SONG OF THE DAY

“My Love” by The Bird & The Bee (Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future, Blue Note Records, 2009).

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future is the second album by the American indie/pop music duo The Bird and the Bee.

– The album debuted atop the Billboard Magazine Top Heatseekers chart on sales of over 5,000 copies.

– The Bird and the Bee is an indie/Synthpop/alternative musical duo from Los Angeles, consisting of musicians Inara George (“the bird”) and Greg Kurstin (“the bee”).

– Kurstin, a producer and keyboardist who has worked with Lily Allen, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Beck, Barenaked Ladies, The Flaming Lips, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue and Red Hot Chili Peppers, is also a member of the band Geggy Tah.

– George and Kurstin met while the two were working on her debut album and they decided to collaborate on a jazz-influenced electro pop project.

– According to their MySpace page, “Greg and Inara met a few years ago. Discovered a common love of jazz standards… nerded out for a couple of hours playing every song they knew… and then wrote and recorded a record together.”

– The band’s first full-length album, the self-titled The Bird And The Bee was released on 2007 to positive reviews; Allmusic for example described it as “irresistible” and “charming and delightful at every turn”.

– Summer of 2007 found the band touring as opening act for performer Lily Allen, while their music was heard twice that year on the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy, with “Again & Again” featured twice.

– With the holiday season came additional exposure for the group, when Apple Inc.’s iTunes web store chose “Carol of the Bells” to be the featured “Free Single of the Week” for the week of November 27.

– In 2008 the band released One Too Many Hearts a “digital EP”, exclusively for purchase online. Its February 12, 2008 release timed to coincide with Valentines Day, the four-song collection featured a rendition of the 1920s standard “Tonight You Belong to Me”.

– The Bird and the Bee appear frequently in TV and movie soundtracks: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Sex and the City: The Movie, VH1 promos for their reality show lineup, an episode of Fox’s “Bones”, and the film Funny People.

VIDEO OF THE DAY

This video is amazing!