Music, culture, and the inside scoop from Cesar Menendez,
a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project.

November 02, 2007

Rogue Wave: November Ignition Artist

Rogue Wave is set to be Zune’s Ignition artist for the month of November in addition to being featured in the new Zune TV spots that debuted last night.

Zune Marketplace will feature the promotional download for the song “Lake Michigan,” - the song used in both the TV spot and the ZuneJourney site - a track-by-track breakdown and guest playlist from the band, and the exclusive demo/alternate version of Lake Michigan. In addition, there will be an exclusive live video performance of the song streamed on Xbox Live and MSN.com.

The band’s Brushfire Records debut Asleep at Heaven’s Gate was produced by Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Sleater Kinney, Elvis Costello) with Zach Rogue and recorded in Forestville, California.

 |  Friday, November 02, 2007 12:50 PM  |  8 Comments

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Roy

I am totally digging Rogue Wave!!  I checked out their website after watching the new Zune commercial to see about their other music.  I love "Lake Michigan" from the commerical, but I was also pumped to learn that they sing "Eyes", which appeared on a couple episodes of NBC's "Heroes" (namely the first episode during the solar eclipse montage).  I've had that song stuck in my head off & on for awhile & finally know who sings it!!

Definitely check out Rogue Wave's stuff!!

Steeeve

Lake Michigan - Great song, love it!!!

Espiox

Pretty cool man.

Hey, Cesar. Not sure if this has been addressed before, but the Zune Social website says that signups are only for 21s and over. Is this true, and if so, why?

Michael

Yep, Rogue Wave is the same band that made the song "Eyes".

I was watching the Heroes marathon on G4, and I saw the show ("Collision"), where the song was playing, and I was pretty awed by it. I saw the episode before, and I was really interested in the song, that I looked up on TV.com to see what the song was.

Rogue Wave makes awesome music. It's great to see them as the Zune Ignition Artist. "Lake Michigan" is awesome as well.

brutha-man

nice song :)

Kevin

In August 2004, Rogue Wave's 'Kicking the Heart Out' was the free iTunes song of the week. Nice to see them getting more recognition.

Rex

Rogue Wave's song "LAKE MICHIGAN" is perfect for the ZUNE ad. It also plays well in the cool zunejourney.net video "TRIP" on the ZUNE website. Very 60's flower power.

Adam

I caught a Rogue Rave show in L.A. and they are great live too. I didn't know much about them before but I'm a fan now. They played that song "Eyes" as their encore and the crowd loved it. Check out their song "Chicago x 12" if you have'nt yet - very cool!

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