It's taken me a little while to mention this, but Southern California band Hullabaloo has been on a video-making (and posting) kick over the past 2-3 months. Most of the videos at their YouTube channel are for tracks off their first two CDs Sing Along With Sam and Hey, Everybody!, but Steve Denyes has also posted a video for the second-best ode to parental coffee ever written, "Sippy Cup," off their latest album Tall as a Tree.
Hullabaloo - "Sippy Cup"
As for my very favorite, you'll have to go back to their first CD...
Does Posting This Undermine My Mission?
Explaining any more would just ruin it. It's OK -- it's only 1:22 long.
(Hat tip: Idolator. Also: in answer to my question, no. Dude received a Fids & Kamily vote.)
Video: "Lovely, Love My Family" - The Roots
Not satisfied with listening to "Lovely, Love My Family" by the Roots? Looking for a lo-fi version of the Noggin video that's been airing a whole bunch to amuse your desparate young'un?
Here you go....
Video: "They" - Me3
It's not really a music video -- even though it comes from a music album -- and for the most it's not really animated in the sense that it conveys motion.
Rather, this one-minute long spoken-word video of The Thin King's "They" from Me3 is how Shel Silverstein would be communicating today if he were still alive. Perhaps it's even a long-hidden outtake -- Jason Kleinberg's drawing looking not a little bit like Shel's. I think Shel would approve.
Me3 - "They"
A Whole Bunch of Spanglish Videos
I haven't had a chance yet to talk about The Spanglish Wrangler -- singer-songwriter Will Thomas' take on rootsy bilingual music (take that, Dan Zanes!) I'll rectify that soon enough, but in the meantime he's just posted a bunch of videos to his newly-created YouTube channel of performances in front of a bunch of preschoolers. Most of them are teases more than anything else, but he's got one mostly complete song, the album's energetic "Baila Pollito," along with some even-more-energetic preschool dancing...
Will Thomas - "Baila Pollito"
Video: "We Dress Ourselves" (Live) - Princess Katie & Racer Steve
You usually have to watch animated Disney videos to see princesses sing, but if your kids are looking for something that rocks a wee bit more than your typical Disney princess, New York's Princess Katie and Racer Steve are coming to the rescue -- their live DVD Revved Up & Ready To Rock! is set for release in February. They've just posted a cut from the concert recorded earlier this year at NYC's Highline Ballroom. And, yes, Racer Steve's got his baseball cap.
Princess Katie and Racer Steve - "We Dress Ourselves" (Live)
