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BMW has a new ad for their X5 SUV, and it features Wolfrider’s divine track “For You.” The song might be the best utilization of whistling since “Young Folks” by Peter, Bjorn, and John, but like that tune, it is a good enough song to stand on it’s own without the whistle refrain…but the whistles sure do make good icing on the top.

Wolfrider on Facebook | Last.fm

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Verizon has a pretty amazing next-level interactive ad campaign running on their website for their new Verizon Jetpack mobile hotspot.  It’s a fully interactive commercial, where users can pan left and right and observe different people at a cafe and is a really great hint at the future (we imagine it won’t be long before this type of commercial is all over TVs, too as they gain interactive ability). Beyond the innovative and interesting new way to use technology, this ad also gets major props from us for their great use of music with Adam Green and Binki Shapiro’s infectious “Here I Am.” You may know Adam Green from The Moldy Peaches, while Shapiro also plays in one of our favorite bands, Little Joy. Just as this new ad challenges the notion of what a commercial can be, so too does the music of Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, only this time with their own twisted take on traditional folk and rock music.  Adam Green & Binki Shapiro on Facebook | Last.fm Zoom

Verizon has a pretty amazing next-level interactive ad campaign running on their website for their new Verizon Jetpack mobile hotspot.  It’s a fully interactive commercial, where users can pan left and right and observe different people at a cafe and is a really great hint at the future (we imagine it won’t be long before this type of commercial is all over TVs, too as they gain interactive ability).

Beyond the innovative and interesting new way to use technology, this ad also gets major props from us for their great use of music with Adam Green and Binki Shapiro’s infectious “Here I Am.” You may know Adam Green from The Moldy Peaches, while Shapiro also plays in one of our favorite bands, Little Joy. Just as this new ad challenges the notion of what a commercial can be, so too does the music of Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, only this time with their own twisted take on traditional folk and rock music. 

Adam Green & Binki Shapiro on Facebook | Last.fm

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Summer is just around the corner, and that is putting us in the mood for good surfy tunes, like “Miracle” by the deftly-named Ghost Beach. Express Clothing is also clearly on the same page with us when it comes to this jam, as they have chosen to feature it in a video on their website promoting their summer line. You can click on the image above to watch the video on the Express website. Ghost Beach on Facebook | Last.fm

Summer is just around the corner, and that is putting us in the mood for good surfy tunes, like “Miracle” by the deftly-named Ghost Beach. Express Clothing is also clearly on the same page with us when it comes to this jam, as they have chosen to feature it in a video on their website promoting their summer line. You can click on the image above to watch the video on the Express website.

Ghost Beach on Facebook | Last.fm

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Posted 2 weeks ago

HBO shows have always stood out as the cream of the crop when it comes to premiere network shows. The new series VICE is helping HBO push the envelope even further with it’s hard-hitting investigative news/documentary format. Last week’s episode featured a look into China’s problems now that men outnumber women so greatly, and also takes a look at how youth in Greece and Spain are responding to the financial crisis in the reason.

While that’s all fine and dandy, we of course wouldn’t be mentioning this if the show didn’t feature some great music, and last week’s episode made sure of that by starting the episode off with “Unconsolable” by Ambassadors. The song’s mix of blues, soul, electro and modern indie pop is the perfect starting point if you’ve never heard of these up-and-comers from Brooklyn.

Ambassadors on Facebook | Last.fm

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This week’s episode of Army Wives, “Jackpot,” features one of our favorite new songs of the year - “I Don’t Care” by Peter Black. Black’s cinematic approach to songwriting gives all of his tunes the perfect dramatic pulse to use in movies or TV shows, and “I Don’t Care” can be heard during a scene at The Hump Bar. You can stream the whole episode on Lifetime’s website for a limited time. Peter Black on Facebook | Last.fm Zoom

This week’s episode of Army Wives, “Jackpot,” features one of our favorite new songs of the year - “I Don’t Care” by Peter Black. Black’s cinematic approach to songwriting gives all of his tunes the perfect dramatic pulse to use in movies or TV shows, and “I Don’t Care” can be heard during a scene at The Hump Bar.

You can stream the whole episode on Lifetime’s website for a limited time.

Peter Black on Facebook | Last.fm

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Posted 1 month ago

Andrew McMahon + Smash looks to be a match made in heaven. We recently shared with McMahon’s song “I Heard Your Voice in a Dream” which was on Smash, and now he’s back with another standout track called “Reach For Me.” Watch a video above of the song, which plays a theater fundraiser where Ana as ”The Diva” mesmerizes the audience with a performance of the song.

Andrew McMahon on Facebook | Last.fm

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Remember “Smile” by Uncle Kracker? That was one of the best country crossover hits of 2009, one of those songs that can make you happy in an instant. 

