Originally Posted by Mindgames
'Goth' bands pop up all over the place on incidentals and credit background music (BGM), especially those who had a new album release planned when the series first piloted and one of the pro-TV record labels pushing them. It's a standard deal for the studios to license tracks at very low fees in return for the 'airtime', and to be blunt most TV producers haven't a clue what musical genre fits what show. Supernatural is "Southern Gothic" and so gets an AIC track, but they could've used Marilyn, Evanescence or at a push even Nickelback as they're all known for being BGM whores. What they won't do is play a good new band that asks for a fair royalty rate.