How's this for sharing? Maine's Flannery Brothers celebrate the release of The New Explorers Club by releasing yet another album. For free. That's right, for a limited time, you can download Dance Songs for Silly Kids. It's a track-for-track collection of remixed songs from Love Songs for Silly Things (the last song on the new album is essentially new). It's really goofy, but that's what your kids need sometimes. Stream or download it below...
Share: "Car Seat" - Keller Williams
"Car Seat" is one of the few tracks off Keller Williams' upcoming family album Kids that isn't getting radio airplay this weekend. But that's OK, Williams has got you covered -- grab the track for the price of an e-mail using the handy Topspin widget below... (For those of you convinced already, Williams has a pre-order contest going on with some more unusual prizes...)
Share: "Down in the Backpack" - Bill Harley
Most Bill Harley material is good stuff, so even a random free track from him would have a good chance of getting mentioned here.
But "Down in the Backpack"? One of Harley's most well-known songs? Almost guaranteed to get a grin out of your 7-year-old? (And probably you, too?)
Just go here, where "Down in the Backpack," the title track from Harley's 2001 album, is free 'til the end of the month.Share: "Jump So High" - Jeremy Plays Guitar
NYC musician Jeremy Zmuda, AKA Jeremy Plays Guitar has his new album Use Your Words coming out Sept. 28th and while he's had some sound clips from the new album up for a little while, I think, the offer of a free track from the upcoming album is new. While the album features languorous Madeleine Peyroux on a track (not to mention Kirk Douglas from the Roots), the free track -- "Jump So High," featuring Joy Dragland on vocals -- is anything but languorous. Ska for the wee ones -- pick it up here.Share: "Oh, John the Rabbit" - Elizabeth Mitchell
As previously noted, Elizabeth Mitchell will be releasing her next family music album, Sunny Day, later this year, October 5, to be exact. And she's just released a super-cute video for one of the tracks on the new disk, "Oh, John the Rabbit." You can view the video here. It's pretty simple, with Elizabeth, Daniel, Storey, bunnies, and a bunch of other kids. "John the Rabbit" is a pretty classic call-and-response song, one that Mitchell recorded on her very first kids album, You Are My Flower. Storey wasn't even born when that album was released more than a decade ago; to have her join in on this version seems pretty cool.
Anyway, if you like the video, you can also download the mp3 from that page as well for the price of an e-mail.
Update: The video's now on YouTube...
Elizabeth Mitchell - "Oh, John the Rabbit" [YouTube]
Share: "Welcome To Our School" - The Not-Its! (World Premiere)
A little bit crucnchy, a little bit sweet, they're sorta like those new pretzel-based M&Ms except they come from Seattle. It's the Not-Its!, and this is a world premiere from their upcoming album Time Out to Rock, out July 20. The song's "Welcome To Our School," and features no small amount of rock and no small amount of inclusiveness either. Stream or download it here, courtesy of the band... but just for the next week. Enjoy! [Ed: And the week's over...]
