So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

rectified btw

http://twitter.com/Buzza/status/14276861

gj buzza

lol

In case you’re wondering if they are or aren’t a couple, they are. They live together in southern Sonoma County (they won’t say where.) They make their videos using Pro Tools and Final Cut in their garage. Hyundai came to their garage for the Christmas commercial spots. It’s fairly certain that their music flies off Myspace at high bitrates; no need for shelves.

With their recent success, they’ve been able to quit their days jobs and devote full time to music. They had great jobs, too. Conte was a composer for Google’s in-house corporate videos. Nataly Dawn was a hotel marketer.

For their recent New Year’s Eve show in San Francisco, they had to hire three backing musicians. It seems like they’d rather be making videos and recording. Who can blame them. Said Conte, “We have a very opposite business model of most musicians. Most bands and musicians don’t make money on recordings, and they only make money on live shows. We are precisely the opposite. We lose money on live shows and make our living on recordings.”

"We're also awful people," added Dawn before peeling the head off a squirming kitten and sloppily guzzling blood from its tiny neckhole.

With their recent success, they’ve been able to quit their days jobs and devote full time to music. They had great jobs, too

^^take it to the braggin thread imo

We lose money on live shows and make our living on recordings.”

how do you lose money on live shows??

PLANT A CHURCH HARVEST A NATION DRINK THE BLOOD OF KITTENS

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Lose money on live shows = club owners kill them with hammers every time they walk in to set up

I kind of want to e-mail them a link to this thread just to see what happens.

So these two are basically a cynical version of The Bird & The Bee, right? But without the songwriting abilities?

Like Captain and Tennille with actual muskrats

like a couple fucks in a car comercial

Her mugging for the camera is so gross

like a couple fucks in a car comercial

would watch this version of the commercial

wd prefer that to pamplemousse

if the Hyundai's a rockin'...

id b friends w/ these dudes

SB

Only if you become friends w/ them long enough to talk them out of any sort of music career and that they should go back to their really amazing day jobs they gave up to annoy the shit out of us.

^^^ this

Convince them Corte Madera really needs their baristas back.

how do you lose money on live shows??

― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:10 PM Bookmark

Presumably the backup musicians they hired plus transport plus gear plus maybe their own soundman or whatever else cost more than they make on the show.

knitted animals on stage

cupcakes for the whole audience

security

lols

hahah hurting

I meant lols at ice cr?m, not that they paid ringers to lol at their shows, although I would believe that too

haha yeah hurting yr prolly right...god that sucks for them..if only there was some other way to play shows...huh, just a crazy dream i had

I've lost money on shows, but when I say "lost money" I mean like $5-10 because we were playing somewhere that took a lot of gas to get to and then not many people showed up.

"We're not like popular musicians, we don't care about tacky things like money and 'costs of things'."

theez kids dont seem any more egregious than like most of ilx or w/e theyre just on tv or youtube wearing sweaters eyefucking the camera who cares they probably at least bring wine when u ask them over for dinner hear abt there cats and shit idk

lamp is quite right

do yall never think of some comment of faux-hyperbolic rage at a cultural product or signifier that is not to your liking and then think better of it?

nope

cf: innocuous things that make you irrationally angry

ilx's engine is actually a hybrid powered by a combination of faux-hyperbolic rage and challops "braking" such as your post (xpost)

boredom. don't forget boredom.

and lols

http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/01/03/annoying-youtube-indie-fuxxorscar-shills-also-evangelical-christians

I hope this brings on the tweemageddon where all bearded hipsters and frumpy knitwear obsessed girls are called upon and transported to a heaven filled with accordion lessons and ironic Americana.

remember, the guys just have beards but the girls are "frumpy"

damn, buzza blew this case wide open. bravo!

ironic that ilx's own thread revivalist would get the scoop on this couple being revivalists

ilx's engine is actually a hybrid powered by a combination of faux-hyperbolic rage and challops "braking" such as your post

okay this has to be made into a board description somehow

Buzza's People

do yall never think of some comment of faux-hyperbolic rage at a cultural product or signifier that is not to your liking and then think better of it?

― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:59 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not able to parse this

translation: do you ever hate fun

i just wonder if people ever essay some scornful thought/reply to these sort of threads, and then think...'oh forget it' and go and do something more enlightened