Friday, June 15, 2012

Pitchfork Announces Adult Swim and Kia Motors 3rd Installment of Singles Program



Adult Swim and Kia Motors America (KMA) have partnered together once again to bring music fans some hot new jamz (we use jamz unicronically!) for the summer season, in the third consecutive - and biggest and bestest - free downloadable music program to date. The 2012 Adult Swim Singles Program sponsored by the award-winning Kia Soul urban passenger vehicle will kick off on June 18 and will include a wide range of all new free music from a diverse lineup of respected artists. This year's program has been expanded to include 12 consecutive weeks (that's all summer!) with a new exclusive track debuting every Monday. The 2012 Adult Swim Singles Program will be featured at AdultSwim.com/singles from June 18 - September 9 and will include all-new, never-before-released tracks from these featured artists: 

Week 1 (June 18) - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Week 2 (June 25) - The Hives 
Week 3 (July 2) - Wye Oak 
Week 4 (July 9) - Absu 
Week 5 (July 16) - The Field 
Week 6 (July 23) - Flying Lotus
Week 7 (July 30) - Gauntlet Hair
Week 8 (August 6) - Wavves
Week 9 (August 13) - Com Truise 
Week 10 (August 20) - Yamantaka//Sonic Titan 
Week 11 (August 27) - Elite Gymnastics 
Week 12 (September 3) - Artist To Be Announced

Along with all-new songs, three pieces of original video content will be featured on the Kia Soul-branded custom website, including exclusive interviews from The Hives and Flying Lotus, as well as a music video for Wavves, all produced by Adult Swim. 

"Since the launch of the Soul in 2009 music from many different genres and time periods has played an important role in many of our marketing activities and has helped to raise our profile and make Kia one of the fastest-growing car companies in the U.S.," said Michael Sprague, vice president, marketing & communications, KMA. "Partnering with Adult Swim for the third year was a natural fit for us and helps Kia engage with music fans who are young and young-at-heart in yet another fun and appealing way." 

"We're really excited to once again be partnering with Kia Motors for year three of our singles program," said Jason DeMarco, vice president of strategic marketing and promotions for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. "This year we took a big step and decided to have an entire summer of free music - 12 straight weeks of free music from some of our favorite artists! Come back every week for new free music, and hopefully you'll love your summer as much as we do!" 

In addition to the 12 sponsored weeks of music, Adult Swim will offer fans a bonus track and corresponding exclusive interview from Death Grips that will complete the program during the week of September 10 and ease music lovers out of the summer season. For good measure, the network will also add an exclusive music video from Absu. The program will be promoted via on-air and online spots that drive to the website when the first track is live on June 18, and will continue throughout the duration of the program as new tracks and content is added. Specific track information from each artist will be announced in the coming weeks.


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