The folks at Cold Stone Creamery certainly remember this song, as they have built a whole new branding campaign called “Smile” based around the song. You can watch a commercial above, which features a new recording of “Smile” and, of course, plenty of smiling faces.

Uncle Kracker on Facebook | Last.fm

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Great Northern songs unfold with a cinematic flair that makes each tune seem like a mini-movie. Take for example, “New Tricks” which plays in its entirety in the most recent episode of Beauty and The Beast, “Partners In Crime.”  The song provides the mood for a scene where Cat & Vincent talk in the tunnel just before their encounter with the bad cops - and we definitely have to give props to the producers for letting the whole song play (they must’ve realized how well it supplemented the scene, too). You can click on the image above to stream the entire episode on The CW’s website. Great Northern on Facebook | Last.fm  Zoom

Great Northern songs unfold with a cinematic flair that makes each tune seem like a mini-movie. Take for example, “New Tricks” which plays in its entirety in the most recent episode of Beauty and The Beast, “Partners In Crime.” 

The song provides the mood for a scene where Cat & Vincent talk in the tunnel just before their encounter with the bad cops - and we definitely have to give props to the producers for letting the whole song play (they must’ve realized how well it supplemented the scene, too). You can click on the image above to stream the entire episode on The CW’s website.

Great Northern on Facebook | Last.fm 

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When Jack’s Mannequin decided to call it quits last year, we felt some strong mixed emotions. Sad to see it end of course, but also excited because Andrew McMahon announced he was starting a new project in which he would drop the Jack’s Mannequin moniker and just use his own name. His track record speaks for itself, so we were confident his new solo venture would explore new territory, but still please fans of Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin.

What we didn’t know at the time was that McMahon was going to expand even beyond the normal realm of just writing (great) pop songs.  One of these new ventures has been writing musical theatre, and in a recent episode of NBC’s Smash, a McMahon-penned song called ”I Heard Your Voice in a Dream” is featured, which you can watch above. In short, the song lives up to our expectations and perhaps even exceeds them - but don’t take that from us, check out the video for yourself above.

Andrew McMahon on Facebook | Last.fm

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Shameless has so much good music that if we had more free time on our hands, we could run an entire site just dedicated to the music in this show alone. Since we don’t, we just like to bring you our favorite highlights each week, and this week’s episode “Civil Wrongs” features three songs that stand out in particular. First is a song by 1985, a band we were introduced to by a recent Pizza Hut ad. Their song “A Beautiful Life” which features beautiful layered harmonies and rollicking rhythms, plays when Veronica announces that she and Kev are having a baby. Long-time indie stalwarts Middle Distance Runner have their track “Firehouse” play when Fiona’s new friend at work invites her to lunch. Last, Fellow Bohemian, an upcoming artist we were introduced to by Shameless last season, have another song in the show. The LA-based indie popsters’ new track “It Takes So Little” plays when Ian tells Lip about Mickie’s girlfriend. All three bands feature a common sonic thread of great vocal harmonies, jangly guitars, and rolling drums, and it’s nice to see how bands like Middle Distance Runner have paved the way for new artists in the same vein like 1985 and Fellow Bohemian. There’s only two more episodes of Shameless left this season after this, and we can’t wait to hear what other great tunes will show up. 1985 on Facebook | Last.fm Middle Distance Runner on Facebook | Last.fm Fellow Bohemian on Facebook | Last.fm Zoom

Shameless has so much good music that if we had more free time on our hands, we could run an entire site just dedicated to the music in this show alone. Since we don’t, we just like to bring you our favorite highlights each week, and this week’s episode “Civil Wrongs” features three songs that stand out in particular.

First is a song by 1985, a band we were introduced to by a recent Pizza Hut ad. Their song “A Beautiful Life” which features beautiful layered harmonies and rollicking rhythms, plays when Veronica announces that she and Kev are having a baby.

Long-time indie stalwarts Middle Distance Runner have their track “Firehouse” play when Fiona’s new friend at work invites her to lunch.

Last, Fellow Bohemian, an upcoming artist we were introduced to by Shameless last season, have another song in the show. The LA-based indie popsters’ new track “It Takes So Little” plays when Ian tells Lip about Mickie’s girlfriend.

All three bands feature a common sonic thread of great vocal harmonies, jangly guitars, and rolling drums, and it’s nice to see how bands like Middle Distance Runner have paved the way for new artists in the same vein like 1985 and Fellow Bohemian. There’s only two more episodes of Shameless left this season after this, and we can’t wait to hear what other great tunes will show up.

1985 on Facebook | Last.fm

Middle Distance Runner on Facebook | Last.fm

Fellow Bohemian on Facebook | Last.fm