Artist: Hullabaloo
Album: Road Trip
Description: It's May, which means it's time to start thinking about road trips, traveling across the state (or even the country) to experience new things. The 2011 album from the San Diego-area band has a whiff of the open road that's a sweet match for your family's summer travels. (Original review here.)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Putumayo Kids (Various Artists)
Album: Australian Playground
Description: So there's a new Putumayo collection out May 27 from a land down under. It does not feature the Wiggles, which I suspect the Putumayo target audience is OK with. It does feature some usual Australian suspects ("Waltzing Matilda," natch), some omissions (no "Kookaburra"), and a bunch of folk-jazz artists (with a touch of "world music") who'll be new to the Northern Hemisphere.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Chicago Kindie Sampler
Album: Band Together
Description: Eight previously-unreleased tracks for $8 from eight Chicago-area musicians, including Poochamungas, Little Miss Ann, Super Stolie, Human-Tim + Robot-Tim, and more. Proceeds go to Chicago-area Intonation Music Workshop, which provides music education to area kids.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Rainbow Beast and the Rock Band Land Rockers
Album: Tales from the Monstrosity Scrolls
Description: Kids' songs written by kids, crafted by adults, sung (partially) by kids, sung (partially) and backed musically by adults. Fantastical in many senses of the word. (Read an interview with the band here.)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Caroline Herring
Album: I Will Go Into the Day
Description: A solid album of folk music for families, with a theme of exploring the world near and far gently but firmly threading its way through the entire 11-song set. Fans of her previous album for families, The Little House Songs, will find her strong voice and warm arrangements in fine form.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Various Artists (Minimúsica)
Album: Els Animals (Animals)
Description: You don't have to speak Spanish or Catalan to figure out that the third collection of kid-friendly indie-pop from Barcelona-based label Sones and their Minimúsica offshoot has an animal-based theme. As I noted in my review of the 2012 album, the fact that this album is a Spanish album means that the lyrics are a little more subtle and not so focused on teaching Spanish. (That may be a positive or a negative depending on your point of view. It's mostly positive from mine.) Continued fun from Spain.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Various Artists (Minimúsica)
Album: Els Aliments (Food)
Description: The second collection of kid-friendly indie-pop from Barcelona-based label Sones and their Minimúsica offshoot, this 2011 compilation focuses on transportation-based themes. I love "Autobús" but there are a lot of very fun tracks, even the ones about dreamboats, which I think might be stretching the definition of transportation just a bit. As I noted in my 2011 review of this album and its predecessor, these songs need to end up on a Putumayo collection somewhere. Another stellar collection of kindie for your bilingual preschooler. Or even your monolingual preschooler.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Various Artists (Minimúsica)
Album: Els Aliments (Food)
Description: The first collection of kid-friendly indie-pop from Barcelona-based label Sones and their Minimúsica offshoot, this 2010 compilation focuses on food themes. As I noted in my 2011 review of this album and its successor, these songs need to end up on a Putumayo collection somewhere. So much fun, without a doubt this is Spanish/Catalan kindie ("Cindie"?).
Source: Bandcamp
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