NWA | Straight Outta Compton

Been listening to a lot of NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" lately and even though it's been awhile since its initial release (1988), the production quality is still amazing. One might say timeless.

Peter Buck (of R.E.M) Shout-Out in The Word

A friend of our's sent us an email the other day to tell us Peter Buck of R.E.M. had been listening to our record and mentioned it in an interview with The Word magazine. Pretty wild stuff! Click here for the link.

Polvo Reunion | Los Angeles at The Echoplex

What started as one reunion show at All Tomorrow's Parties has luckily for us turned into shows being booked in most major cities throughout the United States. Upon hearing they are coming to Los Angeles at the Echoplex on 08/31/08, their first album "Cor-Crane Secret" was quickly pulled from the record shelf as a reminder of how good they were. Check out the below Polvo mix to hear what you may have missed:

CoCo B's at Little Radio - Sunday, August 3, 2008

We're especially thrilled to be playing Little Radio's Summer Camp this coming Sunday, 08/03/08, with Restaurant and Spider Problem. Little Radio's Downtown Warehouse is located at 1218 Long Beach Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90021. Where else are you going to get an open mic from 12pm-3pm, a 30 foot water slide, an 18 foot pool, amazing food from Tagine, free cold drinks and bands!!?!? Click here for Summer Camp photos. Bands start at 3pm.

Feist on Sesame Street

Although it doesn't air until the Monday, 08/11/08, Feist's performance of "1 2 3 4" on Sesame Street surfaced on YouTube recently. She changes the words up a bit to match the teaching values of Sesame Street... And why not go for the elementary school demographic. Regardless, the song is still fantastic. The only question is where's The Count?

The Muslims | Los Angeles By Way of San Diego

Having heard about The Muslims from a few other blogs in recent weeks, we discovered their Myspace is a great place to start. Every song they have up on Myspace (6) are available as a free download and it's well worth it to download all six. Looks like they have an album forthcoming, hopefully sooner than later. They're playing a bunch of shows coming up so check their Myspace for news on that front. RIYL: The Strokes, The Velvet Underground, The Modern Lovers, Jonathan Richman.

CoCo B's, Emma Stone and GQ Magazine

Every now and then we find out about stuff happening with our little CoCo B's band that makes us go, huh(?), what(?), AWESOME! Check out the above video, this just happens to be one of those things. The GQ.com video features Emma Stone from the movie Superbad, The Rocker, etc.... along with our song "Daytrader."

Pixies "Velouria" | Bossanova

The word on the street is a lot of Pixies fans were disappointed with the album Bossanova when it first came out. It's too bad, there are some really great songs on there including "Dig for Fire" and "Velouria" (see the above video).

CoCo B's Perform "Sister Cold Caller" on Vlaze TV

A few live performances that we did on Vlaze TV's Rock Remedy show have gone up onto YouTube recently and we thought we'd share them with you. The song "Sister Cold Caller" [mp3] from one of our earlier releases, The Fast-Trak Holy Nova Symphony, has become one of our favorite songs to play live and if you've heard the song before you can probably tell we've re-worked it a bit.

In keeping with the theme of this post, here's CoCo B's Basement Songs Mix #4 featuring some of our current and past releases:

Girl Talk | Feed the Animals

Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, Pittsburgh's very own biomedical engineer by day and mash-up superstar DJ by night has just released his new full length titled "Feed the Animals." The downloadable album is available in the same format as the Radiohead album was, meaning you pay what you want.... $0.00 (fREE)..... $10.00... Whatever you want. If your into mash-ups, this one is quite spectacular. Click here for the download.

Psychic Powers | RCRD LBL fREE Downloads

If you're into 80's synth pop like we are, you'll probably be into this band, Psychic Powers. Their bio states: "Psychic Powers was formed in 2007 by Nik Brinkman of Over The Atlantic and Alejandro Cohen of Languis. The two met briefly in Los Angeles while Nik was on tour. They then decided to collaborate and write songs together via the Internet from their home countries, New Zealand and the United States, respectively."

Our friends over at RCRD LBL have made (3) of their songs recently available as fREE downloads, click here. RIYL: Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, OMD, Human League.

Brooklyn's Creaky Boards vs. Coldplay

The Brooklyn band, Creaky Boards, have been in the music news a lot this past week for claiming Coldplay ripped off their song "The Songs I Didn't Write." Is it just a marketing ploy to become famous, or are they onto something here.... Check out the above video made by the band and you decide.

Alex's Bar | Thursday | June 12, 2008

We're playing with a great local line-up at Alex's Bar this Thursday, 06/12/08, with The Secret 6, Mezzanine Owls and The Pity Party. The Pity Party recently scored a nice feature in the NME over in the UK, check it out here.

As part of our ongoing series of what's in the CoCo B's player lately, here's our Basement Songs Mix #3:

CoCo B's in SPIN Magazine!?!?!?!?!!!?!

It's been awhile since we posted anything CoCo B's related, so.... We found out the other day we're currently featured in SPIN Magazine's June 2008 issue under the section "Songs You Need to Download Now!" Our song, "Give Up the Money (1982)", has a little write up next to our CoCo B's family photo pic. Stay tuned... We've got some other interesting things in the works as well.

The Helio Sequence | Keep Your Eyes Ahead

Even though the latest Helio Sequence album came out a few months ago in January, it hasn't left the CoCo B's player in quite some time. The atmosphere and sound FX really put the songs over the top. RIYL: Bob Dylan, Modest Mouse, Brian Eno, Arcade Fire. You can listen to some of the songs from their album on our Basement Songs Mix #2 below:

R.E.M | Radio Free Europe | Letterman 1983

R.E.M. performed two songs, Radio Free Europe and So. Central Rain, on David Letterman in October of 1983 when their album "Murmur" came out. Wow! Letterman holds up the biggest Compact Disc (CD) ever seen. Pretty great performances and a little interview before So. Central Rain where Peter Buck talks about some of the other bands from Athens, Georgia, including Pylon. The Pylon stuff is really pretty good. They recently released a new record on James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem's record label DFA Records.

Death Cab for Cutie | Narrow Stairs | 05/13/08

The good folks over at Welikeit.indie posted a new documentary titled "Open Windows" on the making of Death Cab for Cutie's new album "Narrow Stairs," pretty interesting stuff. The album comes out tomorrow, Tuesday - 05/13/08, and the early reviews are indicating a definite departure from previous albums. It seems if you like Death Cab for Cutie already, then you'll probably love this album. And if your a hater, then I guess you can continue hating.

1973 | Very Superstitious | Writing's on the Wall

Check out the kid at the top of the stairs headbangin' like there's no tomorrow. Nothing short of amazing, Stevie Wonder and the band are tearin' it up on the set of Sesame Street in 1973.