Having already seen their music appear in Gossip Girl, Anthem, NYLON, GOOD, AOL and Yahoo! Music, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour [Official Site, Myspace] now have a song on the most recent Apple iTouch commercial with the head-bopping, toe tapping, fun-inducing “Around the Bend”.
Come check out an exclusive remix “after the jump”
“The Sun Ain’t Shining No More” (Thomas Gold Remix) [mp3]
Formed less than a year ago, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is heading for fame at a speed even they didn’t expect. The band, led by Lars Iversen and Mette Lindberg, has barely begun to share their music with anyone outside of their hometown of Copenhagen, and yet their first UK single, “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More”, is already tickling the ears of delighted radio programmers across the pond. Another track, “The Golden Age,” has mysteriously popped up on the playlist for “Passport Approved,” a syndicated radio show broadcasting weekly on Indie 103.1 (Los Angles), WXPN and other “tastemaker” stations around the country. If that weren’t enough, their song “Around the Bend” is currently being featured in ads for the new iPod Touch, and is available now on iTunes.
Stylistically The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is hard to pin down, except to say that they throw one hell of a party – which may be why those music-loving folks at Apple chose them to help sell what’s being touted as “the funnest iPod ever.” Sun-drenched pop melodies collide with Technicolor dreams, anchored by the band’s shared love of the classic soul stylings of Marvin, Stevie and Sly that can be heard in the horns snaking through “Around The Bend” as well as the slinky “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More”, for which they have made a spectacular video. TAGT will release a digital EP, Around the Bend, on October 28, followed by debut full-length album in early 2009.
Although Mette and Lars are the core of The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, the band grows to a six-piece live, including trumpet and sax players, clavinet sounds, a drummer and a guitarist.
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Around the Bend is probably the most infectious song I’ve heard all year. It’s sonic Ebola.