Friday, September 11, 2009

Celebrating Crapvertising!

Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?
Finally, an awards show celebrating the worst in advertising. Their press release says it all:
"Ever see advertising that's so horrendous, you wish you could somehow get back at whoever made it by burning down their house and nominating them for an award of some sort for bad advertising?"
Check it out at thetracyawards.com/crap/

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

RHD Track on New Guitar Hero

Coupe's favorite sons, Rose Hill Drive, have landed a spot in the new Guitar Hero game alongside tracks from Nirvana, The Stones, The White Stripes and some other heavy hitters.
The song "Sneak Out" was recorded, mixed and produced here at Coupe. Check out the video, and the writeup in the Daily Camera here. Watch carefully for a familiar face in the video. You know, besides the band.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

"Solved" for Discovery Channel

Our friends at Impossible did a bang up job with the visuals, while we had a great time putting together the music, VO and effects for this promo:

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Gold Medals = Gold Record?

We'll see! Olympic and X Games Snowboarding medalist JJ Thomas and his collaborator Jeff Cormack wrapped up mixing here at Coupe just last week, and today released their debut EP under the name MileHi. Check out the writeup on ESPN here, and listen to the tunes on milehisound.com

Photo: JJ with Shaun White and Keir Dillon at the X Games.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Naudio Spinning in NYC

Our own Chris McNaughton AKA Naudio returns home to NYC this weekend to DJ at Brooklyn's legendary Bunker. Joining him will be a lineup of international heavy-hitter DJs that will be keeping the party going all night long.
We hate to be without him, but we're glad he's taking a week off to recuperate. Odds are he'll need it.

All the details at: beyondbooking.com/thebunker

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Solid.

Here's how you know your studio is well built:
There is serious heavy demolition going on next door, and it's still absolutely silent inside the studio.
Until you open the door. Then it sounds like World War III. It's like that scene in Ace Ventura, where he yells and opens and closes the balcony door: