"Commercials are now the new mainstream radio and there’s not even an element of anyone suspecting a band is selling out anymore when you go and do commercials"

Huh?

thank you for integrity. thank you very much.

Are people really going to continue to to tolerate this idiocy?
I understand the dude is Canadian and it's all about the love and whatnot, but this is getting ridiculous.

I agree with the radio analogy. I have non-musicy friennds who will buy records based on a song they heard on a commercial that they wouldn't have heard otherwise (go team for instance). Radio stations in most small towns and even medium sized cities isn't exactly cutting edge. It's basically a national clear channel rotation.

his girlfriend just got extremely popular due to exactly what he is talking about.. only idiocy here is those not understanding.

i'd rather see my favorite indie band hawking for a local car salesman than for Apple... because that's keeping it local and keeping it real.

woah.

yeah, and if you're an independent band who loves making music and want to do it instead of temping or some bullshit, it's one of the only ways to really make any money and support yourself.

He's just a poser.

enough of this fucking douche!!!!! ENOUGH!!!!

bands have to get paid. when no one buys cds, then this is what they have to do.

"yeah, and if you're an independent band who loves making music and want to do it instead of temping or some bullshit, it's one of the only ways to really make any money and support yourself."

Well said.

All the haters on this post are just pissed because the bands they listen to that the majority doesn't know about(which makes them "cool"), are becoming "popular".

how else you gonna get paid with 15 other f'n people in your band?

If you want to sell your songs to McDonalds to buy a house, go for it. It's your life, your songs, your needs. If you feel bad about it, grow some balls Kevin! Not some of the lamest and dumbest excuses I have ever heard.

"Commercials are now the new mainstream radio."

Is he jealous of Feast's iPod commercial?

music is my boyfriend

music is my girlfriend

music is my daddy

music's my imaginary friend

MY MUSIC IS WHERE ID LIKE YOU TO TOUCH

(also my iPod Touch is where id like you to touch)

It seems like the issue most people have re: indie rock artists' songs appearing in commercials are merely related to the products they're pimping (i.e. WalMart = bad, so Band of Horses = sellouts, iPods = hip, sexy, so Feist = hip, sexy).

Does anyone really, really give a shit if indie rockers make a little cash off selling their songs to commercials? It seems like people are more pissed that their little, exclusive indie rock club is being hijacked by corporations, resulting in - gasp - un-hipster neocons liking YOUR music!

Gee golly!

"music is my boyfriend
music is my girlfriend
music is my daddy
music's my imaginary friend
MY MUSIC IS WHERE ID LIKE YOU TO TOUCH
(also my iPod Touch is where id like you to touch)"

Is this CSS?

yup....perfect fit

wonder how much that has boosted their sales

For me, the problem with this is that we rarely ever hear an artist or a band say something honest and straightforward about a deal like this. Something along the lines of "yeah, they offered us a ton of cash and I just had my second kid and I've never owned a home and haven't had a vacation in 7 years so I took the money. It wasn't an easy decision, and I feel conflicted about it, but I'm happy that my mortgage is back under control and that my daughter has a fancy new tricycle etc. etc."
But instead we get all these self-important assholes being defensive about it, talking shit about "do you live off the grid?" or "this was the last move we could make when we were starting out as a band"
What a bunch of shit.

Wouldn't you love to hear someone say something like "I created this song for x purpose (that purpose being a complicated thing in itself) but this company offered me a lot of money to use the song for a different purpose. Purpose Y. I took their money and now they are using my song and that's my shit to deal with"

You know?

Seriously, there is just nothing worse than these BSS dudes.
Do you realize they have text on their record that reads, in large letters: "We Hate Your Hate"?

I mean, can you imagine anything more awful?

yeah, i can: selling people's memories to clorox.

How was the show at Webster Hall? Anyone go?

a few songs and pics from the 11.14.07 Webster Show here:
http://solitaryshowgoer.blogspot.com/2007/11/kevin-drew-w-broken-social-scene-plays.html

yeah, anyone got a setlist?

do you see the racist white trees in the racist forest in that picture?

racist!!!

god is nothing safe from Corporations? scary.

"I think a lot of people have been very smart about it and put their songs in very good spots."

A lot of people. You mean you ang your girlfriend?

Good spots? No such thing.

Kevin Drew is a wanker!(His music's pretty lame too!)

Yeah I think Kevin Drew is completely wrapped up in his own self-importance, but I have mixed feelings on the subject. On one hand, I really respect Tom Waits for refusing to sell the rights to use his music in commercials and he even took a couple of companies to court over the years (and won). On the other hand, I was was reading an interview with Issac Brock and he said (about selling his music)
"Figuring out ways to pay the rent isn't really a tough decision. Around the time we did the beer commercial and the shoe commercial, I thought, "Am I compromising my music by doing this?" And I think not. I like keeping the lights on in my house. People who don't have to make their living playing music can bitch about my principles while they spend their parents' money or wash dishes for some asshole. Principles are something that people are a lot better at checking in other people than keeping their own."

I don't know, well put I think.
But Kevin Drew is still a fucking douchebag.