Matthew Weiner’s commitment to authenticity is second to none. His Mad Men series is a televised portal back in time, a weekly peek into 1960s Manhattan, the advertising industry, and all it ...

It's not uncommon for a band's music to be used in a TV ad, and while a few Rolling Stones tracks have been used for ads over the years, did you know the band actually wrote an original jingle for ...

Shortly after the Rolling Stones formed in 1962 and released their debut single, a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Come On” a year later, the band was commissioned to come up with a jingle for a popular ...

Once again, "Mad Men" storylines include some ripped-from-yesterday's-headlines elements: Don Draper's mention in Sunday's episode that the Rolling Stones did a cereal commercial is true. The Stones ...

Snap, crackle, rock. Did everyone know this but me? Apparently, back in 1963 or thereabouts, The Rolling Stones composed and recorded a Rice Krispies commercial for British television. I had never ...

The music business, even for the most ardently anti-capitalist bands, is a tension between pure art and the crassest of commercial exploitation. Often, even groups that don't get derided for "selling ...