Just the way to start off your Tuesday… a brand new Video Blog from your friendly neighborhood music licensing specialists. The latest edition features Jingle Jared and Aaron Neville (aka Jingle Liam) running through an acoustic set that includes some classic pop hits. As always, there’s some hilarious moments and great music. Check it out below and don’t be afraid to share!
The first Jingle Punks video blog of 2011 is here and it’s chock full of “firsts.” Not only does it follow Jingle Jared around as he gets ready to accept his very first ASCAP Award, but it’s also the first time I’ve been able to showcase my recently certified video editing akills. This is also going to be the first time someone mixes up the name of Men’s Wearhouse… but you’ll see. Of course there’s plenty of those “laugh out loud” moments you’re used to seeing in previous JP video blogs (I swear Jingle Jared needs his own reality show ASAP!). Anyway I’m pretty excited for you all to see how it turned out so check it out below and leave us some feedback!
Recently Jingle Punks formed a rogue division called the Jingle Punks All Stars featuring real life hillbillies that are setting out to cover every awesome song ever written in their own unique style. Their secret weapon is authentic Appalachian instruments and the Asian Charlie Daniels, also known as Shota – yes, that’s his real name. Without further adieu we present La Roux’s Bulletproof, which apparently we um, wrote? …not really. But maybe…
“On April 22nd, 2010, New York City based internet music database, Jingle Punks, presented the first west coast Jingle Schmingle, the official launch of Jingle Punks West Coast, at The Libertine on Sunset Blvd.”
At least that’s what the paper’s said… either way, it was a absolute blast!
We’d like to send out a huge thank you to our good friends Chiddy Bang for stopping by and performing their hit single, “Opposite of Adults.” Also enough thanks can’t be given to Savvy Le Chill for providing epic massage stations.
And of course most importantly we’d like to thank all of our artists and clients for coming out and celebrating with us! It was quite a crazy night and we absolutely enjoyed catching up with a lot of our old friends, and meeting some new ones as well. Also, big shout out to the Jingle Guy who was moonwalking and freeze dancing in everyone’s face. I personally ate one of Jingle Guys’ spikes by accident several times. It was gross!
Ok… here are some pics for now. More coming soon – enjoy!
The LA trip started off with a bang. I started out Friday night at the EMI family and friends event where I saw my friend Will who plays in MGMT. We know each other from NYC and he was in LA with his fiance for Grammy stuff, as soon as I bumped into him he shot me a look as if to say “uh oh, Jingle Jared is in LA, this might get ugly”. The night did turn out pretty epic all things considered… I met my guitar hero Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine. Met Katy Perry, who I think is a pretty sharp songwriter, and I also met Perez Hilton who is single handedly responsible for decreasing office productivity across the world… which I told him.
Saturday morning I worked off the night before with a nice walk around the Getty Center with Sexy Joe. That night we headed out to the Primary Wave Grammy Bash which ended up being a really, really fun event. I rolled to the party with my sister, Sam, who ended up acting as my defacto publicist and somehow convinced many of the celebs there to pose for pics with me while holding up Jingle Punks schwag…ha! If it were not for her I may have spent the entire party in the corner twiddling my thumbs. That night we ended up going to another unsanctioned Grammy thing at My House, a club that was pretty fun… but what made it even more fun was a another friend of mine from out of town decided to throw down his card and spend almost 10k in one night there. Ha! Can’t argue with fun like that right? I’m usually not one for those types of places, but I’m also not stupid, so I went along for the ride.
Our night ended at the W Hotel in Hollywood where I bumped into the girl from “Precious” and asked if she wanted to party with the Jingle Punks. She said NO. I said why not? She said cause you and your friends seem really stupid. Go figure.
Anyhow, after spending some time at the W After Party we got word of yet another party happening in the Hollywood Hills, so the whole crew descended en masse in a fleet of rental cars provide by my aforementioned out of town friend. Once we got there I wandered around looking for a place to settle and ended up walking straight into a glass door that I thought was an entry way to the porch… the whole room laughed as I bounced back from the glass. Luckily I didn’t hurt myself.
At this point I realized it was time to call it a night…it was 5:30 am and I needed to get some sleep if I was going to go the actual Grammys and all the parties afterwards. I got back to my sisters place at around 5:45 and realized I had given Sam my keys to hold onto so I wouldn’t lose them. In my head my only option was to bang on her door until she woke up, which I did, for a good 20 minutes until her neighbor came out of his place in underpants, socks and no shirt pointing a gun at me and asking me to identify myself. After I pooped my shorts I told him I would figure out another way to get into my sister’s place. To compound the problem I also lost my cell phone so calling was out of the question. My only other choice was to throw a hail mary and see if she would answer the front door buzzer. Which she did… I got in and went to sleep on my inflatable bed that Sam so graciously let me sleep on during my stay.
Sunday… this was a tough day. I didn’t really feel like doing much early on so I took a nap till the Grammy’s were over, then Ant, Sam and I rolled to the W Hotel, which was hosting the EMI Grammy party. All in all the night was a far more chill evening than the previous night, but not without it’s share of full on surreal moments…
First off I saw Slash, who I hung with a few times in NYC, but this time around his handlers threw a pick and blocked me from talking with him. I yelled “Slash, you’ve changed!” then walked away sad… ha! I tried easing my pain by making small talk with Russell Brand who told me that he found me to be very offensive, but memorable. So I got that going for me. The fact that I was rolling in a Jingle Punks T Shirt with red bandana wrapped around my head to a semi formal event didn’t help matters much. I was also advised by B Real from Cypress Hill that technically I was wearing gang colors and should be careful walking around the streets of LA like that… big oops.
So basically that was the crazy fun part of the week I had in LA. The rest of the time was spent going from production company to production company helping to spread the word about Jingle Punks in a much larger way. My time in LA was wonderfully beneficial though as I was able to meet some of our favorite clients and large music companies, all of which had amazing things to say about our company which was very nice. We hope to be back in LA soon to catch up with all the great new friends we made this time around!
And now I shall regale you with pictures from my trip to Los Angeles
Yesterday was a HUGE day at Jingle Punks. First off we got new shirts. Yes. They are rad and everyone is bugging us for one. If you need or want one, just blog something nice about us and send proof… we’ll make sure a shirt finds you.
After the shirts arrived we had a real actual girl in our offices. This was so exciting that it was like the equivalent of putting a female ape in the cage at the zoo with the all male primates. As you can see by the devilish grins on our faces this was exciting indeed. It worked out great because Sarah, the girl who came by to drop off music, just so happened to be a world class violin player and was cool enough to jump in on a project for us that needed fiddle skills. Watch below to see the madness unfold.