Black Keys songs...EVERYWHERE!!
The Juggler
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i know there's a lot of black keys fans here....what do you guys think of this?
can't turn on the tv without without hearing them lately. tonight i saw the cadilac commercial with "howling for you" ...half hour later---boom "tighten up" featured in a subaru commercial....subaru? :?
love the keys. i'm a fan of brothers.....not sure how i feel about this kind of promotion though. seems a bit overkill to me. what say you?
can't turn on the tv without without hearing them lately. tonight i saw the cadilac commercial with "howling for you" ...half hour later---boom "tighten up" featured in a subaru commercial....subaru? :?
love the keys. i'm a fan of brothers.....not sure how i feel about this kind of promotion though. seems a bit overkill to me. what say you?
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I believe you can hear it here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133276978 ... black-keys
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
I'd agree with this statement. With the advent of selling single tracks on itunes and filesharing, I'd imagine bands are getting less and less $ from album/single sales. Doesn't mean that people aren't aware of your music, you're just getting less from it's sales. If it's going to bring awareness and any other revenue in (album sales, ticket sales), I can see where it becomes an easier decision for up and coming bands to do this.
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if kia wanted to use my song i'd be stoked
money is nice to have
not just up and coming bands do this. A huge complaint of mine post Backspacer for PJ was their relatively timid embracing of this idea. Yeah they liscenced a few songs to a few shows, but i thin you have to do it the Vampire Weekend or Black Keys way and liscence a ton of songs to a ton of different things.
the math on it is pretty straight forward. The fact is, if you liscenc songs to tv and commercials and movies, your records get more press and attention and sales increase. thats fact.
They are doing what they have to do. Nothing wrong with that. They are still true to their music when they right and perform.
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"Contra" also is the second independently-distributed album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the past year. It is distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance and marks the first indie set to top the tally since Pearl Jam's self-released "Backspacer" debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Oct. 10, 2009.
were you the guy complaining that pearl jam should have been putting their songs into shows like the gilmore girls and laguna beach or some shit? i remember that.
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
were you the guy complaining that pearl jam should have been putting their songs into shows like the gilmore girls and laguna beach or some shit? i remember that.
yep that was me. the stated goal this time, when they launched backspacer, from the horses mouth, was to sell some records. They wanted the press and the sales this time. Which is rare for PJ, but nonetheless thats what they wanted. My whole thing, was that, if your gonna try and boost sales, you gotta do more than what they did. I just felt like they spent way too much energy on the physical products, the cover, the art, the target deal, and less, way less than they should have on marketing. Not marketing it by doing press with Rolling stone or Spin or Mtv which is what they did. Lets face it folks, those magazines are dead, no 13 year old kid who is hungry for new exciting music is gonna wait breathlessly for the mailman to bring him the newest issue of Rolling Stone. Times have changed, and ive seen first hand, as I volunteer at a music venue, and we get alot of musicians who were promoted via tv shows. Mat Kearney, Greg Laswell, Joe Purdy. Its all marketing 101. And you cant expect to sell your full potential if you arent tapping into the way most new bands are heard these days, which is via tv shows. Whether thats Chuck, or 90210, or Gossip Girl, thats the truth. Exposure on those shows equals sales, seems a pretty easy equation to me.
Im hopeful that next album PJ, takes a lesson, and go that route, bliztzing tv shows and commercials, and movies. Cause thats how you generate sales now. Even interviews they do with The End make little sense to me. Who listens to commercial radio these days, especially the alt rock (yuck!!) stations and finds out about new bands? I havent turned on the radio and found a band i loved in years, a decade even. Save KEXP and KCRW. Its just the nature of the beast in 2011
which reminds me, you gotta love how the grammys still has an alternative music category in the awards. Didnt that die out in 1994? They gonna get an indie category soon, or maybe we will have to wait another decade for that!
yep that was me. the stated goal this time, when they launched backspacer, from the horses mouth, was to sell some records. They wanted the press and the sales this time. Which is rare for PJ, but nonetheless thats what they wanted. My whole thing, was that, if your gonna try and boost sales, you gotta do more than what they did. I just felt like they spent way too much energy on the physical products, the cover, the art, the target deal, and less, way less than they should have on marketing. Not marketing it by doing press with Rolling stone or Spin or Mtv which is what they did. Lets face it folks, those magazines are dead, no 13 year old kid who is hungry for new exciting music is gonna wait breathlessly for the mailman to bring him the newest issue of Rolling Stone. Times have changed, and ive seen first hand, as I volunteer at a music venue, and we get alot of musicians who were promoted via tv shows. Mat Kearney, Greg Laswell, Joe Purdy. Its all marketing 101. And you cant expect to sell your full potential if you arent tapping into the way most new bands are heard these days, which is via tv shows. Whether thats Chuck, or 90210, or Gossip Girl, thats the truth. Exposure on those shows equals sales, seems a pretty easy equation to me.
Im hopeful that next album PJ, takes a lesson, and go that route, bliztzing tv shows and commercials, and movies. Cause thats how you generate sales now. Even interviews they do with The End make little sense to me. Who listens to commercial radio these days, especially the alt rock (yuck!!) stations and finds out about new bands? I havent turned on the radio and found a band i loved in years, a decade even. Save KEXP and KCRW. Its just the nature of the beast in 2011
which reminds me, you gotta love how the grammys still has an alternative music category in the awards. Didnt that die out in 1994? They gonna get an indie category soon, or maybe we will have to wait another decade for that![/quote]
you have a point but then again an actual full scale tour (which did not happen) and television appearances around the release date would have done pj much better than the limited tour and tv appearances 3 months prior and 6 months after the release :? :roll: . i don't think their marketing made much sense at all for backspacer.
but selling 500,000 records in this day in age is actually decent. and pj accomplished that with minimal exposure.
i'll be interested in seeing how the sirius channel promotes the new album....whenever the hell that will be
Molly's Chambers...
With society as a whole moving to everything digital, I dont really have a big problem with promoting your music through television adds anymore. If someone can go on youtube and click on your song to listen to it, why cant someone else turn on the television and hear the same thing.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/must-see-tv- ... l-out-off/
This.
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..And away.. we go!
MSG 5/20/2010
MSG 5/21/2010
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
...and pete townsend does a whooooooooooole lot with his songs
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Nice to see you mention Greg Laswell...I had the opportunity to jam with Shillglen once, his old San Diego band, and did some photography for their band after that. Their album "Sometimes I Feel" is amazing. I still play it quite a bit.
you forgot to mention Blakroc - What you do to me! Zales jewelery commercial... (seems Zales has a few ads with the keys)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD_WcVkYvsM
also looks like chevy camaro blakroc edition has a commercial with the song On the Vista
http://www.ddotomen.com/2010/02/05/dame ... ommercial/
i feel like not enough people know about Blakroc... CHECK IT OUT! Black Keys + Hip Hop = awesomeness
cool as shit
Nice! I love these guys so much.
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
They have a grammy discount code tonight.
They have been around for YEARS
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