Is there anything as niggling as hearing a song in a TV ad you know you know, but you dontquiteknow enough to name it?
Or anything as exhilarating as catching a snippet of a song for the first time that you have to hear again right away?
First off: The Palm Pre from Sprint, featuring angular L.A. rockers Io Echos Doorway (thats singer Joanna Gikas vamping in the 3-D phone); you’re free to find the song on iTunes, orstreaming here on their MySpace:
Next up: The Carls Jr. ad featuringThe Hills Audrina Patridge snarfing down a teriyaki burger in a gold bikini to the sounds of Jenny Lewis breathy wails on The Moneymaker, from indie stalwarts Rilo Kileys 2007 releaseUnder the Blacklight:
And last but not least, the Dell commercial full of quirky, ethnographically diverse young people going in one door and coming out the other happily be-laptopped?Theyre accompanied by the ethnographically diverse synth-pop duoStereo Totals kooky-modI Love You Ono(which is actually a cover of a song by defunct Japanese new wave outfit the Plastics), on their 06 recordMy Melody:
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