Flight of the Conchords
Desperate for me to add still more youtube videos to your friends page? Then you're in luck, because I'm kicking off the modern music appreciation series, in which I'll pick artists about whom to post videos and background information. A bunch of crap you could easily dig up off of youtube and wikipedia? You bet! But I'm still going to subject you to it. There's a ton of crazy awesome music out there, but a lot of it isn't widely known, and much of the rest of it people just don't know much about. Hell, I don't -- this is as much for me as it is for you.

We're gonna start off on a light note, with the cutting edge of 2007, Flight of the Conchords. Why? Because it's Wednesday, and you know what that means:

Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning folk, pop, and comedy band composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo" (having been bumped by a tribute band of themselves, Like of the Conchords), the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterization and acoustic guitars to work the audience. The duo's comedy and music became first the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007, also called Flight of the Conchords.

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The duo stars in a television series for HBO, entitled Flight of the Conchords, which premiered in the United States in June 2007. The series revolves around the pair as they try to achieve success in New York City as a band and try to develop an American fan base. The regular cast includes fellow comedians Rhys Darby as Murray, Arj Barker as Dave, Kristen Schaal as Mel and Eugene Mirman as Eugene. This show also features many other comedians in guest starring roles. Their humorous songs are woven into the plot of each episode. The first season consisted of 12 episodes, with a second season announced to return in 2008. The DVD was released on November 6, 2007.

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