Jingle Punks teamed up with the Major League Baseball Network for a project about spring training. The MLB Network asked for a song to underscore a promo that highlights all 30 baseball clubs in 30 days. By combining this theme with some trademark rock n roll riffage, the Jingle Punks wrote and recorded “Out on the Road” right here in the JP offices. “Out on the Road” was the initial tune, and with the addition of lyrical content about the return of summer and teams heading back into action, the Jingle Punks team crafted a catchy rock jingle. PLAY BALL!!

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.

Check it out!

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 All the Way!

Profile from this months ASCAP Playback Magazine

On my last trip to LA I took the opportunity to take a photo opp with one of my favorite people in the entertainment industry. Little did I know he would overshadow my chance to get a solo snap in my profile piece in the pages of ASCAP playback. Oh well, I was glad just to get a chance to let more of our ASCAP affiliated composers know about our service and how they can get involved with us.

The past few weeks have seen Jingle Punks in the trade press quite a bit and I just wanted to post a pic of the Variety Music for Screens issue which has us sharing the front cover with Penelope Cruz and The Beatles (never in my wildest dreams did I ever see myself in a pop culture sandwich of this magnitude).

Jingle Punks on cover of Variety with the Beatles

In the next few days we will be launching our 2nd Jingle Punks taste maker compilation which will be a collection of the hottest cues we have from our roster.

A lot of people have been asking us for more video updates because our first ones were watched by a whopping 98 people….c’mon you gotta re-tweet this if you want us to take the time to make some videos.

Anyways, if a picture is worth 1000 words than this video is worth at least 10,000 words. So on that note. No more words. Just click to watch.

The night begins

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.

This clip is classic. Enjoy!

Whatever happened to customer service?

Our deal with Bravo was announced in todays Billboard Magazine in the business section section. Here is a link to the article which explains all the juicy details. This deal coincides with Jingle Punks being part of this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta which begins airing next week. We are very excited to be part of this show and the Bravo brand and feel like this will create some amazing opportunities for our artists to get placed in some of the most talked about programming on TV today.

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So this week has already started with a bang. First off. Jingle Punks has finally moved into our new office. We are so excited to now have a space where we can meet clients, compose music and hang out with all our Jingle bands when they swing through town. We also just put the finishing touches on our first ever compilation of Jingle Punks key tracks for the month of July.  If you are on our mailing list you will be getting a link to this shortly.

As well, Jingle Punks has been busy working on some really cool new projects. MTV recently asked us to do some pitches for a new show and to make these songs extra awesome we brought in some hired guns. Check out the below video and enjoy.

That’s all for now.  Stay tuned as our next Jingle Blog is going to feature some behind the scenes shenanigans from our epic move.

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…