Share: Hey Pepito! EP - Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke

Have you had your coffee yet? Your kids had their chocolate milk? No? Well, don't worry about it. Just stream the first song on this new EP from Key Wilde and Mr. Clarke, you'll all be ready to conquer the world. (Or at least power your bike up the hill.) Titled Hey, Pepito!, the 6-song EP features four new songs, including the aforementioned title track, the only-slightly-less hyper "Don Mario's Song," "Talking Big Pet Pig," which is, well, the story of the "Big Pet Pig" as told by Bob Dylan, and a very sweet "Summer Lullaby." (It also features "It's So Good" and "Mary the Fairy.") The EP is officially released July 1, but you can stream it below.

Video: "Green Eyes" - Egg

It's been awhile since we've heard from Jeff Fuller's LA band Egg, but the wait for new music is almost over. Their new album Hard Boiled is due out shortly, and the first video from the new album is out. It's for a slow, simple song called "Green Eyes." It's also a slow, simple video featuring what must be at least a hundred photographs stitched together in an almost hypnotic very-slow-moving movie (or very-fast-moving slideshow). Egg - "Green Eyes" [YouTube]

Please Release Me: May 2011 Edition

Time for my updated list of new and upcoming releases. (Last month's list is here.) As always, if I've listed you on here and gotten something wrong (or something not ready for primetime), let me know and I'll edit or delete it. And if you're not on here and think you should be, drop me a line, too, and I'll get you added for the next iteration. I'm also going to try to update the list by putting additons in bold and changes to previously-mentioned items in italics. (We'll see how that goes next month...) Lucky Diaz: O'Lucky Day! (May 10) Readeez: Readeez Vol. 3: Knowledge is Good (DVD, CD, May 13) Alex the Seal: Kids' Club (May 13) The Secret Mountain - Un Pato en Nueva York (Duck in New York City) (book/CD, May 15) Kidz Bop - Kidz Bop Sings Monster Ballads (May 17) The Learning Station - #1 Best Kid’s Songs (May 19) Mister G - Bugs (May 22) The Deedle Deedle Dees - Title TBA (Hamlet album, May?) Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke: Hey Pepito! EP (this month?) Egg: Hard Boiled (spring) Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of Jimi Hendrix (spring) Hullabaloo - Road Trip (June 1) Recess Monkey: FLYING! (June 21) Putumayo Kids - Kids World Party (June 28) Rock the Cradle - Dreamin' with Def Leppard (June 28) [new lullaby series from Tor Hyams' Happiness Records feat. Def Leppard band members] Charlie Hope: Songs, Stories and Friends: Let's Go Play! (June) Eric Herman: The Elephant (DVD, national release July) Moey's Music Party: Happily Ever Moey! A Fairy Tale Lark in Central Park (DVD, July 12) Laurie Berkner - Party Day (DVD, July 26) Hipwaders - Golden State (Aug. 2) The Jimmies - Practically Ridiculous (Aug. 16) Central Services Board of Education: Title TBA (summer) Rocknoceros: Colonel Purple Turtle (Sept. 13) Caspar Babypants - Away We Go! (Sept. 20) Andy Z The Grand Scream of Things (Oct. 4) [produced by Tor Hyams] Randy Kaplan: Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie (fall?) Hope Harris - Picasso, That's Who (fall) Milkshake: Title TBA plus Holiday Album Title TBA (Fall 2011) Other 2011 albums: Ah-Choo, Alastair Moock, Peter Apel, Funky Mamas, Dan Zanes, Big Don, Mr. Richard, Chuck Cheesman, Ratboy, Jr., Todd McHatton, Jim Gill. Also, Rockabye Baby for Van Halen, The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Madonna.

This Cover Art is FLYING!

Ah, Recess Monkey, look what you've done now. You've proven beyond all doubt that Mayor Monkey is indeed your secret weapon. Clearly the slightly bumbling and affable nature of Hizzoner is just a front, judging by the cover of the band's upcoming release FLYING!. That's a great photo, boys. (The rest of the album art is from Jarrett Krosoczka, creator of the Lunch Lady comics). Tracklisting for the Tor Hyams-produced album, due out June 21 -- along with the listing of a gazillion guest stars -- is after the jump.

Please Release Me: April 2011 Edition

Another month, another list of new and upcoming releases. (Last month's list is here.) As always, if I've listed you on here and gotten something wrong (or something not ready for primetime), let me know and I'll edit or delete it. And if you're not on here and think you should be, drop me a line, too, and I'll get you added for the next iteration. Joanie Leeds: What a Zoo! (April 12) Brady Rymer: Love Me For Who I Am (April 12) [features duet with Laurie Berkner] Azam Ali: From Night to the Edge of Day (April 12) Daddy A Go Go (aka John Boydston): Grandkid Rock (April 19) Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of the Flaming Lips (April 26) Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke: Hey Pepito! EP (mid-April) Eric Herman: The Elephant (DVD, national release April) Randy Kaplan: Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie (April) Tom Chapin: Give PEAS a Chance (May 3) Lucky Diaz: O'Lucky Day! (May 10) Moey's Music Party: Happily Ever Moey! A Fairy Tale Lark in Central Park (DVD, May 10) Readeez: Readeez Vol. 3: Knowledge is Good (DVD, CD, May 13) Egg: Hard Boiled (spring) Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of Jimi Hendrix (Spring) Recess Monkey: FLYING! (June 21) Charlie Hope: Songs, Stories and Friends: Let's Go Play! (June) Central Services Board of Education: Title TBA (summer) Rocknoceros: Colonel Purple Turtle (Sept. 13) Andy Z The Grand Scream of Things (Oct. 4) [produced by Tor Hyams] Milkshake: Title TBA plus Holiday Album Title TBA (Fall 2011) Other 2011 albums: Ah-Choo, Alastair Moock, Peter Apel, Funky Mamas, Dan Zanes, Hipwaders, Big Don, Mr. Richard, Chuck Cheesman. Also, Rockabye Baby for Van Halen, The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Madonna.

Zooey Goes All Pooh...y

OK, I know that what I'm about to write is just my attempt to spruce up a press release and give it a fun and slightly ironic spin. But. Zooey Deschanel! Winnie the Pooh! Really, that's almost worth the exclamation points. So Disney is releasing a new movie called Winnie the Pooh on July 15. And they've recruited "Actress/Musician/Singer/ Songwriter/Lumberjack" (OK, that last one wasn't in the press release) Zooey Deschanel to perform three songs for the film -- the "Winnie the Pooh" theme song, “A Very Important Thing to Do” and the original end-credit song “So Long,” written by Deschanel and performed with She & Him bandmate M. Ward. (She also lends backing vocals to a couple other songs.) I'll spare you the silly, gushing words from everyone to say only that Deschanel apparently plays the ukulele in the theme song. Why am I writing all this? Only because the few clips you can hear of "So Long" in the YouTube clip below make it seem like Deschanel was a great choice, a worthy successor to Jenny Lewis' work on the Bolt soundtrack.