Artist: StevenSteven
Song: "The Unicorn and Princess Rainbow"
Album: Foreverywhere
Description: Steve Burns wearing a headband with a unicorn horn, Steven Drozd playing 3 instruments at once, and an epic story acted out by, what, 7-year olds? Psychedelic rock has never been so kindie.
Source: YouTube
Artist: The Okee Dokee Brothers
Song: "Somos Amigos"
Album: Saddle Up
Description: For the final album in their "Adventure Album" trilogy, the Okee Dokee Brothers headed west. As with their predecessors, this album also features some guest stars, including Carlos Medina y El Trio los Gallos. "Somos Amigos" is a simple bilingual folk song with a healthy helping of Tejano accordion, all of which is A-OK by me. There's not much to the video -- the duo and the quartet playing on a bridge that straddles (appropriately, given the subject matter and approach) the Rio Grande (albeit in Colorado) -- but since the Adventure Albums have always been as much about the Brothers meeting others as their own individual adventures, that seems appropriate.
Source: YouTube
Artist: Recess Monkey
Song: "Lighter Than Air"
Album: Hot Air
Description: "Penguinese" was the first video from the forthcoming album Hot Air, but "Lighter Than Air" is the first full song on the album. If you listened to this track alone, you might be forgiven for thinking that it's nothing but a mellow '70s soft-rock fest. (Spoiler alert: it's not.) As for the video, it essentially summarizes the first 80% of Hot Air's accompanying DVD. (There's a plot! It involves penguins and balloons! Any more you'll have to find out for yourself, I'm not telling.)
Source: YouTube
Artist: Twinkle Time (feat. Mista Cookie Jar)
Song: "Kidz Rock"
Album: N/A (forthcoming 2015 album)
Description: I can't say that this is something I'd choose to watch repeatedly -- to me it is a sonic and (especially a) visual overload. The Los Angeles-based Alitzah Wiener (aka Twinkle Time) and her band, plus fellow SoCal artist Mista Cookie Jar, throw everything into the video (and song). But, man, in terms of an all-out kindie pop extravaganza -- EDM, hip-hop, pop all rolled into one -- it's on an entirely different level than most independently-produced kids music. (Listen to and purchase the track here.)
Source: YouTube
Artist: Koo Koo Kanga Roo
Song: "Fanny Pack"
Album: Whoopty Whoop
Description: If you had told me that I would be posting a video that includes the use of Comic Sans, I would not have believed you. But this lyric video for the first single from the Twin Cities' band forthcoming May 2014 album is so gloriously goofy (think of the song source), that I could not hold my churlish standards for long.
Source: YouTube
Artist: Alex Mitnick
Song: "Feelin' Fine"
Album: Love Songs for My Baby
Description: If there was ever a sun-dappled kindie video, this is it. And if there was ever a weekend during which the East Coast could use a sun-dappled kindie video, this is it. (Bonus: head here if you'd like to download a free copy of this song from Mitnick's upcoming solo album.)
Source: Vimeo
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