Category: Music

Interview: Sunny Levine and Mike Burakoff

You might think "animated hip-hop comedy music videos for kids" isn’t a thing. It is. In the age of YouTube, anything you can think of is already a thing. But this week saw the premiere of the first video to mix slick animation, psychedelic imagery and an original cast of characters with thumping beats and funny lyrics, sharply tuned to adult sensibilities but made for kids. And now THAT is a thing. King Douglas, playing now on SpindoTV (a joint-venture between Spinmaster Toys and Mondo Media), tells the story of a charming but over-indulged boy whose birthday party spirals out of control when his father forgets how to say…

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Making ourselves heard on BBC World Service

If you're a regular listener of the BBC World Service... you're probably too smart to be wasting intellect reading this. If for some reason you find yourself compelled to continue reading, you'll be pleased to learn that MightyPants Creative Kahuna Tony Grillo received a shout out on the BBC World Business Report last night. Take 90 seconds to click the image below and sample our (now world-famous) parody on the US Economic Crisis, which opens a segment on Japan's Central Bank. If you're in a hurry, skip ahead to the 1:10 mark:   After hearing this piece, you may be under the impression that Tony…

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Flinch at 35,000 feet

If you find yourself on a Virgin America flight in the near future, you may be treated to a little high-altitude hardcore courtesy of the Flinch Studio Ministry of Music. As part of their Syndication Feed deal with online music video giant VEVO, the sexy airline will be piping original music produced by Tony and resident Composer Will Jenkins for this spot we delivered back in October: Virgin America, or "Vamerica" as I like to call them, will be weaving the thumping tune into VEVO's program stream as part of the branding for their in-flight video music content. As we here at Flinch continue to…

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Nirvana – rebooted

Here's the Nirvana toon we created back in 2005: Despite being done out of love, to this day, we receive a great deal of flak for this one.

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