There's been buzz around the band The Bird and the Bee recently. And I am sure that with the release of their first commercial CD tomorrow there will be plenty of journalists/bloggers jumping on the buzz/bee play-on-words wagon. In any case, lucky recipient of a promotional advance CD that I am, my daughter and I have been bopping around the house for many days now to Bird and Bee, which recorded a CD of joyful smooth pop, with some angry lyrics, such as are found in the song "Fucking Boyfriend." A "smart" production." (My husband likes them, too, but he doesn't really bop around the house.)

The Bird and the Bee are a duo, Inara George and Greg Kurstin. The reason I am writing about them on my Echo Park blog is that Kurstin lives and works in the neighborhood, where he and George are said to have written the music to their CD. He has a "classy" background, which includes jazz study with Jaki Byard and recording credits with the Flaming Lips. Not to mention the EP address. A Blue Note records press release says he "was a jazz piano prodigy by the time he started shaving." Inara George, meanwhile, is the daughter of Little Feat founder Lowell George. She has a reportedly succesful solo release, "All Rise."

As for buzz, Bird and Bee were scheduled to be on Jay Leno a couple of nights ago. And they have been playing -- or will play -- a couple of shows at Sundance, ancillary, I think, to the festival. Maybe someone will make a movie about them. It certainly isn't too far-fetched, as they have 8,104 friends registered on My Space. That's a lot of friends. One of them must be a music-documetary filmmaker. It turned me off at first, the slickness of 8,104 official My Space friends. Is this big-time dressed in sheep's clothing? But then I really like the CD, and so in the end I don't care how many friends they have.