Band of Skulls Score Big With Apple Commercial, ‘New Moon’ Soundtrack

by admin on August 16, 2009 · 0 comments

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Apple has a way of hopping on what’s new in music like the best blogs in the land — iPod commercials have featured soon-to-be-big acts like Chairlift and Feist while iTunes’ free single of the week has hyped the likes of Santigold, Passion Pit and Of Montreal.

But when Southhampton, UK trio Band of Skulls got the call that Apple wanted the group’s raucous guitar jam ‘I Know What I Am’ as its free single of the week, singer Russell Marsden was a bit confused — the song wasn’t even done. “We were still making the record. [Apple] wanted the song in two weeks time, but it wasn’t finished. They’d only heard a demo,” Marsden tells Spinner. “In life you have a choice — you have to either take the risk and go for it or not.”


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