Songs from The In Between were featured on MTV's The Real World and Laguna Beach, Fox's Boston Public, HBO's Sex and the City and also One Tree Hill.
[2] In the spring of 2005, Hawkins relocated to Los Angeles and released his first solo record, Pillows and Records, featuring fellow musicians Chuck Prophet, Jim Bogios of Counting Crows, Tom Ayers of Persephone's Bees, Brett Simon of Fiona Apple and Highwater Rising's Jason Borger and JJ Wiesler.
In May 2011, The Quiet Kind was featured as the Artist of the Week on ABC Television's music lounge and their track, "In Front of You", was the closing song for the Grey's Anatomy seventh season finale.
[5] Later that year, Hawken's song "The Great Escape" from the album The Sleep of Trees was featured a commercial for American Public University, and SandRidge Energy.
[6] In a recent interview, long time collaborator and friend Chuck Prophet announced that he and Aidan are getting ready to unleash their long-in-the-works project The Palace Steps in the Fall of 2013.