williams’ unique problem, Dr. Pepper has decided not to encourage the guitarist to seek the medical attention he requires. Rather, Dr. Pepper is integrated Williams’ story into their “1 of a Kind” campaign, propping up his near lifeless body against a wall and making him pose with a guitar for a giveaway.
Remember, the moment your friend gets a Dr. Pepper tattoo is the moment you start setting arrangements for an intervention. Credits after the jump.
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A federal judge’s ruling could halt the resale of digital music as well as other digital good like e-books.
In its first week this season sharing the singing stage with NBC’s “The Voice,” “American Idol,” Fox’s perennial ratings giant, fell to its lowest-rated performances two nights in a row.
Justin Timberlake’s new album, “The 20/20 Experience,” posted huge sales after a carefully orchestrated marketing strategy.
They’ve already charmed us with symmetrical treadmill dancing and Google collaborations, so it’s no surprise that rock band OK Go is getting creative and innovative for their newest music video. Well actually, it’s you who will get creative, since the band partnered with Saatchi & Saatchi, Talenthouse, and BUG for a contest aimed at new directors searching for exposure.
The latest Saatchi & Saatchi Music Video Challenge, which has involved collaborations with the likes of Moby in the past, lasts until early-May, so auteurs have a few months to get adequately funky and artistic with OK Go’s new single “I’m Not Through.” The rockers won’t be making their own video this time, since they’re still in the studio finishing their next album. Outsourcing for cheap labor, Nike would be proud. We joke; OK Go gets the benefit of the doubt for their quirky videos that have been going viral for years, unlike now, where anything remotely creative/funny/newsworthy/embarrassing gets chewed up and spit out within a few days.
It’s a safe bet that whatever video they choose as a winner will be plenty imaginative. It just won’t recall Rube Goldberg, because they did that already.
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The Brooklyn band Ghost Beach addresses the debate over music piracy in a big way: on an LED billboard above the American Eagle Outfitters store in Times Square.
Concord’s niche was catering to adult tastes, with artists like Paul Simon and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and extensive jazz holdings.
The major competitors in digital music services are spending large sums on advertising campaigns that are meant to generate awareness, consideration and trial. The newest entrant in the ad club is Spotify, which plans on Monday to start its first campaign aimed at American music lovers.
Advertising has been obsessed lately with scaring the crap out of people. So here, for your Friday enjoyment, is a more benign prank. Target, which is the exclusive retail partner for the release of Justin Timberlake's new album, got 20 of the pop star's biggest fans together for a commercial shoot. They thought they would just be singing a Timberlake song for the ad. They didn't realize the great and powerful JT himself would actually be there. Check out the spot below, and a behind-the-scenes video after the jump. All the reactions are genuine. Decent work by Deutsch in Los Angeles—though to be honest, the bar for this kind of thing was set by David Beckham and Adidas last summer. If you don't leave someone sobbing tears of joy, maybe you haven't gone far enough.
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At the age of 23, the singer is experiencing a tumble in popularity that is also affecting her marketability.
Well, ad guys and gals, after seven long years we finally have a new album from the 21st century equivalent of late ’90s-era Justin Timberlake, Justin Timberlake.
On Tuesday, JT dropped his third full-length solo album, The 20/20 Experience. While it won’t live up the expectations of those who wanted another FutureSex/LoveSounds, 20/20 is still a very enjoyable listen front to back. For those of you who just want to put on some entertaining jams to dance around to with your friends and/or significant other(s), 20/20 will not fail you. You will smile, you will have fun, and if you’re lucky, you might even feel alive again.
To celebrate the triumphant return of His Timberlake-ness, creative team Amy Matheu and Nick Larson of CP+B Miami have created JT All Night Long, a first-of-its-kind digital experience that allows you to listen to JT’s voice on loop while staring into his soulful eyes via a compilation of music video clips. Do you like your JT vindictive and in the midst of revenge sex? Then watching him record himself while getting his lip bit off from the “Cry Me a River” video may be your thing. What about swaggy zoot suit JT? Well, look no further than his buttoned-up self in “Suit and Tie.” Are you kind of a creep who’s into teenagers? Well then, enjoy some clips from old ‘N Sync videos and stay away from me, you fucking weirdo.
In any case, if you want Justin Timberlake all night long, this is the closest you’ll probably come barring an incredibly elaborate and well-planned kidnapping. For your own sake, I’d suggest this.
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