Eagles of Death Soccer

A few weeks ago, Nike released a new soccer commercial in Europe with the ad campaign “Take it to the Next Level.” As someone who casually follows the Barclays Premiership League and the UEFA Champions League, I found the commercial to be pretty bad-ass. The two minute commercial is a virtual who’s who in European soccer with cameos from Wayne Rooney, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo and a bunch of other people that I, the casual fan, didn’t recognize. Even if you think soccer is “boring” or “gay” this commercial does a great job of making the game pretty exciting. It also features the song “Don’t Speak (I Came to Make a Bang) by The Eagles of Death Metal, which is probably my favorite band of the last week. And oh yeah, the whole thing was directed by Guy Ritchie. I think this commercial alone could do more for soccer in the States than Becks ever will.

OMFG! New Sloan Album!

Sloan, aka the best Canadian band of all time, is releasing a new album this summer on June 10th entitled Parallel Play. Stereogum has the first single on their website. You can also stream the entire record on the band’s record label’s website, Yep Roc.


Stream the entire record here