New music from Ralph's World. According to Gwyneth, who filmed this at the DC-area hotbed of kids music Jammin' Java this track will be on the next Ralph's World album. Some nifty chord and guitar work, a loping melody, and another addition, to Ralph's extended canon of vehicle-based songs. Seriously, there's pretty much a full album's worth of wheeled songs.
Ralph's World - "Easy Rider" [YouTube]
Video: "Tiny Telephone" - Recess Monkey
The only thing cuter than the winsome "Tiny Telephone" from Recess Monkey's Field Trip is the game of tic tac toe in this, the video for the song. Who knew Daron and Drew lived across the street from one another? Methinks this is common in rainy Seattle...
Recess Monkey - "Tiny Telephone" [YouTube]
Video: "What I've Learned" - Readeez
Video: "Ed" - Clementown
I already mentioned this video in my review of Polkabats and Octopus Slacks, the debut CD from Clementown, based on the poetry and pictures of Calef Brown. But now it's been posted in a much larger format to YouTube. So you can enjoy the dreamy soundscape accompanying Brown's art (and words). I love the way it looks old -- is there a computer macro for that the way you can make any video look like a Ken Burns documentary?
Clementown - "Ed" [YouTube]
Video: "The Teens" - Recess Monkey
One of my favorite tracks from Recess Monkey's Field Trip is the Elvis Costello homage "The Teens." Now the band's got Daron Henry in the goofy (but kinda tecnically advanced) video for the song, starring as Nineteen, Eighteen, Seventeen, Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen, Thirteen, and, er, Twelve...teen.
Recess Monkey - "The Teens" [YouTube]
Video: "Wake Up" - The Hipwaders
It is supposed to be 95 degrees here tomorrow. The cognitive dissonance produced by watching this video while possessed of that knowledge is nearly overwhelming, but seeing animated kids get hit by or dumped on with snow is worth it, I guess. Here it is, "Wake Up," the first video from The Hipwaders' Christmastime album, A Kindie Christmas. Nice song, cute video (animated by Planet Sunday). Nobody more than I would like to wake up someplace cool right now.
The Hipwaders - "Wake Up" [YouTube]
