Rejoice! It's time for another humorous Gustafer Yellowgold video with food as its subject!
This time it's "Pancake Smackdown," and it's the first, er, taste of the forthcoming Gustafer Yellowgold CD/DVD set Gustafer Yellowgold's Year in the Day, out April 3. It features assorted pancake-related violence, so the gluten-intolerant may want to look away.
Gustafer Yellowgold - "Pancake Smackdown" [YouTube]
Monday Morning Smile: "Needing/Getting" - OK Go
If OK Go's songs were as consistently entertaining as their videos, they would be the world's biggest band. As it stands, they are merely the world's biggest conceptual artists. I mean, they created a video in which they play the music by driving through a race course and having implements attached to their car play instruments played along the course. And they got a corporate sponsor to pay for it. So, in case you haven't seen it yet...
OK Go - "Needing/Getting" [YouTube]
A bonus OK Go video after the jump...
Video: "My Flea Has Dogs" - Caspar Babypants
Whew. It had been more than three months since the last video from Caspar Babypants. I was kinda getting worried.
But never fear, CB's back with a retro-styled video for "My Flea Has Dogs" from his latest album Sing Along!. Lots of dogs. And one flea.
Caspar Babypants - "My Flea Has Dogs" [YouTube]
Video: "Humpty Dumpty" - Groove Kid Nation
I'm posting this video from Music in Motion, the latest album from Groove Kid Nation (the creation of L.A. musician Rodney Lee) mostly for one reason: the stinky face.
The animation's OK (a bit static, but it'll do in a pinch), and the groove on this retelling of the story of Humpty Dumpty is pretty funky, but, like I said, it's all about the stinky face. How often do you get to learn about the stinky face in a musically-appropriate manner?
Groove Kid Nation - "Humpty Dumpty" [YouTube]
Monday Morning Smile: "Violet" - Jeremy Messersmith
Take one longtime fan of Twin Cities musician Jeremy Messersmith, mix in a video featuring kids having a snowball fight, and what you get is a "Monday Morning Smile."
The video's for "Violet," one of several great tracks off his great 2010 album The Reluctant Graveyard. And, yeah, a snowball fight is actually kinda thematically appropriate. Keep the video in mind for this year's "Storm of the Century."
Jeremy Messersmith - "Violet" [Vimeo]
Video: "Everybody Sing" - Imagination Movers (World Premiere)
“Reach high, think big, work hard, have fun!”
This is probably imprinted in the brains of probably millions of kids and their parents. It's the motto of New Orleans' Imagination Movers, and as mottoes (and band jingles) go, it's a pretty darn good one.
The band's popularity is due in no small part to their Disney Junior series (and, yes, new episodes are coming in 2012), but anybody's who seem 'em live (even folks like me who weren't in their target audience) will testify to the fact that they're going to have a career long after they stop making music and video for the Mouse.
In fact, in 2011, they signed a deal with Razor & Tie, and next month -- February 14, to be exact -- Razor + Tie will release the band's new CD/DVD Rock-O-Matic. I've listened to a lot of the album, and I can guarantee a few tracks will be concert favorites. Luckily, the band's embarking on an 80-date concert tour starting in early March (details here) so you'll have plenty of opportunities to put my guarantee to the test.
The album was made available for pre-orders yesterday; besides the CD, it also includes a DVD, which the Movers promise includes "skits that recall old-school Movers comedy heroes like Monty Python and the Monkees" and more.
But perhaps you'd like to hear one of those new songs before February 14? Well, then, I'm proud to present the world premiere of one of those instant concert classics, "Everybody Sing." I apologize in advance for getting this stuck in your brain for the rest of the day.
Imagination Movers - "Everybody Sing" [YouTube]
Photo credit: Adams Photography
