Listen To This: "Baby Loves Disco" - Various Artists (King Britt)

Need to take a dance break? Baby Loves Disco rides (sashays? boogies?) to the rescue, streaming the Baby Loves Disco soundtrack for your family's listening (and booty-shaking) pleasure. Curated by DJ King Britt, it's good stuff, featuring some familiar dance floor tunes like "We Are Family" and "Shake Shake Shake" as well as some new stuff. Stream (or purchase) the album below.

Listen To This: "Sing With Me" - Haley Bonar

It made my list of 2010's best kids music albums, but in my review of Haley Bonar's Sing With Me EP, I couldn't provide listening links. Bonar's now rectified that -- you can stream the whole darn thing:

And, what's this? Another new album from Bonar?
That's right -- it's Bonar's recently-released all-instrumental album LeO. There's nothing kid-focused here, but it is a bit dreamy and guaranteed to be curse-word-free.

Listen To This: "Silent Night / Sing a Song of Christmas Cheer" - Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke

Given that Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke's Rise and Shine was my second favorite kids music record of 2010, you would expect that I'd treat the news that they'd recorded a couple Christmas tunes for Little Monster Records with great excitement.

Even better, the tunes themselves don't disappoint. You will not dance to another Christmas song with more abandon than to "Sing a Song of Christmas Cheer." And their take on "Silent Night" is somehow simultaneously a little punk and a little reverential. Together they're just $1.29...

And if you're not sure about it all, for the price of an e-mail, pick up "Silent Night" for free using the link below...

Share: "K.I.D.S." - Luv Clowns

Trying to explain Luv Clowns is not the easiest thing to do. Or, rather, doing so makes the project sound really, really odd. Which it isn't. Quite.

So, simply put, Luv Clowns consists of four well-known Memphis musicians - Harlan T. Bobo, Doug Easley, Alex Greene, and Tim Prudhomme - whose album was released late last month on Goner Records. Oh, and they all dress up in clown costumes when performing. I'm not sure if it's a kids music album for adults, or an adult album (relatively) safe enough for kids, but I do know that the song below, "K.I.D.S.," is a bunch of fun. Stream or download it below, courtesy of Goner.

Luv Clowns - "K.I.D.S." [mp3]

Listen To This: "Old MacDonald... Zulu Style" - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

The South African men's vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo is probably most familiar to American ears from their appearance on Paul Simon's Graceland album, but the group founded by Joseph Shabalala has been singing for about fifty years now. Songs from a Zulu Farm is their next album. It's due out next month and it's essentially a kids music album -- stories in songs from the youth of the group's members. This track off the upcoming album is "Old MacDonald... Zulu Style" and, yeah, Old MacDonald has moved his farm to Africa. It's charming.

"Old MacDonald Zulu Style" by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Photo credit: Luis Leal