Flight Of The Conchords

"Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo"

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are Flight Of The Conchords, a Grammy award winning folk-comedy-duo who are also stars of their own TV and radio series. They are also sometimes known by their rap aliases, Rhymenocerous & Hiphopopotamus.

I've been a big fan of the TV series since a friend recommended it to me about a year ago. It's so funny and original and works on so many different levels. The show is about Bret and Jemaine trying to make it as a band in New York along with their manager Murray and their only fan, Mel. Each episode has a musical performace in it, which is part of the plot. My favourite one of these would probably be in the episode 'Bowie', where they pay homage to David Bowie:

They released their debut album earlier this year, which features a lot of the songs from the TV and radio shows, all re-recorded with producer Mickey Petralia for the album, which has now been certified Platinum. Their previous EP 'The Distant Future', won a Grammy award in 2007.

To promote the release of the album, the band played an instore performance at Amoeba records in Hollywood back in April. It's about an hour long, but well worth watching if you have time:

Doesn't the Amoeba record store look awesome? I'd love to go there, it looks like a proper record store should, cluttered, loved, full of passion and with lot's of good music. Wish we had one in the UK.