Ruby Rough in a commercial!

Who would have thought: Ruby drank coffee for the first time this New Year’s Day as the band recovered from a late-night fondue party, and now we’re in a coffee commercial! We just signed the licensing deal. Must’ve been that caffeine high…

NamYang Dairy has chosen “Easier” as the sound track to their newest commercial run for French Café, to air on South Korean television. 

Our Goodbye to Michael Jackson

The news hit me like a punch in the stomach. It’s the first time that the death of a person I never met, never even saw in person affected me so deeply. I don’t
know who he was or what he was really like, but I do know that Michael Jackson’s music haunted me from the first moment I heard it. The very first pop song I ever remember hearing was Thriller. It scared me to death, but I wanted to hear it again and
again anyway.

He is gone. There will never be another like him. But his music remains. To say
goodbye, I wanted to give something back. I know that it doesn’t come near to
what he did, but this was my expression of grief. I listened to his arrangement
of Billie Jean and sang every instrument from the percussion to the lead
vocals, putting an octave effect on the voices like the bass and bass drum that
were too deep for me to sing. Michael was an absolutely amazing arranger, and
doing this farewell made me even more intensely aware of our loss… It’s only an
echo of him, but as a singer, using my voice was the most personal way I could
honor his music.

He once said that he surrounded himself with art because he enjoyed what people created
with their hands, so I sketched some portraits. Swiss animated them, did the
dramaturgy for the video and mixed the track  with our friend Gordon Raphael to
make our tribute to Mr. Jackson’s work complete.

Michael,this is for you. Thank you for all you gave us.