Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Encore

In a continuing effort to milk this actors-turned-musicians theme as much as possible, here's 3 more thesbians whose attempts at making tunes are actually pretty good.

Zooey Daschanel - She & Him





Here, the adorable, and recently married, (see next post) Daschanel hooks up with neo-folkster M. Ward with an album full of smart, chariming and critically adored country-tinged, folk-pop. I'm not the world's biggest M. Ward fan, but still I cringed when I heard he was teaming up with an actress. Now I have to say I like He & She far more then M. Ward's solo material. Her heart-felt lyrics and brassy vocals have added a far greater dimension to his folk repotoire - easy on the ears and the eyes.

Jack Black - Tenacious D





Not suprisingly, the actor who played a struggling musician in both High Fidelity and School of Rock, is, actually, a musician. While not exactly my cup of tea, there's no arguing that Black is a gifted guitar player. While most actors who try to be rockstars are just funny, Jack Black and Tenacious D are actually funny on purpose.

Jason Schwartzman - Phantom Planet





Long before he starred as Max Fischer in Rushmore or as the existentially confused, Albert Markovski, in I Heart Huckabees, Schwartzman was the drummer for the band Phantom Planet, which he formed when he was only 14 years-old. Though he has since left the band to pursue his acting career, he was around long enough to record the monster hit and O.C. theme song, "California." Note: Paul Schaffer is not in the band.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous22/9/09 11:16

    That She and Him song has some Dead Man's Bones style to it...love it!

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  2. What about Juliet Lewis? Is she any good? Also, my good friend Ariella was friends with Schwartzman in high school...connect the Jews. Love this post.

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