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.
It started off with news that a promo we did for History Channel had gone to air, featuring Ryan Star of Warner Music.
Next up, was music for the MTV Movie Awards which airs this weekend. We are psyched to be part of this because rumor has it that this year its going to be a really good one with some much needed comedy infused antics from Andy Samberg.
By the time I was ready for lunch I had already squeezed so much music into my day that was spent. Before I could get my lunch down I noticed in my ical I had 20 minutes to be in Brooklyn to record at Shabby Road studios for an HBO project. This project turned out to be the highlight of my day, if not the year thus far. I was asked to make some authentic Mexican music for a show open and was struggling to get that authentic sound. Then, last week, as I was about to give up, I found a Mexican folk band busking on the street and got their info. They agreed to come do an impromptu session of traditional folk songs for this and I would in turn produce a CD of music for them to keep. The deal was pretty sweet for all involved and I am very happy with the music we recorded and the overall vibe of the day.
Here are some pics and various recordings we made.
Every now and then Jingle Punks gets to work on some really amazing and funny projects. Here is something called The Potty Project for Huggies. Its pretty self explanatory. If you are a parent in the midst of potty training this is something that may interest you. If you are not a parent potty training your little one, you should check this out anyways for the sweet jams!
Aside from the potty training music we sometimes also are called upon to make some good old fashioned rock n roll. In this case Jingle Punks was asked to do music for this sweet series of car ads in Canada. In this spot we feature a band some of you may know called Generals & Majors. Enjoy!
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), Anthony 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.
After 8 years of composing music for TV, film and commercial projects I have finally found time to do what I said I would from the beginning…Organize the tracks in a web based searchable player.
Today, is a happy day for me. With the help of my programming team (cudos to Dan Demole and Jim Martinez for being so goddamn smart!) we are un-officially launching the Jingle Player (official release date is Oct 30th and we are having a big party at CAKE SHOP on the LES to celebrate…you are all invited…more on that soon)
OK…now for some cool news. Anyone out there who watches Food Network should tune in this weekend to catch the premiere of the Chef Jeff project which is our largest Jingle project to date. This show is sure to be a hit and we were thankful to be part of this creative process. Anyone who knows the backstory on Chef Jeff is sure to be inspired. He’s Oprah approved and really is a great person who I think will become a huge star. (thank you Adam Z and Mike M for bringing Jingle Punks onto this amazing show!)
BTW. this would not have been possible for me without the help of my amazing production coordinator Ricky Sanchez whom I highly recommend to anyone who will listen. He diligently entered thousands of song titles into a database and entered in reams of information that it should have taken a full team to do.
Our new friends at RGA digital hired us to make some sports cues for a cool NIKE project. In this NIKE campaign it teaches wanabee football players (such as yourself???) some super duper skills.
The first 4 videos (feat. James Harrison, Hines Ward, Lofa Tatupu, and Marcus Trufant) are up at Nike. Enjoy…learn all these skills and you may or may not end up in NFL?!
I tried some of these moves in my office today and broke all my stuff by accident…oops:
Next stop on the Jingle train…Chef Jeff project for Food Network. Tune in next week for more on this.
OK. If anyone caught the premiere of The Hills last night they were probably asking themselves many, many questions. ”Why is Heidi so smart?” ”Why is her boyfriend so handsome?” And possibly…”Why is there a ton of Jingle Punks tracks being played non-stop during the live component of the premiere?” OK, you may not have asked yourself any of these questions…but facts are facts and we can thank MTV (specifically Amanda and Kyle at MTV) for choosing some juicy jams to include in last nights festivities.
Here is a link to the madness… There were nearly 30 scenes that used cuts from the library (including tracks from Group Sounds and Generals & Majors).
