Key Wilde was an illustrator long before he recorded music for kids. So the fact that Key Wilde and Mr. Clarke shows now have some visual accompaniment makes perfect sense. A bunch of video from their Saturday show at the 92Y Tribeca have been posted to YouTube and while the mechanics of the video aren't quite worked out (check out the mouse work on the always-awesome "Rattlin' Can" after the jump), it just makes their shows even better. Their debut album Rise and Shine comes out later this summer on Little Monster Records -- here's a surprisingly nimble "Big Pet Pig" from the album.
Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke - "Big Pet Pig"
Video (and mp3): "Best Friends Forever" - AudraRox
This video from Brooklyn's AudraRox has been out there for a year now, but I'm only now just finding it. It's for "Best Friends Forever," a selection from the new Sesame Street: Being Green DVD. It's a sharp-looking video (yay for Sesame Workshop's deep pockets!) and a fun song.... which is now (newly) available for your downloading pleasure here. I love the line "Warm in the middle / cold at the ends..."
AudraRox - "Best Friends Forever"
There's more, of course.
Video: "I've Got a Laugh" - Debbie and Friends
Last week I posted some art and a rough video from the latest Debbie and Friends video, "I've Got a Laugh." Well, the finished product is out, and it does look pretty slick.
I have to tell you, though, I think Debbie Cavalier might want to look for some of her money back. I've met Debbie in person, and she totally has five fingers, not four, on each of her hands.
Debbie and Friends - "I've Got a Laugh"
Video: "Watermelon" - Readeez
Michael Rachap and his Readeez project just keeps pluggin' along, posting new Readeez clips almost weekly, it seems. A veritable online jukebox he has now. Yesterday he posted four new clips, may favorite being the one below. What the word-celebrating video loses perhaps a bit in odd rhyming "words" ("kid'll"? "a'ya"? props, though, for the rhymes), it makes up for being very juicy. And a cute tune to boot.
Readeez - "Watermelon"
Video: "Old Joe Clark" - The Stripey Boys (The Rosinators)
I wish I had more bluegrass to share here on the site, just because much of the traditional kids music sounds so good with a bit of banjo. Here's a video from a group billing themselves as "The Stripey Boys." In reality, it's the British bluegrass group The Rosinators. It's a clean and lively rendition sonically; visually, the animation based on Satoshi Kitamura's drawings is a bit dull stretched out over 4 minutes, at least for the adults. But I think the kids'll be amused enough, and I also like the shout-outs to the different instruments used at the end of the video.
The Stripey Boys - "Old Joe Clark"
If you liked that, there's more...
Video: "Fort" - Recess Monkey
You are unlikely to see a more minimalist kids music video this year than this one from Recess Monkey, the fourth from their upcoming Field Trip album and Field Trips with Recess Monkey DVD. It's not funny ha-ha, and might've taken just 5 minutes to film but it'll probably inspire your kids (or you) to create a fort of your own.
