NEW EXPLORATIONS Portland pop rockers Derby drive it on home with their track If Ever There's A Reason for a FORD EXPLORER national commercial.
ONE TREE HILL SEASON Optic Noise's music gets heard in a multitude of ONE TREE HILL episodes, including Downpilot's In The Morning.
OTH PART DEUX The Dimes's bright jangly September plays well on ONE TREE HILL.
BIG ENOUGH Baby I Love You by Kim Taylor gets played out in the final scene of an episode of the C/W's SMALLVILLE.
TO BATTLE ARMY WIVES uses Actionslacks' Joan of Arc for the season opener episode.
OTH PART TROIS Another ONE TREE HILL use for The Dimes, with the rolling upbeat pop of Coming Home. Fellow Portlanders Derby keep The Dimes company with their song Michigan.
LOST & FOUND DEPT The bluesy sultry Kim Taylor's Lost and Found is used for REVLON's national Walk/Run campaign commercial.
CAPITAL C Low-Fi's flowing acoustic-based Where You Are gets heard on Showtime's THE BIG C.
SCIENCE DISCOVERY Thomas Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science gets a sing-along on the Syfi channel's EUREKA.
NICELY CAPITALIZED The Caribbean flavored So Nice by Forest Sun brightens up THE BIG C.
MORNING DRIVE Shayna Zaid and The Catch's Morning Sun is featured in FORD EDGE's latest commercial campaign.
FLYING HIGH Seattle's Downpilot is heard on ONE TREE HILL with In The Morning.
HOLIDAY FARE The incredibly adorable duo Little and Ashley offer up a new track in November for AMAZON KINDLE's holiday campaign with Winter Night.
A LITTLE TENDERNESS Sex and Reverb's sweet You Can Do What You Want and Carrie Akre's blusey Grey gets used in NBC's MERCY.
STORMING THE ABC's hit show CASTLE uses Fever Burning by Alyx.
KINDLICIOUS! The poppy/sweet stylings of Little and Ashley are used once again for the AMAZON KINDLE commercials featuring Stole My Heart and Come On Let's Go. And more to come!
MAJOR NOT MINOR Trigger's Irish G Major is heard on NBC's MERCY.
STATESIDE The ever-popular pop-rockers Derby have their song Michigan used on THE GHOST WHISPERER.
HOT HOT HOT Eject's slow rocking Fire kicks butt in the martial arts movie BEATDOWN.
Mercy Me Portland's pop rockers Derby's All Or Nothing gets heard on NBC's MERCY.
Boston Night The Elevator Drops' partying Party Song and The Boys All Went Home by The Gentlemen plays on NBC's MERCY.
Royalty ABC's CASTLE uses the nicely upbeat rocker Madly In Action by The Shys.
Can't Lose Trinity's smooth Fresha Than A Model plays it all out in the martial arts film INVINCIBLE.
Foliage ONE TREE HILL uses The Spies' jaunty pop with the track You've Got Some Nerve.
Unbreakable Kay Hanley's Cellars By Starlight is heard on ABC Family's MAKE IT OR BREAK IT.
Off the Shoulder Optic Noise teams up with Railer Ent, and The Real McKenzies get used for ABC's CASTLE for the band's song Chip.
Location, Location Where You Are by Low-Fi gets a play on CW's ONE TREE HILL.
AMAZING KINDLE! The bouncy, cute and super-talented Annie Little stars in and composed the song Fly Me Away for Kindlicious, AMAZON'S new commercial for Kindle.
RADIO ON ALTEC LANSING features cow punk Wilson Gil's Salty Water and Bay Area hip hop team MGS's My Life for its online break dancing promo.
CRASH AND BURN LA'S Eject is featured in the end credits for TV's CRASH.
SHHHHHH THE GHOST WHISPERER uses Meeting Of Important People's luscious track I Know Every Street.
A LITTLE MERCY The NBC nurse show MERCY uses the upbeat rocker Easy Now You're Gone by singer songwriter Guy Harrington.
SKELETON CREW Thomas Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science gets tagged to promote the new season of BONES on the Fox network.
CASTLE 1 The ever-might popsters Derby get heard on ABC's CASTLE with the sweet upbeat track Sunk A Few.
CASTLE 2 Alyx's cool dance grooving Fever Burning also gets picked for CASTLE.
AND COUNTING... UK's Lobster is easily amused by CASTLE's use of Easily Amused.
IT'S A DATE Our new client Martha Davis is used in the Sony Pictures release, CHLOE & KEITH'S WEDDING for her band The Motels's hit Only The Lonely.
