It's Sort of Like Early Voting, But for Kids Music

I mentioned a while back that the ScribbleEmpire had posted some new songs from their Nov. 4th ScribbleMonster release Songs With No Character. Well now you can stream that whole Election Day-released disk at ScribbleMonster's Radio page. Go and listen now -- and if you like what you hear, for a limited time you can buy two copies for the price of one. Such a deal.

New Jimmies Videos To Feature Green Screens and Robots With Mad Skillz

I know, I know, I talk about The Jimmies a lot. So even though their videos are awesome, and they've posted incomplete clips of two more videos on their website, I wasn't going to post anything here. "Cool To Be Uncool" is a fun song and will feature a bunch of green-screen and wind machine technology, but it could wait. "Soaper the Scaredy-Bot" is a live video, and features an appearance by the title character, but is, well, just a live video. And then Soaper started tap-dancing. Go to the Jimmies' video page now for the next week to see. (And, yeah, Ashley told me about it, but I'd forgotten.)

Did The Banjo Not Fit In The Bathroom?

A couple months ago, the Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson posted on YouTube 3 songs recorded in his bathroom from BNL's excellent kids music CD Snacktime! Well, now he's back. Ed Robertston (Barenaked Ladies) - "I Can Sing"

Personally, though, I miss the banjo of the original, which just gives it an ever-so-slightly higher level of goofiness.

Interview: Steve Roslonek (SteveSongs AKA Mr. Steve)

Steve Roslonek, better known now as SteveSongs, now has a new role (or a new AKA) as Mr. Steve, one of the morning hosts on PBS KIDS, on which he performs interactive songs music about the day's theme. He also has a new DVD out, The Marvelous Musical Adventures. He's touring behind the DVD. There is no truth to the rumor that he is also playing on the Red Sox, but it does seem like Roslonek's got a busy, busy schedule right now. Nevertheless, he found a few minutes to chat with me recently. Read on for his musical background, how his Mr. Steve spots have evolved, and how being Mr. Steve is like visiting Canada. Zooglobble: What music did you listen to growing up? Steve Roslonek: Oh, Schoolhouse Rock, the Muppets, Sesame Street... My parents listened to everything from James Taylor to Motown, to Men at Work. What was your musical playing background?

Train Songs (Updated)

It's "Transportation Week" at Little Boy Blue's preschool, so I decided to put together a CD of transportation-related kids music to be played in his class. Man, was that hard work. I don't have anywhere near all my kids' CDs loaded on my hard drive, and even then, I had waaaay more good music than I could fit on a CD. (And, really, 2 CDs would've been overkill.) So I've decided to update my list of train songs for kids. If you've got more (and I know there are, there was only so much I could do), list 'em in the comments.

Add Josephine Cameron To The List of Zooglobble-Approved NPR Artists

Well, I guess technically speaking I had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Josephine Cameron's recording of "Long Track Blues" was heard on NPR last night as part of a discussion with Nikki Giovanni on her new book/CD collection Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration of Poetry With a Beat. But, hey, I did give Cameron's album American Songs Vol. 2 (and "Long Track Blues," first recorded for that CD) a good review last May, so that's got to count for something, right? OK, not really, but still, that's cool.