November 19, 2009
We're already well aware that Crayola wants your kids to listen to hip music while they do their coloring. So far we've seen Animal Collective take us down a sweet road to vibrant color, pre-sciatica Dan Deacon brandish his Glow Station, and Unicorns offering up "I Was Born A Unicorn" for Color Explosion 3-D. This time? Micachu and her shape-shifting Shapes appropriately tell us that melting and molding your own crayons is fun. (Thanks for the tip, Michael.) It's sorta how she composes songs, really. It's also good for recycling: "worn crayons" become "new color-swirl mini crayons." As with the previous Crayola commercials, there's something psychedelic going on here.
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November 17, 2009
Passion Pit's astrologically inclined "Little Secrets" video features a giant disco ball afloat in the Milky Way. The bug-eyed bald guy who lives there takes his diamond-esque rocket for a ride in a meteor and finds himself in some sort of Tron/Daft Punk/Star Wars-lightspeed approximation. The whole thing seems vaguely biological: The final atmospheric breakthrough might have impregnated North America, I think. You can watch the clip at YouTube. You don't need to travel across galaxies to hear the guys' familiar contribution to a flashy commercial for the webOS Palm Pixi, sleepyhead.
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November 5, 2009
Or vice versa. You guys often accuse the synth-pop crew for not smiling enough, but the Philly/NYC BTW provide the chirpy soundtrack for this joyful new Holiday Season Radio Shack ad. (Thanks for the tip, Zach.) The Caralee-fronted "Life Magazine" does the honors. Too bad they couldn't talk the company into giving it a go with "Sex Ads." It may very well be the most color you ever see connected to the band, so don't blink.
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October 26, 2009
Vampire Weekend's very familiar "A Punk" soundtracks a colorful (slow) trip (into the city) across Google Maps in an ad for the HP Photosmart Premium, "the world's first Internet connected printed." You'll have to watch to see how it works, but note: Now your sense of touch is also a sense of direction. As far as Contra material goes, the guys returned from Mexico with "Cousins" as the followup to "Horchata." Clearly good reason for a ticker tape parade. Watch them do it live after you watch the commercial.
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October 21, 2009
Antony Sings Puccini For Italian Coffee • Antony reinterpreted "Nessun Dorma" and sang it in Italian because "when you are drinking a good coffee or listening to intense music, very often you tend to close your eyes." You tend to do this while sleeping, too. Savor at lavazza.com (via DailySwarm).
October 3, 2009
Wal-Mart, Axe Say Phoenix Are The Next Big Thing • Hey Pearl Jam, Phoenix see your Target tie-in and raise you one Wal-Mart endorsement that also pimps Axe hair products. Watch at walmart.com. Apparently Axe has a product called Phoenix? Quelle coincidence (that's French for LOL).
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October 1, 2009
White Williams, Kills, Black Kids Go Retro For Ray-Ban • Since Ray-Ban's celebrating retro, they went back to 2007 for most of their spokespeople. Listen to streams and watch videos at Ray-Ban.
September 16, 2009
Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix had crossover written all over it from the first synth tones of "1901." And by now you know it's easy, like they did it all summer long. Which they did: raucous club shows, festivals, SNL, countless remixes, talk show appearances, and yes, finally, car commercials. If you haven't seen Wolfgang's non-"Listzomania" signature song filmed for a studio audience yet, we have last night's appearance on Conan along with the Cadillac advert that puts Phoenix one lime-beer commercial away from a perfect score on the multimedia-saturation index that goes from 1 to Santigold.
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