So, one of our favorite bands, I Love Monsters is having the best week ever.
First off…They are headlining Mercury Lounge June 30th at 9:30. So anyone who wants to see something awesome should swing by.
If you need a reason to believe why they are awesome check this out…They landed in the season premiere of Entourage on HBO (ok We helped make that happen…just wanted to toot our own horn..hehe)
Thirdly, we just started a series about Jingle Punks artists playing in odd places. We have selected I Love Monsters as the test band for this pilot program…so look for clips from this soon…In the meantime feast your eyes on this excellent clip from Entourage featuring your new favorite band.
Over a year ago HBO came to Jingle Punks asking for an authentic mariachi song for their new series “Funny or Die Presents,” a show so funny, so awesome that it cannot be aptly described in this one blog alone – but we’re sure gonna try!
Anyways… for this project Jingle Punks called in reinforcements – we enlisted the help of Barry Danielian (Tower of Power) and Ozzie Melendez (Marc Anthony) along with Jingle Jared on guitar and bass and came up with a track that’s so amazing we want to show it off to you. If you recall (and I’m sure you do!) our earlier blogs about recording the authentic Mexican band… it should be noted that they were initially brought onto the project but the client eventually opted for a different direction with Jared writing comical lyrics and Ozzie translating and singing them in Spanish. What was produced can only be summed up in a single word – magic. Check it out.
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History Channel and Jingle Punks continue their love affair with a new show open for their series, Sliced. This makes it lucky number 3 for us – having already outfitted both American Pickers and Pawn Stars with the sweet sweet sounds of Jingle Punks music – and enjoy the clip below.
For this spot we want to give big ups to Angus Kahn who provided this blisteringly epic rock song. If you don’t know who Angus Kahn are please check out their Myspace page.
Our good friends at Brownstone Entertainment and Craigslist have teamed up to produce a series of webisodes called Craigslist TV which aims to follow actual Craigslist users on their quest to – well, do some Craigslisting… and enlisted our help in providing a little mood music.
We can’t tell you how excited we are to have this opportunity to partner with such a modern cultural icon as Craigslist and definitely want to thank our friends at Brownstone Entertainment for coming to us with this great project.
So without further adieu – please check it out below!
For all our cartoon frenzied fans out there we’ve got a couple of new projects we’re really excited to show you. First off – feast your eyes on this hilarious clip from the new animated Comedy Central series Ugly Americans. For this one we here at Jingle Punks took it back – way back to the 60′s for a sick wah wah psychedelic jam reminiscent of the Vietnam era.
In more animated Jingle Punks news, we are very very excited to finally share with you the new Hertog Ice Cream piece we composed a few months back. You may remember this tune from a certain Jingle Video Blog featuring our super talented friend Sarah.
So after months of edits and animation the piece is finally here. Check it out and get ready to have line dancing cows in your face, and our catchy melody in your head for the rest of the day.
We want to congratulate Adam Arcuragi on one of our coolest synchs to date.
His track “Bottom of the River” got selected by Walmart as their official Song of Summer for their Rollback campaign. If you haven’t heard this track yet we recommend doing some good ole fashioned Googling and tracking it down. (psst… or you can just watch it here – look out below…) At any rate here’s a link to Adam’s site. Check em out and discover his music now so you can say you knew him before he was big time!
Over the holidays, Jingle Punks did music for a new History Channel show called Madhouse. We were asked to make a new master of “One Piece at a Time” by Johnny Cash and because we were all on vacation when the request came in we used several studios, locations and artists to make this happen.
Here is a breakdown of how the process for this worked.
Step 1: I produced the basic track for the network to approve. For this I used my portable logic studio using Logic and the Apogee One. During this round I played all the instruments and put in temp vocals.
Step 2: Revisions to the instrumentation and vocals were requested and the track tempo was adjusted to fit the picture.
Step 3: Reach out to one of our Jingle Punks Artists to step in as vocals on this track.
When all was said and done the final track production was as follows. I played acoustic and bass guitar and drums, Matt Chambless played electric guitar, Jeff Peters played the washboard and James Mason was the star of this on vocals.
Below is a few selections from our library that were used in the CBS People’s Choice Awards. The show was hosted by Queen Latifah and featured a whos who of Hollywoods top talent. We were honored to be part of this program and look forward to continue being utilized for awards shows and live events.
Jingle Punks helps NBC’s hit Chuck prepare for his upcoming season.
This promo contains a sneak preview at the new season of the hit show. This promo features Blackledge Records artist Tim Brantley and his song “I can’t make you want me.”
Watch the promo and also check out Tim’s website where you can hear all his music and find out where to see him live in the next couple months. We expect some big things from him and his Chuck promo is just one of his many really cool accomplishments.
One of our favorite new shows is Bully Beatdown on MTV. It helps that this is a show that:
A- We do music for
B- Involves Bully’s getting their asses whooped by MMA fighters for cash and cheap laughs
C- Is bringing back the Rawk to MTV
And one of our favorite bands of the moment is Angus Kahn. These guys are rude, loud and rock really really hard. So it’s no surprise that Bully Beatdown is featuring their debut single “Big Balls” in this Thursday’s episode during the MMA fighter intro.
Angus Khan
Please tune in and watch the madness. Help spread the word anyway you can. This show is a must watch and this band is going to be HUGE! Take it all in and enjoy!
