It has been a few weeks since my last Music in Commercials post. I think it due time for another. This week has a little less continuity than week but I have found some cool ones.
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In the last few weeks I was able to see a whole whack of shows. Instead of blogging about them in a timely fashion I ended up putting it off until I had accumulated six shows to talk about. Before this list grows too big, I am getting down to business and writing up this [...]
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This week I was able to see a couple more shows. This week was definitely the lesser of two weeks when compared to last week. The bands I intended to see were a little disappointing but through them I found a couple bands that I would have never found before.
Anna Ternheim
Anna is a solo, acoustic, [...]
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In the last week I was able to make it to a couple shows. First was the Laura Veirs / Liam Finn show followed by The Trucks / Northern State a few days later. Both shows were great for completely different reasons. In this post I’ll go over how they stacked up.
Liam Finn
The first set [...]
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As usual, this week I have scraped up three more commercials. Today’s post is all about commercials that really affected the popularity of the musician or song. The kind of artist that has three times as many listens on one song featured in a commercial than all others combined.
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I went to The Blow concert tonight. The venue was this tiny little church-like community center in middle of Vancouver. It was opened by a band called Secret Mommy, which actually sounded nothing like their MySpace. They were alright. Seemed like a mix of Aphex Twin and Architechure in Helsinki (sans the vocals).
At first I [...]
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Last Friday marked the first AMS Block Party at UBC, an event to celebrate the last day of classes. For the last 16 years this day has been known as Art’s County Fair. It was recently canceled due to supposed financial reasons. AFC was usually recognized more as a day that everyone on campus [...]
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I posted last week about music that I like being featured in advertisements. In that post I suggested that I would make it regular thing. This post is a product of that suggestion.
I got some feedback from a friend on some music to feature here. One of them was Architecture in Helsinki. While I really [...]
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Today as I was pumping through my daily Indie Playlist grind, I came across a band called The Hot Toddies. They have a 60’s inspired, harmonious, doo-wop sound with direct, sexual, and really playful lyrics. Their tastefully titled album Smell the Mitten is, at least on the first listen, pretty hit or miss (don’t miss [...]
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I was talking with a friend about this blog a while back and he had a cool idea about writing about indie music in commercials. I thought it would be fun, so I started thinking about music I could remember in commercials. After thinking of a couple I also went searching YouTube for more. Soon [...]
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