The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow (Full Version) - Big World Audio Theatre

Artist: Big World Audio Theatre

Album: The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow

Description: The half-story/half-musical hybrid from the (very) multi-headed hydra that is Portland, Oregon's Big World Audio Theatre gets a limited-time giveaway.  That's right, for the month of August you can download their fine debut The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow.  It's worth more than that (throw in a couple dollars at least), but if you haven't had an opportunity to listen, take advantage of this.  (Also, below the Noisetrade widget, find a brief promo video the band made to introduce the album to newbies.)

Source: Noisetrade

Kick Out the Jammies Sampler

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Kick Out the Jammies

Description:  The 11-song sampler from Burniside Distribution is the second free Amazon sampler (here's the first from a couple years ago) from the Pacific Northwest distributor, and it's a solid collection, with great tracks from Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke, the Verve Pipe, Recess Monkey, Caspar Babypants, Cat Doorman, Readeez, and more.  In fact, you should probably have a lot of those tracks already, so get it for the ones you don't know (or your less-savvy friends who refuse to take your sonic advice).

Source: Amazon / Cool Mom Tech (who have been killin' it recently with kids music recs) 

Music Box New Zealand Kids Music Sampler

Artist: Various Artists

Album:  Music Box

Description: In conjunction with the announcement of the Children's Music Awards recently in New Zealand (Best Children's Music Album won by fleaBITE for Circus of Fleas ), APRA (the Australian/New Zealand equivalent of ASCAP) released a limited-time-only free download of 20 New Zealand kindie songs which competed for Best Children's Music Song at the awards.  There are a couple fleaBITE songs on there, of course, but you might find one or two artists that strike your fancy.  (I personally was intrigued by Chanelle Davis.)  But hurry -- it's only available through August 12

Source: Download the zip file here. 

Mixtape EP - Recess Monkey

Artist: Recess Monkey

Album: Mixtape EP​

Description:​ A 5-song sampler from the Seattle band from albums new ("Grandmom's House") and old ("The Sandbox Song").  A nice overview from kindie's most prolific band over the past 5 or 6 years.

Source: Bandcamp​

Groovin' in the Garden - Story Laurie

You can download five of the tracks from Story Laurie's recent album Groovin' in the Garden via Noisetrade for the price of a mere e-mail.  With Laurie McIntosh handling the vocals and songwriting, and a bunch of musicians including Dog on Fleas' Dean Jones on a kajillion instruments (and producing), it's a fresh (pun intended) take on food-friendly folk.