FIRST IN CLASS Lifetime Network's ARMY WIVES uses Austin based Matt The Electrician's Valedictorian.
ANOTHER HIT VH1 features Thomas Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science in its Greatest One Hit Wonders release.
HIGH ON A HILL ABC'S CASTLE uses the lovely acoustic Red Balloon.
ANOTHER BANG Yet again, She Blinded Me With Science is heard on the CBS nerdy hit BIG BANG THEORY.
STONED AGAIN ABC's ELI STONE uses Kim Taylor's Let Me Down, Micah Wolf's Muse and Portland popsters The Dimes in a single episode.
TOUCHDOWN Ehren Ebbage's sweet flowing Land On You gets used in ELI STONE.
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE UK techno artist The Future is further archived into the SHE SPIES series DVD.
ARTISTIC LICENSE Optic Noise is music supervising NEW BROW: THE RISE OF UNDERGROUND ART, about, um, underground art.
X MARKS THE SPOT The pilot of CBS'S THE EX LIST uses a lot 'o stuff including Dave Calandra's Missing You, Derby's All Or Nothing, Actionslacks' Joan of Arc, Portland band Blue Skies For Black Hearts, Far From The Discos by The Bella Fayes, and two Local Division tracks.
ANOTHER ROLLING STONE Aussie singer songwriter Dave Calandra lands his track Another Love in an episode of ELI STONE on ABC.
NOBODY HATES THOMAS Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science gets play on EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS.
AGAIN, NOBODY HATES THOMAS She Blinded Me With Science gets more airtime on THE BIG BANG THEORY.
MILITARY STRATEGY I Feel Like A Fading Light by Kim Taylor gets used for ARMY WIVES.
LICENSING HURTS I Still Wish You Were Around by Blue Skies For Black Hearts and Music For Animals's If Looks Could Kill are used in the upcoming film LOVE HURTS.
MORE ON THE LIST Sex & Reverb gets heard on THE EX LIST with the track She Laughs When She Talks.
FLY LIKE AN EAGLE Magic Bullets plays AMERICAN EAGLE'S NAMU FEST in Pittsburgh courtesy of HUM and Optic Noise. They play with Bob Dylan, The Racounteurs, The Black Keys and Gnarls Barkley, among others. Thanks HUM!
UP ALL NIGHT Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science makes another appearance on LATE NIGHT WITH JAY LENO.
THE REAL THING Derby lands a national COKE commercial with This Conversation for the company's "Reach" campaign.
PREACHING TO THE CHOIR Furvis's Preachy gets heard on the ever-popular ARMY WIVES.
DRIVE TIME The Elevator Drops' Jules is used in TOYOTA's Sequoia online commercial video with a free download of the track.
LAB WORK She Blinded Me With Science is used in the film trailer for the animated IGOR feature, starring John Cleese, Eddie Izzard and John Cusack among a host of others.
NIGHT AND DAY Sex and Reverb's rolling pop Lord What Have I Done is used in the made-for-TV movie classic remake of KNIGHT RIDER.
GROWING ON TREES MEN IN TREES continues its run with Optic Noise, using Carrie Akre's bluesy Grey, The Bella Faye's jangly Far From The Discos, Derby's Streetlight and Sunk A Few, Wanted from Ken Michaels, more Sex and Reverbwith In A Wider Sense Lost and Lael Alderman's acoustic Somedays You Have To Wonder.
ALPHA SONG KYLE XY uses The Bella Fayes's Far From The Discos.
TAKING FLIGHT New Orleans artist R Scully gets Little Miss used for the Kate Beckinsale/Forest Whitaker film WINGED CREATURES, along with I Know by Cabinessence and the Sex Pistols-like rocker Resistance from The Elevator Drops.
LEGAL RECOGNITION The Spies's Sly Girl and This Episode's Move On is used in ABC's ELI STONE, along with Valedictorian by Matt The Electrician and Portland band Protest Hill's Sometimes.
Tree Action Men In Trees uses power pop Derby's All Or Nothing and If Ever There's A Reason, along with Sweden's Brainpool (Cottage Cheese) and New Orleans' Morning 40 Federation's White Powder, all in a single episode.
Another Late Night Thomas Dolby's She Blinded Me With Science stays up late for Conan O'Brien.
And Counting CBS's Numbers uses Sex and Reverb's Radiation and Sad Susie from Portland's The Bella Fayes.
HARD CORE Derby's All Or Nothing gets an airing on the ABC series Eli Stone.
More Tree Action Sex and Reverb lends its pop acoustic track Coroner to Men In Trees.
