Video: "Pancake Smackdown" - Gustafer Yellowgold

Rejoice! It's time for another humorous Gustafer Yellowgold video with food as its subject!

This time it's "Pancake Smackdown," and it's the first, er, taste of the forthcoming Gustafer Yellowgold CD/DVD set Gustafer Yellowgold's Year in the Day, out April 3. It features assorted pancake-related violence, so the gluten-intolerant may want to look away.

Gustafer Yellowgold - "Pancake Smackdown" [YouTube]

Monday Morning Smile: "Needing/Getting" - OK Go

If OK Go's songs were as consistently entertaining as their videos, they would be the world's biggest band. As it stands, they are merely the world's biggest conceptual artists. I mean, they created a video in which they play the music by driving through a race course and having implements attached to their car play instruments played along the course. And they got a corporate sponsor to pay for it. So, in case you haven't seen it yet...

OK Go - "Needing/Getting" [YouTube]

A bonus OK Go video after the jump...
The band also appeared on Sesame Street recently, and while the video (and song) they did for that show isn't quite as cool, your family's toddlers will probably dig it:

OK Go - "Three Primary Colors" [YouTube]

Video: "My Flea Has Dogs" - Caspar Babypants

Whew. It had been more than three months since the last video from Caspar Babypants. I was kinda getting worried.

But never fear, CB's back with a retro-styled video for "My Flea Has Dogs" from his latest album Sing Along!. Lots of dogs. And one flea.

Caspar Babypants - "My Flea Has Dogs" [YouTube]

Video: "Humpty Dumpty" - Groove Kid Nation

I'm posting this video from Music in Motion, the latest album from Groove Kid Nation (the creation of L.A. musician Rodney Lee) mostly for one reason: the stinky face.

The animation's OK (a bit static, but it'll do in a pinch), and the groove on this retelling of the story of Humpty Dumpty is pretty funky, but, like I said, it's all about the stinky face. How often do you get to learn about the stinky face in a musically-appropriate manner?

Groove Kid Nation - "Humpty Dumpty" [YouTube]

Monday Morning Smile: "Violet" - Jeremy Messersmith

Take one longtime fan of Twin Cities musician Jeremy Messersmith, mix in a video featuring kids having a snowball fight, and what you get is a "Monday Morning Smile."

The video's for "Violet," one of several great tracks off his great 2010 album The Reluctant Graveyard. And, yeah, a snowball fight is actually kinda thematically appropriate. Keep the video in mind for this year's "Storm of the Century."

Jeremy Messersmith - "Violet" [Vimeo]