Artist: Moona Luna
Album: Vamos, Let's Go!
Description: The second album from bilingual rockers Moona Luna takes a more retro sound (think Ritchie Valens), but maintains the formula of splitting its lyrical efforts for the preschool set between English and Spanish. Still one of the few bilingual bands whose efforts are worthwhile even if raising bilingual kids isn't near the top of your set of educational goals. (Review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Dean Jones
Album: When The World Was New (Sampler)
Description: Five tracks from the forthcoming solo album from Dog on Fleas mastermind Dean Jones. As with a lot of Jones' work, solo and with the Fleas, the new album is a little wasabi in a world of ketchup. I like ketchup a bunch, too, don't get me wrong, but it's good to have some other condiments. Make sure you check out the educational/philosophical slow-jam of "Prehensile Grip."
Source: Soundcloud
Artist: Alice DiMicele
Album: If I Were an Otter: Songs for Kids of All Ages
Description: The album won't be out 'til June, but Oregon artist DiMicele's put the title track up on Bandcamp for your (our? my?) listening pleasure. The album will be a mixture of traditional folk songs along with some originals, like this one.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Album: Love Me For Who I Am
Description: On his celebrated 2011 album, Rymer manages the tricky feat of writing an album about the autistic experience without limiting its appeal to that narrowly-focused crowd. It celebrates people in all their forms and predilections and aversions. Rymer's sunny roots-rock musical bed helps the understanding go down easy. (Review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Sharron Kraus
Album: Songs for the Twins
Description: Kraus is an English folksinger who's also spent some time in Philadelphia. This album was originally released 8 years ago but is getting a digital spin. It's a collection of nursery rhymes and folk songs, many -- but not all -- of which will be familiar to parents (or those who remember their childhood). Why would I suggest you give this album a spin when you've probably heard these songs dozens of times before? Because there's an eerieness and deliberate anti-modern sound to the album that is uncommon in today's kids' music. It's cleverly arranged, but one of the strengths of this album is that many tracks sound like they could have been recorded 250 years ago.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Charity and the JAMband
Album: Family Values
Description: Peace, love, and understanding -- and a healthy helping of RAWK -- from the Bay Area jam-band (and JAMband).
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Album: Easy
Description: The debut kids album from the kid-hop king, instantly catchy and endlessly inventive. "Luck" was Skidoo's first big break, and it has all the trademarks of the best of his work -- deft wordplay, positive but realistically so, and a mix of instruments and styles. Don't pigeonhole it as a "kid-hop CD," it's a "really good CD, period." (Original review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: The Sweet Colleens
Album: The Monkey Dance (All the Kids Are Doin' It!)
Description: The Bandcamp page for the Twin Cities band tags their music as "fiddle-fueled accordion-infused celti-cajun folk pop." So I guess this is "fiddle-fueled accordion-infused celti-cajun folk pop... FOR KIDS!" A hodge-podge of styles, yes, but also playful at times. (Original review)
Source: Bandcamp
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