Funny Business At Dualtone

Sarah Skates

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Dualtone Music Group is venturing into the world of comedy releases, a realm that has proved lucrative for other record companies such as Warner Bros.’s Jack Records. The label’s first comedy signing is Red State Update, made up of Jackie Broyles and Dunlap, who have created a niche acting as comedic political pundits during the current presidential campaign. Since CNN featured their video as part of the July 2007 YouTube Democratic debate, Red State Update has created comedy shorts for YouTube and MySpace and attracted thousands of subscribers. Total online views between YouTube and MySpace is over 10 million—and several of their videos have been featured on YouTube’s main comedy page, including the current sketch Hillary Wins, McCain Clinches, Huck Out.

Dualtone Pres. Scott Robinson said, “We’ve been aware of these guys for a while now and had been watching their videos on YouTube just like millions of other folks. When we reached out to them about recording an album, we had no idea if they’d be interested but we’re really excited they were! So we brought them to Nashville and put them in the studio and we’ve just been amazed with their talent...they’ve really been able to come up with some funny stuff.”

Dunlap added, "Joining forces with Dualtone not only enables me to meet my short term goals, like makin’ a hit album, scorin’ with Rihanna, and buying a castle, but it also gets us to our rightful place on the world stage. People listen to Important Recording Artists. That's how Fergie stopped the genocide in Darfur. And the timin’ is perfect, what with Jackie runnin’ for president and all. We can finally show off Jackie's brilliant political mind to a much larger audience, because nothing gets people into the voting booth like when a candidate has a new CD droppin.’"