Down On The Bayou New Orleans artist Alex McMurray gets heard on Fox's K-Ville with his swampy/bluesy Day After Mardi Gras Day.
B.C. After A.D. Even cavemen are advanced enough for Upside Down's Blackeye Liner, for the commercial turned TV show Cavemen.
LOOPED IN The Go Sheilas' pop/punky Simple Plan is heard on this season's The Loop
GIMME GIMME Discovery Channel uses Me First and the Gimme Gimme's punked up version of I'll Be There in its promo series.
LATE AT NIGHT Late Night With Jay Leno uses Thomas Dolby's very scientific classic She Blinded Me With Science.
LET'S GO FOR A DRIVE Sex and Reverb drives another one home with Another Ending Has Begun for the Fox series Drive.
MORE NOTES Ken Michael's La La and Swedish rockers Brainpool's Junk gets an airing on ABC's Notes From the Underbelly.
NOTES FROM US: ABC'S "Notes From The Underbelly" uses Derby's "Sunk A Few" and poppy punk The Go Sheila's "Simple Plan".
DIRT ON DIRT: UK electronica artist LeMans track "All I Need From You" was used in the premier of F/X series Dirt.
SWEDISH JUNK: One Tree Hill featured "Junk" from Swedish alt popsters Brainpool.
WHAT ABOUT... : Sex & Reverb's "Coroner" and The Still Revival's "Neither Do I" is used in the ABC series What About Brian.
CAREFUL PLACEMENT: Alexis Harte's quirky "Wiggle Room" and the Bella Fayes ode to classic romance "Love" is featured in the independent motion picture Careless.
BUSTING ABROAD: Thomas Dolby's classic hit "She Blinded Me With Science" is used for Discovery Channel's Mythbusters television promo campaign for the UK after its successful use in the US.
BLOCKED IN: N Network series The Block uses Sex & Reverb's poppy romantic track "In A Sense Lost".
LOOPY ONLINE: Fox's The Loop makes use of Fernando's "Everybody Knows", The Divorce's "Call The Police", Ben Arnold's "Lead Me On" and more Optic Noise artists for the series internet release.
WE'RE NUMBER SEVENTY-SOMETHING!: "She Blinded Me With Science" is featured in VH1's Greatest Hits of the Eighties.
MISSION POSSIBLE Thomas Dolby and JJ Abrams teamed up to compose a danceable, funky piece for JJ's own Mission Impossible 3.
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE: The Effects lend their efforts to the W/B's Everwood, with their track high energy rocker "She's Blinded".
DEEP THOUGHTS: Mobb Deep's "Got It Twisted" is featured in 50 Cent's UK Concert online release.
...AND COUNTING: Moco's rocking, stylized track "Moco Loco" is heard in the season finale of the hit CBS show Numb3rs.
COME TOGETHER Matt Brown's retro-esque "Let It Ride" was used in the TV series Reunion.
WAKE UP: W/B's Everwood used garage rockers The Figg's "I Was Dreaming" to rock out a scene.
DO WE REALLY WANT TO SAY?: Playboy Channel's series Foursome featured ON's gritty Crud, including tracks "Reality", "Devil At The Wheel", "All Used Up" and "La Dee Da".
KICK IT OUT: "I Brought Kicks" by The Figgs was also used in Foursome, as was Karmacoda's downtempo remix of "Firefly".
BLINDED BY SHOPPING Kohl's Department Stores uses "She Blinded Me With Science" in their new campaign, complete with a special hip hop mash version of the hit song.
ALWAYS OK: Divit's new pop rock track "I'll Be OK" was used in the W/B's Jack & Bobby.
EVER ENOUGH: Techo popster Garvy J contributes his incredibly infectious "All I Need" for the ever-popular Everwood.
DIVE OF A LIFETIME: Wake's dreamy Coldplay-esque "When Can I See You Again" is used in the Lifetime movie Dive From Clausen's Pier starring Michelle Trachtenberg and Will Estes.
DRIVE TIME: Rockers Crud contribute "Devil At The Wheel" for the trailer of the just released film Supercross.
ON GOES ON A DATE OpTic NoISe tracks are featured throughout the new Nickelodeon/The Noggin series "Best Friend's Date". Artists include Eleventeen's pop/punk, The Figg's raw and poppy sounds, pop rockers The Bella Fayes, Divit and the clever and catchy Royal 7, among many others of our catalog.
MORE JACK & BOBBY: Sex & Reverb's heartbreaking "Friend" and jangly pop "I Stood With the Shadow People" join Alexis Harte's eloquent "Yellow Shoes" for the W/B series.
