Video: "Dream Too Much" - Amy Lee

Dream Too Much album cover

Clearly Amazon Music is moving full steam ahead in developing a label of exclusive releases.  They started out slowly, but now in addition to The Pop Ups and Recess Monkey, they've got Lisa Loeb, The L (featuring Bob Schneider), and Amy Lee.  The singer (probably best known as the leader of Evanescence) is a parent of a toddler, and in a couple weeks she's releasing Dream Too Much, her first album for kids.

The title track is whimsical and, befitting a song about dreams' often off-kilter narratives, filled with surreal lyrical imagery.  That surreal imagery is made real in her new video for the album's title track.  I like the song, but the paper-based images are even better.

Amy Lee - "Dream Too Much" [YouTube]

Video: "Rock, Paper, Scissors" - The Not-Its!

Ah, now that it's nearly September, kids are back in school and settling disputes on the playground in the time-honored tradition of rock, paper, scissors.  Seattle's The Not-Its! have an instructional video for your kids (for "Rock, Paper, Scissors," off their excellent 2013 release KidQuake!) that illustrates the game.

Plus: bonus devil's rock sign.  Thankfully, the contest doesn't go full Sharks-Jets.

The Not-Its!  - "Rock, Paper, Scissors" [YouTube]