Ad deals keep NYC band afloat

“People’s opinions about selling out seem to have changed over the years,” according to Jack White, who may or may not be writing a jingle for Coca-Cola. (That particular news thread has gone dead quiet in the past few weeks.) But here’s a band that seems utterly unconflicted about licensing its music for commercials: The Mooney Suzuki. The New York-based group spent several months without a label to call home, and in that time, were it not for the money generated by such deals, “the band would have had to break up,” their manager, Lisa Barbaris, tells Billboard.