Video: They Might Be Giants -- All Night Blowout -- Dunkin Donuts

The B List: TV Paid The Radio Stars

The B List: TV Paid The Radio Stars For this week's B List , I have compiled my Top 10 favorite television commercials that have benefited from the use of music by some of my favorite artists. Some of these spots were more controversial than others. In case you missed it, just last week Jack White issued a terse statement expressing disappointment that the Bond theme he wrote for Quantum of Solace debuted in a Coke commercial instead of the movie. And some of these have ruffled some fan feathers as well...but in [...]

Dunkin' Donuts Runs On They Might Be Giants

Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee Moving
TMBG has been consistently penning Munchkin-sized ditties for Dunkin' Donuts since 2006. The two most recent ads to feature the Giants -- "All Night Blowout" and "Moving" -- are again centered on large, milky iced-lattes that help you put a little caffeine in your soul during troubled, sleepy, etc. times. While these brief ditties may not have the hipster caché of Santogold, Julian, and Pharrell's epic Converse composition " My Drive Thru ," they do have one much larger thing going for them: They are brief commercial jingles, not a jingle disguised as a new song.