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.
Jingle Punks likes to get involved in a good cause every now and then. If this cause involves forming a rad drum circle and jamming like we are at a Dead show in 1975…even better.
This week we decided to walk around the office and poll our group of tastemakers and music gurus about what they listen to when no one else is around.
Take a look at the musical choices our crew came up with and please…post to our comment board and on Facebook if you feel we missed some of your favorite guilty pleasures.
As some of you may remember (those who follow our tweets and facebook shenanigans), a few weeks back a writer from Brazil asked to do a story on Jingle Punks Music for a magazine called PEGN, which is akin to the Business Week of Brazil. Little did we know this story was going to be epic and feature pictures of Dan and I jumping through the air like David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar on crack. There’s mention of “Milionaria” in the title too, which is worth a laugh (and some raised eyebrows from our girlfriends!).
I still don’t know exactly what the article actually says but I’m a shallow guy and it looks cool, so its good enough for me. For anyone that wants to know what is the meat of the story I can tell you only what I told the writer.
Once upon a time Dan and I went to concert, got really watsed, threw drinks on one another and the next day we started a company. OK, there is a little more to it than that, like the 120 hour work weeks we put in, our empty bank accounts, the constant travelling, the never seeing our loved ones and other boring things the kids may not want to read about…
Oh, and any Brazilian readers out there how can get a hold of a copy and let us know what it says… we’d appreciate it.
Minor note… we have a new Jingle Video blog coming live this week, so stay tuned.
Jingle Punks should feel proud today. We were lucky enough to have our music in this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Ethan, Dan and I went to MPE to watch the first episode with the folks who created the show. The party was pretty fun, we drank some champagne and got laughed at because our new business cards have um…our pics on em… which some people found creepy and other folks found hilarious. Either way it was a great ice breaker and we met some really cool folks. Check out some of the snaps from this night.
Having some civilized drinks with the EP of Real Housewives of Atlanta
We took it to the Jane street hotel for some post housewives nightcaps.
After jingle schmingling for a few hours we watched the first episode which was amazing. Ep #1 ended with a classic scene about how customer service these days is a dying trend. We hope we never have a scene like this in our offices and we learned a great lesson by watching how not to run a company.
Well, for some time now our friends and even some of our clients, Mom’s and Dad’s have been asking Dan and I to document some of our day to day activities so they could get a sense of what it is we actually do here at Jingle Punks all day.
These first videos will not make anything clear except for the fact that everyday is completely different for us.
Some days we are recording with street musicians in Brooklyn…
Other days we are in LA taking rapid fire meetings to get our roster of artists placed in shows…
Today Dan and I touched down in LA for a series of meetings and as we landed we were told that AM New York ran a piece on our company. The only thing sad about the timing of this is that Dan and I wish we could be in NYC the day it went to press so we could ride the subways and be treated like local celebs…haha. Oh well, we can’t have our cake and eat it too.
AM NY Scan
Seriously though, check out the piece and keep helping us spread the word, this is just the beginning and we are always trying to find new and cool ways to get our artists placed in shows from around the media universe.
The continuing adventures of Jingle Jared and Jingle Dan keep on rolling. Every week seems to bring something new and exciting. This past week alone not one but two new shows debuted. Z Rock which is our first series for IFC premiered this past Sunday and we are really happy to be part of this hilarious and well written show.
The other show we provided music for was A&E’s much anticipated Hammer Time.
This show is pretty much self explanatory and I am sure we will add this one to our ever growing list of guilty pleasure viewing.
Big thanks to Greg D at 3 Ball for getting us involved in Hammer Time and a much thanks to Mark Mark Productions who took a chance on us early on and has been placing us in tons of new shows.
All of this excitement is happening just in time for Dan and I’s next jaunt out to LA. Last time, we met Diddy and Tila Tequila, how we gonna top ourselves this time…By meeting Erkel and Brett Michaels? Who knows, but I am sure we will have som great stories this time around.
If any LA Jingle Punks have shows between June 22-25 while we are in LA, send the dates our way and we will make it a point to come see you.
Woke up this morning and got a call from one of new clients at RGA. They were using our Jingle Player to find some music for a pet hair remover ad…They found it all via our keyword search tool. We saved them some money on the music licensing fee and all parties were happy.
Stay tuned for the clip once we get a copy of it. In the meantime check out some music we are doing for a kids DVD series with Al Roker called Get Down With Nouns. All the music provided in this set of DVD’s will be archived and licensable in our database starting in 2009.
Busy, busy and busy. Past few weeks can only be described as that.
Thursday night we had Jingle Punks first ever “meeting of the minds”. Some of our guests included Ethan Goldman (ex-development exec at MTV), Miranda Johnson (MTV Producer of Sweet 16), Jason Ryan (veteran MTV producer), Athony Martini (Crush Management who rep Fall Out Boy and Gym Class Heroes), Dave Sandford (KSM Management who’s primary client is Sting), Justin Fanstasia (veteran editor that worked with me in my dot.com days and Kal D. from Muze. We batted around ideas over Cranberry Martini’s at Orchard bar (which is pretty manly). We also had special guests pop in and out during the course of the night (including a PR guru who will remain un-named). Was a fun time and turned out to be the makings of what Dan and I like to call our “dream team”. We feel lucky to be keeping company with such smart and talented people and hope we can continue our momentum into the holiday season.
In the new year we will get even more music ingested into the Jingle Player, find more places to place our music and come up with a solid business strategy to implement. In the meantime, we are logging cues by the thousands and trying to make our database look and feel right.
I look forward to everyone coming together in 09 to help us launch this amazing service.
In the meantime here is a quick how to video I put together this week.
