There has been some discussion over the past couple of years regarding artists lending their music to certain products, more specifically in commercials for those products. Much ado was made about Wilco songs in Volkswagen ads on television, upsetting quite a few Wilco fans, and you can hardly watch an hour of television these days without hearing a Spoon song in a product ad or movie preview.

Welcome to the environment that we have created, where artists have to seek out other alternatives to earn a living in order to continue pursuing their art. We all know that there isn’t any income from music sales these days, and touring costs an arm and a leg with gas prices currently.

So, in my usual fashion today as I sit and work on my laptop, I have a multitude of things working at the same time. I’m listening to KEXP on iTunes, I’m working on a couple of posts for the site, I’m checking e-mails, I have a couple of Myspace pages open checking on a few things, etc. The usual day. As I’m waiting for something to upload, and I’m checking out something of personal interest, I hear “Black Grease” from the Black Angels begin to play and I cannot figure out where it might be coming from. It’s not from my iTunes, I don’t have their Myspace open, and I’m a bit confused for a minute. I am checking out the T-Mobile page for the new Google G1 phone, which I’m completely stoked about, and I realize that this is where the song is coming from! The newest badass phone to hit the market soon and one of my favorite bands together. Seems a bit weird at first, but I like it!

Check it for yourself: The Black Angels and The G1

And for those of you who didn’t catch this one the first time around: The Black Angels and Roky Erikson In the Studio Together

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 9:21 am and is filed under austin bands, general music news.