After two years of filming elaborate dance numbers, miniature candy-carnivals, tap-dancing robots and poolside chickens, New York's underground rock band for kids, The Jimmies, whose sound New York Magazine describes as "bubble-gum-meets-indie," will unveil their much-anticipated Trying Funny Stuff DVD on November 3. Released on singer and band mastermind, Ashley Albert's own Pluckypea Records, the collection features The Jimmies' songs, music videos, a 45-minute live concert, karaoke sing-a-longs, a bonus live CD and a "Film 101" behind-the-scenes documentary on how the videos were made.
Trying Funny Stuff captures The Jimmies' signature blend of sophisticated imagery, laugh-out-loud humor and subtle lessons (like how to sneeze into your arm, set a tadpole free and layer in the wintertime).
Also on November 3, The Jimmies will make available nationally for the first time their Parents' Choice and Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award-winning debut CD, Make Your Own Someday. The critically acclaimed album-which was initially distributed out of Albert's living room-garnered national visibility as it hit 1 twice on Sirius/XM Radio's kids' music chart and earned the band spots performing at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Festival.
It's been three years since The Jimmies accidentally began, when someone tried to hire Albert's non-existent kindie-rock band. Instead of coming clean, Albert tried her hand at songwriting and flew down to Miami to produce the album with her dad and uncle-veteran record producers, Howard and Ron Albert-at their studio, Audio Vision. She then returned to New York, found a band, started dreaming up videos with Trying Funny Stuff director/co-producer, Michael Slavens, bought a bubble gun and a groundhog puppet and never looked back.
When she's not working on The Jimmies, Ashley spends her days as a voice-over actress for cartoons, commercials, books-on-tape & television shows. At any given moment, you might hear her telling you about the whole-grain goodness of Lucky Charms, the virtues of McDonald's Filet-o-Fish or what's coming up next on HGTV, MTV or Nickelodeon. She also has a lucky peanut. And it works.
Hey Jimmies, Thanks so much for adding us, greetings from Michigan! Tremendous music you are making , just lovely for any age listener!" Spanimals" is such a great songwriting and performance combination!!! Wow, thanks for the musical treats,and keep up the inspired work. Love from Tom and Linda (p.s. it is super nippy here in Michigan... but we are bundling up ;)
Hi Jimmies, you sent us your video which we loved and said we'd send ours to you if we ever made one. www. youtube. com/mightybuzzniks A hip hop-ish alphabet. Spot the weird Australian spellings. The Mighty bUZZniks
Oh, and if you're still looking for a keyboard player, I sent my boy Mike your way. I think he'd have a blast with you guys. ;)
Cheers, Lin
www. linmcewan. com Check out my first MUSIC VIDEOS at: youtube. com/linmcewan1 or www. linmcewan. com ...and if you like the videos, get the songs on Itunes Napster, Emusic, or AmazonMP3
Fun stuff, Jimmies! Congrats on the awards! We're Parents' Choice winners as well, and keeping our fingers crossed for the 08 Oppenheims! Have a good summer!
You know what's weird? "Do the Elfinant" was going through my head all week because "elafint" was one of my spelling words. But you never spell ellafitn in the song and I got it wrong on the test!
I heard a rumour that you may be headed down south. Please let me know if you play South Florida. Maybe you and Nick could do a double-header at my library!
We're snappy snackers...short little burst of fuel to keep us dancing! Our upcoming schedule will kind of be like eating on a roller coaster...we'll let you know how it goes:)
