Ettes’ Hames Takes on Valley Girls

A/K/A escape from L.A. - the sequel!

By Fred Mills

Blurt "co-co-editor" Coco Hames fronts The Ettes - Hames on guitar, Jem Cohen on bass and Poni Silver on drums. Their Greg Cartwright-produced album Do You Want Power arrived in stores last fall, their music was featured in the Drew Barrymore-directed film Whip It, and you bet we've got a big feature on the band in the latest issue of BLURT. You can also read it on the web here.

Meanwhile, the band commences a big European tour next week then upon returning to the states will be headed to Austin for SXSW. Check out the band's MySpace page for music and tour dates.

Prior to leaving town, though, we had Coco send us the latest entry for her BLURT blog, "Look At Life." It's the 17^th installment to date, which officially makes her the most prolific writer we have.

This time around she looks back to her dog days living in L.A., working as a receptionist in a hair salon, running a hipster boutique - and almost taking a job as a nanny. Luckily for her, the latter job didn't come to pass, but it did come back to haunt her in a weird way that's far too complicated to get into here. So we suggest you hotfoot it over to her blog right now and see what she has to say about la-la land, valley girls and more.