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O+ Festival supports the health of underinsured artists and musicians in the Hudson Valley and beyond through their annual festival, where they exchange art-making and performances for health and wellness services: the art of medicine for the medicine of art. Our co-founder Kate Urcioli will be joining the festival’s roundtable discussion on Sync with esteemed colleagues Lauriana Zuluaga and Jessica Gramuglia. Check out the organization’s website and all the great music, art and wellness coming up this weekend.

HD UK is dropping in to create the soundtrack for Samsung’s collaboration with Skateboard GB. We love this vibrant work from Iris Worldwide featuring a team of pro skaters championing the new Galaxy Z Flip5. Original music by Heavy Duty London.

Heavy Duty continues to raid the Mattel toy box! The new brand campaign for Hot Wheels cinematically depicts how there are lessons to be learned from failure, and play can be a perfect safe space for this introduction. We can’t wait to see what’s to come from the Hot Wheels brand as they gear up to bring the beloved toys to a new generation of racers and dare-devils! Thank you to SMUGGLER and BBH USA for bringing us along for the ride. Original score by Heavy Duty’s Sean Fitzgerald.

JEEP x JETER, iconic! New Work, and a great example of leaning into the lyrics of an existing song to uplift the story. It was of course very fun to cover Roy Orbison’s “I Drove All Night”.

She’s baaack! Congrats (once again!) to Heavy Duty Projects Creative Director Dan Nigro on another massive achievement with Olivia Rodrigo and her album ‘Guts’. Dan co-wrote and produced the much-anticipated follow-up to Olivia’s debut album ‘Sour’ (…which he also co-wrote and produced!).

The Hustle breaks custom music + sound down to brass tacks with Heavy Duty’s co-founder Kate Urcioli. 

Amoeba Music wants to know: what’s in HD’s Amanda Yamate’s bag! Joined by co-composer Este Haim and director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, the trio take a deep dive into the music that shaped them, and celebrate their latest release Do Revenge. (currently the #1 Film on Netflix!!).