Weekly Summary (4/8/12 - 4/14/12)

Radio Playlist: New Music April 2013

It's been a month since my last Spotify update for new music (see March playlist here), so time to publish a new one.  As always, it's limited in that if an artist hasn't chosen to post a song on Spotify, I can't put it on the list, nor can I feature songs from as-yet-unreleased albums.  But new stuff is always going into my Spotify pile, if you can have a pile of bits and bytes.

Check out the list here or go right here if you're in Spotify.

**** New Music April 2013 (April 2013 Kindie Playlist) ****

Milkshake – Girls Wanna Dance
Danna Banana – John Banana Milkshake
Twinkle Time – Fun in the Sun
The Hipwaders – Gaia She Knows (Single Edit)
Lizza Connor – Hands Are for Clapping
Cadence – Puffle Party (Gotta Have a Wingman)
Spaghetti Eddie – Back to School
Ethan Rossiter and the Jamberries – Miss Mary Mack
The Happy Hands Band – Happy Hands
Mary Kaye – Bloom
Charity Kahn – Green Beans Everywhere

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March Z7: What You Missed (Or Not, I Hope)

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I do feel compelled to remind you occasionally of what great music you're missing out on if you're not signed up for (or opening up) the Zooglobble newsletter.  Newsletter recipients get the occasional Z7 newsletter featuring 7 tracks from 7 artists, downloadable for free for just 7 days.​

The March Z7 has come and gone, and here's what we featured this time around:​

​The Not-Its! - "Let's Skateboard"

​Moona Luna - "No Me Digas"

Paul Spring - "Home of Song"​

​Bill Harley & Keith Munslow - "It's Not Fair To Me"

Milkshake - "Starry Starry Night"​

​The Boogers - "Pandas Are Dangerous"

Hand Aid - "Felt Around the World"​

​As a mixtape, I'm not sure that set of songs flows well, but those are seven fine songs, folks.  More Z7s are in the works.  Sign up today.

Video: "Lovely" - Helen Austin

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Helen Austin is having a good year.  Between having her first kids album Always Be a Unicorn​ nominated for a JUNO Award for best children's music album and releasing some cute little videos (here's another), her sweet folk-pop is getting some definite visibility.

Her latest video from Unicorn​ is for the song "Lovely," and it's as if Michael Rachap decided to get all crafty with his Readeez.  (Not really: the animation was done by UK firm Guns For Hire Film.)  I just think this is a simple but well-done video that properly accentuates Austin's lyrics. 

Helen Austin - "Lovely" [YouTube]​

Weekly Summary (4/1/12 - 4/7/12)

Video: "When I Look Into the Night Sky" - Lori Henriques (World Premiere)

On her 2011 debut Outside My Door, Lori Henriques exhibited a taste for brainy wordplay to go along with her jazzy and occasionally melancholic pianoplay, wrapped in packaging designed by her brother Joel Henriques.   How brainy?  Her contribution to the 2012 compilation Science Fair  dealt with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.

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Henriques is now getting ready to release her follow-up album The World Is a Curious Place To Live on June 4, and I'm pleased as punch to debut the first video from the album.  It's for "When I Look Into the Night Sky," a nifty reworking of the classic "St. John's Infirmary."   Rather than wowing us with scientific fact, this new track is a wide-eyed and wondrous appreciation of the infinite expanse outside our planet and its connection to the individual.  Lori once again gets an assist from her brother Joel, who put together the video featuring the tiny paper puppets.   "Sparkle" and "marvel," indeed.

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Bonus tidbit: Did you know that yesterday (98 years ago, at least), the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics -- the predecessor to NASA -- was founded?  Even almost a century ago, people were actively trying to figure out how to connect more closely with the stars and planets around us.

Lori Henriques - "When I Look Into the Night Sky" [YouTube]