Artist: Baron Von Rumblebuss
Song: "Byke"
Album: Summer-Sonic
Description: This is a fairly lo-fi video, a "condensed shot of our favorite bike ride" in North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham area, as BVR's mastermind Tray Batson puts it. But its mellow filtered vibe and surprisingly un-sped up visuals match the dreamy song celebrating bike-riding quite nicely.
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Artist: StevenSteven
Song: "The Unicorn and Princess Rainbow"
Album: Foreverywhere
Description: Steve Burns wearing a headband with a unicorn horn, Steven Drozd playing 3 instruments at once, and an epic story acted out by, what, 7-year olds? Psychedelic rock has never been so kindie.
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Artist: Justin Roberts
Song: "Rolling Down the Hill"
Album: Lemonade
Description: A cute kid playing office, Justin mugging for the camera as he pretends to play Robbie Fulks' guitar solo, and a sweet fiddle-tinged folk song (with a fiddler to boot). All that and one of my favorite closing lyrical lines in a kindie song this or perhaps any other year.
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Artist: Jennifer Paskow
Song: "Make a Circle"
Album: Make a Circle
Description: Sunny, smiling kids and adults to go with a sunny, smile-y song. Lots of movements to be made along with the music, too. The video is directed by 17-year-old Claire Jantzen, whose skill in putting together this video at such a young age bodes well for her future success in not only film and directing but probably anything else she puts her mind to.
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Artist: The Okee Dokee Brothers
Song: "Somos Amigos"
Album: Saddle Up
Description: For the final album in their "Adventure Album" trilogy, the Okee Dokee Brothers headed west. As with their predecessors, this album also features some guest stars, including Carlos Medina y El Trio los Gallos. "Somos Amigos" is a simple bilingual folk song with a healthy helping of Tejano accordion, all of which is A-OK by me. There's not much to the video -- the duo and the quartet playing on a bridge that straddles (appropriately, given the subject matter and approach) the Rio Grande (albeit in Colorado) -- but since the Adventure Albums have always been as much about the Brothers meeting others as their own individual adventures, that seems appropriate.
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Artist: Play Date
Song: "We All Shine"
Album: We All Shine
Description: The title track from Play Date's second album sits firmly in the poppier end of the pop-punk spectrum the New Jersey-based duo, so it's not surprising that this song celebrating nature and our part in it features dancing cacti, pine trees, and sunflowers. But, man, are those anthropomorphic animals and geographic features -- my favorite are the chorus of mountains -- from director Ellliot Lobell cute cute cute.
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Artist: Hullabaloo
Song: "I Chew"
Album: I Chew
Description: Steve Denyes has a new album out later this month. The album grew out of Denyes’ challenge to himself last February to write and record a song a day for 3 weeks. He took the best songs, recorded them in the studio with band partner Brendan Kremer and a third artist, and a year later now he’s releasing a video a day. OK, not really. The title track is simple, but there’s enough humor in seeing the stuffed panda bear in different situations to amuse the preschoolers that are the heart of Hullabaloo’s audience.
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Artist: Andy Mason
Song: "Sam Who Only Ate Jam (A Cautionary Tale)"
Album: N/A
Description: The New Mexico-based Mason teams up with the unofficial poet laureate of kindie, Kenn Nesbitt (there's no poet -- including probably Dr. Seuss -- who's had more of his poetry turned into music) for this ode to a particularly narrow-minded kid. The song and video are pretty simple, but the song's got a nice ending. Worth a couple minutes of your time, particularly if you have someone with an affinity for Shel Silverstein-like lyrics.
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