The Bird and The Bee taking flight again

There will be no tennis balls flying into the audience from the stage when The Bird and The Bee perform Sunday at the all-ages Irenic in North Park. Credit, or blame, for this goes to an errant ball that struck a concertgoer when the Los Angeles duo performed in May in the Masonic Temple at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

“A fan got hit, so we are not going to do that anymore. We felt terrible,” The Bird and The Bee singer and co-founder Inara George told an interviewer this summer.

(For the record: Rod Stewart has been kicking soccer balls from the stage at his concerts for decades. He continues to do so, even after being sued last year by a man from Diamond Bar, who alleged his nose was broken by one of Stewart’s balls during one of the singer’s 2012 shows in Las Vegas.)

With or without any flying projectiles, The Bird and The Bee know how to hit their mark, musically speaking.

George is the daughter of deceased Little Feat leader Lowell George. Kurstin is best known for his work as a producer for Beck, Flaming Lips, Kelly Clarkson and Pink. More recently, he produced and co-wrote what appears to be the biggest hit of the year, Adele’s “Hello.”

Kurstin and George two joined forces in 2006, after discovering their shared love for singing jazz standards. Their self-titled debut album and its 2007 successor, “Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future,” simultaneously established their love of classic pop and their skill at toying with the music’s conventions.

Their sly humor was readily apparent in such songs as “Diamond Dave” (a romantic ode to Van Halen singer David Lee Roth) and “I Hate Camera” (which, whether by design or not, anticipated the selfie craze with its chorus: “Don’t, don’t / Don’t take my / Don’t take my picture / Don’t, don’t /Don’t take my picture”).

On this year’s “Recreational Love,” their first album of new songs since 2009, the duo offers an effervescent, if gently subversive spin on electro-pop, R&B, dance-music and more. As an added bonus, the video for “Will You Dance?” ranks among the most entertaining music videos ever filmed in an office bathroom.

The Bird and the Bee, with Alex Lilly

When: 7 p.m. Sunday

Where: The Irenic, 3090 Polk Ave, North Park

Tickets: $16 (advance); $18 (at the door)

Online: theirenic.com