The Brothers Schwartzman

I wrote about Jason's music career as Coconut Records, here. But did you know that his younger brother Robert is the lead singer and guitarist of a moderately popular band called Rooney?

As a fan of both bands and an unapologetic fanatic for all of Jason's movies (go see Fantastic Mr.Fox right now) I have to admit it's a little disappointing that Coconut Records doesn't tour. From what I understand, Jason has only ever performed one or two songs from his albums live on about three different charitable occasions somewhere in California, each time effectively opening for Rooney and using them as his backing band. For the most part they play his single, "West Coast." Of course, he doesn't need to tour or sell records for the money, but personally I think the only reason he doesn't tour is because he can't sing and play guitar simultaneously.

HERE are the videos that exist of these performances. Each was taken by a shaky cell phone, but in each Jason simply sings while his brother does most of the legwork.

It's okay Jason, I can't do it either.