Listen To This: "C'mon" - Renee & Jeremy

Here it is, folks, the title track from the new Renee & Jeremy album, C'mon. As I mentioned before, the duo's using some interesting methods to distribute and promote their new album, due out November 10. They've hooked up with TopSpin, who among other albums, helped distribute the recent David Byrne/Brian Eno collaboration.

Anyway, to get a free mp3 of the title track -- and you want to get it, because it's a wonderfully zippy and slightly mellow song perfect for a fall morning -- just enter your e-mail in the widget below. And if you want to spread the word, just click on "share" below.

New Renee and Jeremy Album, C'mon, Due November 10

More than a year ago, Renee Stahl and Jeremy Toback, AKA Renee and Jeremy, said they were going into the studio to record It's A Big World! Well, a full change of seasons after Toback described the new album as "a little light, a little dark, like smores, the album has a name (C'mon), a release date (November 10), and, best of all, album art. Yes, that's Hsingping Pan's artwork gracing the cover once more, a cover which does indeed match the more uptempo nature of the new disk. (You can click here for a link to a couple stripped-down early versions of tracks from the new album.)

There'll be some interesting methods of distribution for this new album, but for the moment, the only other thing I have to share is the tracklist, which is after the jump...

1. share
2. c'mon
3. wishing well
4. it makes you feel good
5. magic life
6. is it really any wonder
7. mama papa love
8. bff
9. watch where you're going
10. right now
11. do do do do
12. rely

Video: "We Are One" - Renee and Jeremy

New video this morning from LA's Renee and Jeremy. It's a little different from most kids music videos in that it's actually a benefit video, raising awareness for the anti-poverty organization Action Aid. The video is for "We Are One" from their debut It's A Big World!. The video, which features a lot of smiling kids, is simple, but I think it does what it was intended to do. It might even hold your kids' attention for 3 minutes.

Renee and Jeremy - "We Are One"

An Open Letter to Residents of Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, and the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

So I've been getting newsletters from Elizabeth Mitchell on a regular basis talking about her late summer tour of the West Coast. I knew, therefore, that she was going to be singing with Renee & Jeremy earlier this month (Suni Paz in LA was a surprise) and Frances England and Charity Kahn this past weekend. I even knew (I think) that she was going to sing with Justin Roberts last month. (They sang the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning.")

What I didn't expect is that nobody was going to upload any video to the Internet. C'mon, people! I don't have one of those fancy iPhones or other cell phones with a camera in them, but somebody out there must've gone to the show with one in hand.

And now I hear that the lads from Recess Monkey are going to be joining Elizabeth on stage for their shows in Seattle this Saturday.

Seattle -- you can do it! Video! Video! Video! (Hey, I gave you, like, fiveRecess Monkey videos.)

(Note: Unless, of course, recording is expressly prohibited by the terms and conditions of the ticket entry. Then, er, forget I ever asked.)

Listen To This: "Share" and "Is It Really Any Wonder?" (and more!) - Renee and Jeremy

A few weeks ago, I got a note from Jeremy Toback, half of the LA duo Renee and Jeremy (you guess which half) which said that they were going into the studio to record the follow-up to their sweet and hypnotic debut It's A Big World!. Toback described the album as "definitely not lullabies... groovy and sweet. A little light, a little dark, like smores."

Well, music from those recording sessions are starting to trickle out. Luxury Wafers, the blog of the ChessVolt studios where Toback and Renee Stahl are recording the new album, has posted five new live mp3s for listening or downloading. "Share" is definitely the more upbeat of the tracks, while "Is It Really Any Wonder?" is a little more downtempo along the lines of the first album. If you liked the first album, you're gonna like those. (And if you haven't heard the first album, live tracks of "Free," "Night Mantra," and "We Are One" are there for your enjoyment, too.)

Toback wrote in to clarify that they're actually recording the album at his house -- they just finished this past week. So those tracks up above, which were definitely demo-style anyway, have nothing to do with the actual recording session for the album, photos of which are after the jump.
Photo credits: Benjamin Alfaro