♪ Jill Avilez & Copernicus Rex @ The Good Hurt! Tonight!

This is my really REALLY good friend Jill's band and my friend Jay's band. Go and see both of them. They're amazing performers but even greater musicians! Come see the funkiest bunch of cats this side of the universe! Do it, and you will get FUNKED. 

Musicians: Jill Avilez, Leon LeDoux, Steve Horist, Tat Yang Koh, Ben Jindra, Jay Rubottom

Flyer posted by Jill Avilez

Check out the Jill Avilez Band here!!! 

Follow Jill Avilez on Twitta! @JazzMistress

Check out Copernicus Rex here!

Rock! xo

Pollyn ♪

Photo by Pollyn's Myspace

Pollyn is a New Wave/Electronica/Down-Tempo band from Los Angeles, with 3 members, Genevieve, Anthony, and Adam. The first thing I thought of when introduced to their music is that they have that Zero 7 feel but are uniquely their own female-driven-discotheque-soul-electronica sound making machine. Excuse me for the long genre description, the point of me writing this is that they have a performance on LA's MOST LEGIT radio station 89.9 FM KCRW. They will be on  "Morning Becomes Eclectic", Friday September 11th at 11:15 am! You can catch them streaming live with DJ music master Jason Bentley on the MBE website. Hopefully we'll get to hear some crazy remixes in their set! I'm looking forward to streaming this set often...and probably whilst doing Nightimey things.


If you can't listen to them on Sept. 11th or make it to any of their shows you can probably afford their first full-length album "This Little Night" (Released February 2009). Listen to it all! They even have an official remix for the Gorillaz "D.A.R.E" and Buffalo Daughter's "Socks, Drugs & Rock n' Roll". Catch up on it!

Photo by Pollyn's Myspace

Upcoming Shows:
The Bootleg Theatre - September 11 - Los Angeles/Silverlake, CA
Adam's Ave Street Festival - September 27 - San Diego, CA


You can find more lovely music & info about Pollyn on their Myspace & Website.
Follow them on Twitta! @Pollyn_Band

♫ Showin' Love For Coconut Records

You may have heard of Jason Schwartzman from such gigs as playing Max Fischer in the film Rushmore, Ross in the tweaker feature Spun, and being a drummer for the band Phantom Planet. Although many focus on his ever changing range of artistic developments - dabbling in music and in film - Schwartzman is not a man to be taken lightly.

Coconut Records was created in 2006, and shortly thereafter the indie-secret-project full-of-awesome album "Nighttimin'" happened in 2007.

My favorites off of the "Nighttimin'" album (for now) are "It's Not You It's Me" (for it's catchiness), "Minding My Own Business" (because it has a funkier edge and a hint of the Beatles somewhere in there), "Nighttiming" (because it has an interesting upbeat jive to it that you wanna cruise all over LA with), "Summer Day" (it reminded me of Elliott Smith in a good way), and "West Coast" (to represent the WEST! and because the song reminds me of last Summer and of a bittersweet love returning and then leaving again). Wow, I actually like most of the CD - that's how you know I like a band. When it sounds like Summer all the time.

In January 2009 the album "Davy" came out sounding more acoustic influenced than jivey like the first album. I liked "Any Fun" (because of the cool patterns on the drums and the presence of the piano keys), "Drummer" (it's like an ode to his life as a drummer boy for band P.P. and it's catchy), "I Am Young" (it's bittersweet and sounds like it could be at the end of a movie, or when a man realizes his vulnerability), "Microphone" (this too reminded me of the late great Elliott Smith ♥).

I give Coconut Records 10 music notes out of 11 possible music notes. Because I have been listening to CR since about the same time it came out, they are a favorite I don't think I will be forgetting about anytime soon. Listen and give your support for real artists like Schwartzman! Schwartzman for Prez!

Official Coconut Records Website!!!

Follow them on Twitta! @CoconutRecords

Photo from Coconut Records Last.fm page.