"Lucas!" - Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips

Artist: Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips

Song: "Lucas!"

Album: Ultramagnetic Universal Love Revolution

Description: Busy, busy, information overload, but it's nicely put together and, more importantly, is there any doubt that Mista Cookie Jar thinks Lucas is awesome?  No, no, there is not.

Source: YouTube

"Fall" - Orange Sherbet

Artist: Orange Sherbet

Song: "Fall"

Album: Delicious

Description: The next in the band's series of seasonally-appropriate food raps.  The bounty is here!  (Two or three days early, even.)

Source: Vimeo

"Dad Upside Down" - Hullabaloo

Artist: Hullabaloo

Song: "Dad Upside Down"

Album: Raise a Ruckus

Description: "Collage" spells backward just spells "egalloc."  Erm, that makes no sense.  Animation by Tonia Senoo.

Source: YouTube

"Sing Loud!" - Melissa Green

Artist: Melissa Green

Song: "Sing Loud!"

Album: Sing Loud!

Description: There's not too much about the title track from Green's forthcoming (July 31) album or its video that would mark it as being "kids' music."  Maybe the lyric, "stomp stomp stomp."  Or, in the video, Green dancing, apropos of nothing really, between two large pieces of construction equipment.  But it is a shiny, shimmery piece of kid-friendly pop with a chorus designed to lodge in the brains of all who hear.  And the video is polished to match.

Source: YouTube

"Out Standing" - Hullabaloo

Artist: Hullabaloo

Song: "Out Standing"

Album: Raise a Ruckus (to be released September 2012)

Description: Lead Hullabaloo-ster Steve Denyes shows that it's possible to have fun with a mere sprinkler in this video for the country-folk celebration of getting wet.  (As a desert resident lacking a pool, I can relate.)  I am worried about some of those instruments, though.

Source: YouTube