EVER MORE FOR EVERWOOD: Our tracks include The Finger's bouncy pop "Know When You Know" and The Bella Fayes's just as bouncy "I Do Believe".
WE JUST GAVE AWAY THE ANSWER: Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" is included in the wildly successful Trivial Pursuit release "Pop Culture" 2.0 DVD game. The track is a new recording/remix of his original 1983 hit.
HIT BUSTING: "She Blinded Me With Science" gets a makeover for Discovery Channel's MYTHBUSTERS as Dolby puts a fresh musical spin on this track for the series promo.
WALKING ON AIR: Bongo Beat Records provided the original recording of Katrina & The Waves' "Walking On Sunshine" for the new HILLARY DUFF feature film "RAISE YOUR VOICE".
TRU DIVIT: Divit tracks find their way into TRU CALLING'S DVD release with "William" and "So Very Ordinary".
CRAZY FOR LOCO: ABC's LIFE AS WE KNOW IT used "Moco Loco" from UK rockers Moco for a delectable scene.
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Our favorite W/B series uses: Ing "Springfield Avenue", Sex Slaves "Waiting", The Bella Fayes "The Girl Most Likely", Slowreader "Falling on the World", Superdrag "Baby's Waiting", Royal 7 "Nothing Ever Happens".MAKING WAVES: Fox's NORTHSHORE uses some of our personal faves including Pop/rocker The Stereo's "Don't Say Uncle", Fall Out Boy's "Grand Theft Autumn" and The Bella Faye's bouncy "The Girl Most Likely"
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH: THE MOUNTAIN uses Sex & Reverb's unique jangly pop track "Dirty Lullaby"
ING GETS LARGE WITH SMALLVILLE: Ing's AM radio inspired "Better Don't Do", with its blend of power pop rock, makes it into Smallville. Hum along.
PUNK HYPOTHESIS: Nitro Records' TSOL is included in the soon-to-be released motion picture Window Theory with their track "Being In Love".
BUT DID THEY BUY THE ALBUM? Thomas Dolby booms again with the inclusion of "She Blinded Me With Science" in A&E's BOOMER NATION television documentary that documents, you guessed it, the Baby Boomer Generation.
HELLO AGAIN Patrick Conway's country-tinged "Brave Goodbye" makes it into another season of the Roswell 3 DVD release.
WONDERFULLY PLEASED The Pleased get their underground guitar licks a chance to be heard in the un-aired but soon to be released episode of Wonderfalls with their track "New Motivation".
CRIME TIME: The Jerry Cantrell penned Alice In Chains tracks "Would" and "Them Bones" are included in the new release of TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF LA video game.
BADA BING: H2S04's "Come On" finds its way into THE SOPRANOS Season Five, and in turn, we now know, without the benefit of subscribing to HBO, that Tony and Adriana will be reconciling their friendship in episode 5. Um...temporarily.
HELLBENT...FOR LEATHER Indie feature is host to numerous OpTic NoISe tracks including the sweet and silly pop/punk of Pansy Division ("First Betrayal"), The Pleased's "About Me", Sex and Reverb's grooving "Surrender", and Karmacoda's "Free". The Elevator Drops contribute their awesome techno pop track "Car".
TWISTED SCIENCE Platinum selling hip hop artist Mobb Deep is sampling Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" in his upcoming single "Got It Twisted".
TARGET The Thomas Dolby penned "New Toy", performed by Lene Lovich, was used for TARGET STORE's holiday commercial nationwide.
COMIC BOOK: THE MOVIE Nerfherder's silly and frenzied "Welcome To My World" can be heard in the Miramax film.
THE OSBOURNES Nerf's "Welcome To My World" was also used in the just released DVD, along with Wake's "Mind Is Yours", Joel Evan's swanky Sinatra-esque "Love Is The Name Of The Game" and Yellow 5's rocking "Downslide". Also used are Alkaline Trio's "1000 Stories" and "Blue In The Face".
ROSWELL The season two series of DVD's are now in stores and include a flurry of ON tracks: Sex and Reverb's "Here She Comes Now", Patrick Conway's bittersweet "Brave Goodbye", Nero track "This Isn't Time", Wake's "Mind Is Yours" and the Zeromind rocker "Sick Inside". The first season includes "Some Other Place" and "Hot Wheels A Go-Go" by Rubbersidedown, "Darkest Hour" by Glen Phillips and the awesome and catchy "Let's Go For A Ride" by Eleventeen.
THE CHALLENGE Hear Bracket's "No Brainer", Nitro Records' Lost City Angels "First Things First" and Nerfherder's "For You" in the Olsen Twins just released feature length movie.