A few weeks ago, Willie Nelson covered a Coldplay song for a Chipotle online video. That was pretty weird! Now, Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O has covered the classic Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings…   Read Story »

The new commercial for the video game FIFA Soccer 12 perfectly chops up "Ice Cream," the Matias Aguayo collab from Battles' new album Gloss Drop, with footage of random people (including Steve Nash,…   Read Story »

Alright, the latest edition of "Does [insert huge company] rip off [insert artist]?" is a little hairier -- this possible invocation of Phoenix's "Lisztomania" isn't as cut-and-dry as our last…   Read Story »

The last time out, we had a rip-off that tread into a bit of a gray area thanks to a key change, but this recent ad for Nokia in India is way more of an open-and-shut case. This is totally the same…   Read Story »

Reader Michael chimed in last night when he spotted the eerie similarity between Broken Bells' "The Ghost Inside" and a song used in a new Dell commercial. Michael writes: Note that the melody is…   Read Story »

There's not much to it, but here's a stylized clip of Julian Casablancas in a French perfume ad. In it he crowd surfs and presumably smells great. (via Consequence of Sound)   Read Story »

Willie Nelson covers Coldplay for a Chipotle ad -- why not, I guess? But "The Scientist" does sound pretty good in Nelson's signature twang so I'll take it. The ad itself, well, that's another story.…   Read Story »

Matt & Kim & Soulja Boy & Andrew W.K. are the latest triple-billing for Converse's corporately underwritten original MP3 project "Three Artists, One Song." (Previously: Julian Casablancas, Santigold,…   Read Story »

Last night while watching something on TV (Stewart or Colbert or Breaking Bad are my only options these days, so one of those) I heard a lady rhapsodizing about T-Mobile's "best deal ever," and then…   Read Story »

Havaianas USA has hooked up with Best Coast for a free show at the flip-flip brand's pop-up shop at Space 15Twenty in LA this Friday night. In celebration of partnership you can grab a download of…   Read Story »