Enjoying listening to "Hula Hoop to Da Loop" from the forthcoming Keller Williams album Kids? Of course you are. But maybe you're more of a visually-stimulated family. Then check out this video, featuring Williams, a display of his looping prowess, and a display of his (and others') hula-hooping prowess. Fun.
Radio Playlist: New Music October 2010
Time once again to update the Zooglobble radio station. Lots of disks since my last update. This playlist airs in the mid-afternoons (West Coast time), but if you can't listen in the afternoon, the tracks are scattered throughout the day, too.
Antarctica - Aaron Joseph (A Band of Our Own)
Josey Durango, The Boy Raised By Bullfrogs - The Amoeba People - (Songs, Stories, And Other Non Sequiturs)
I'm in Trouble Again - Big Bang Boom (Songs Your Mom Will Like!)
Mister Rabbit - Caspar Babypants w/ Charlie Hope (This Is Fun!)
Hot and Bothered - Duke Ellington (Swing Cafe)
Place In Your Heart - Frances England w/ Mates of State (Mind of My Own)
Sock Monster - Groovy David (Everybody)
Wrong's Alright - Jeremy Plays Guitar (Use Your Words)
Spaghetti And Goofballs - Jim Cosgrove (Swimming In Noodles)
Hula Hoop To Da Loop - Keller Williams (Kids)
Vagabond Worms - Kindiependent
What I Like - Krazy Kuzins (Krazy Kuzins Its A Kid's Thing)
Hairdos - Meredith Wright's Sweetbeatz (Soulful Songs for City Kids)
Studio Brew - The Monkey Bunch (Power 2 The Little People)
Brinca Jump! - Moona Luna w/ Dan Zanes (Piñata Party)
The Hammer - Paul Campagne (The Little Blue Doggy)
QWERTYUIOP - Professor Banjo (Old Time, Good Time!)
Digging The Weeds - Readeez (Growing Veggie Soup; Celebrate Earth Music Series)
Suspicious Minds - Rockabye Baby! (Lullaby Renditions of Elvis Presley)
All My Friends Are Different - Salteens (Kid Songs)
Red Rover - Scythian (Cake For Dinner : A Children's Album)
Due to internet radio restrictions, playlist is shown alphabetically by artist.
Video: "Googly Eyes" - Caspar Babypants
Has Chris Ballew AKA Caspar Babypants released a bad music video yet? The answer, methinks, is no. His latest in his minimalist classics is for "Googly Eyes" from his upcoming album This Is Fun! (released Nov. 2nd). A pen, some household objects (the calculator made me laugh), and a pair of googly eyes (natch) -- that's all you need, really. Well, I suppose a good editor helps, too. Watch this video, then cheer up and smile.
Caspar Babypants - "Googly Eyes" [YouTube]
Video: "Night Mantra" - Renee & Jeremy
LA's Renee & Jeremy go back to their first album It's a Big World for this, their latest video for "Night Mantra." I applaud the mother in the simple but nicely done video for having more patience with her slow-to-sleep child than I might have. The video reminds me just how much I love the way it takes forever for the song to fade away. "Sleep now in your room," indeed.
Renee & Jeremy - "Night Mantra" [YouTube]
Video: "Robot" - The Baby Grands
Turns out their teaser video was slightly apropos. The Baby Grands, whose new album The Baby Grands II comes out Nov. 16th (even your preschooler could probably guess how many albums they've released, have produced their first video for the album. It's for the song "Robot" and features a boogie-ing robot. No surprise they prefer Android operating systems...
The Baby Grands - "Robot" [YouTube]
Listen To This: "You Are Here" (Lunch Money vs. Grody Remix) - Lunch Money
A couple months ago, I premiered "You Are Here" by the South Carolina band Lunch Money. It was one of the many fine tracks on the Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti benefit disk released on Bill Childs' Spare the Rock Records.
And then about a week afterward, I received an odd e-mail -- a remix of the song by one Bil Hooper (known here as Grody), who described the result as "re-imagined as a cross between Neutral Milk Hotel and the Sundays." Yeah, he had that about right. I said it sounded pretty cool, and Hooper apologized for the low sound quality of the remix since he only had the actual mp3, not the individual tracks.
"You know, Molly [Ledford, Lunch Money songwriter extraordinaire] might be willing to share the original tracks with you," I said (essentially).
Which is how Bill world-premiered the remix below on his show this morning and why, with Bill and Molly's permission, you can stream it here. I still think it's pretty cool.
