Pandora Radio

Pandora Radio is a music streaming service created in 2000 by Will Glaser, Tom Kraft, and Tim Westergren, founded by the Music Genome Project. In 2017, Pandora collaborated with Gorillaz to create a playlist called the "Sounds Like Gorillaz", recommending to listeners music similar to Gorillaz. The playlist features artists such as Daft Punk, Radiohead, Phantogram, Aphex Twin and various others. This playlist was promoted with a live-action/animation hybrid advertisement featuring 2-D, Murdoc, Russel Hobbs and Noodle racing each other.

'Sounds Like Gorillaz' Playlist
On April 18th, 2017, it was announced that Gorillaz and Pandora had partnered up to create a "Sounds Like You" playlist for Gorillaz. "Sounds Like Gorillaz" is a playlist of music from bands and musical artists recommended to listeners who are looking for music with a sound similar to that of Gorillaz. The "Sounds Like Gorillaz" playlist features songs from a wide selection of artists including Massive Attack, Pretty Lights, Air, LCD Soundsystem and many others.

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The advertisement for the 'Sounds Like Gorillaz' Pandora playlist featured an animation of 2-D, Murdoc, Russel and Noodle racing each other. After Murdoc enters the Stylo car, he grabs his iPod and begins to play "Deceptacon" by Le Tigre before the starter initiates the race. In the end, Murdoc wins first place, 2-D comes in at second, Noodle comes in third, and Russel comes in at last place, much to his dissatisfaction. At the end of the advertisement a brief audio clip of the song Ascension is played.

Trivia

 * On Murdoc’s iPod are artists such as Danny Brown, The Decemberists, The Dead Weather, and Le Tigre.
 * Noodle’s cat mask from Phase 3 can be seen on the window of her vehicle.