RAINBOW BEAST Releases Album 'Tales From the Monstrosity Scrolls'

Imagine if Yo Gabba Gabba and Tim Burton started a DIY, punk rock theater with The Flaming Lips as the house band, and you'll get some sense of Rainbow Beast.

Fall is the time to snuggle by the hearth (or the iPad, as the case may be), listen to tall tales, groove to some new music, and indulge in a feast of videos. For fall 2014, San Francisco-based band Rainbow Beast offers a harvest cornucopia of engaging recorded stories, ear catching songs, and eye catching videos created and inspired by kids ages 4 - 9 in the band's Rock Band Land program, embracing the long, rich history of dark, mysterious and playful subject matter à la The Brothers Grimm, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton.

Those with a visual bent will enjoy these weird and wonderful Rock Band Landvideos:

"Chef Shark's in a Pickle" -- HERE --
This song was written by Rainbow Beast and The Rock Band Land rockers inRock Band Land. 13-year-old Benjamin Mignola (a.k.a. Mistersuger) is the mastermind behind the animation.

"Fish Wife" -- HERE

"Happy Clouds" -- HERE

"Blue Paper Airplane" -- HERE

"The Truth About Polar Bears" -- HERE

Four most curious new stories and their accompanying songs include:

"Chef Shark's in a Pickle" -- STORY HERE and SONG HERE

"King Bobby of the Village Village" -- STORY HERE and SONG HERE

"Mistaken for Sasquatch" -- STORY HERE and SONG HERE

"The Ghosts of the Sea" -- STORY HERE and SONG HERE

In 2009, after years of performing as touring musicians, Brian Gorman (Tartufi) and Marcus Stoesz (The Music Wrong) created Rock Band Land, a San Francisco-based collaborative artistic education program where elementary-age kids explore their own creativity through original rock music, story writing, and storytelling. Anything can be addressed in a song: fear, death, or alienation, as well as love, joy, and endless kindness. The young rockers are challenged to be original, be kind, and to resist the urge to sing about poop. All Rock Band Land songs must, in the end, be positive and full of redemption and restoration.

The core members of Rainbow Beast act as interpreters, mentors and curators for the youth of Rock Band Land, and all the music that the band records and performs was written with the Rock Band Land Rockers.

To date, Rainbow Beast & The Rock Band Land Rockers have produced over 150 original songs and stories. Children everywhere are encouraged to contribute toRock Band Land via The Rock Band Land Broadcast Podcast.

Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. best-selling author Daniel Handler) has joinedRainbow Beast's cheering section, summing up his enthusiasm for the band's new album Tales from the Monstrosity Scrolls: "If the Rolling Stones were in elementary school, if Tom Waits had a sleepover party, if Prince was a second grade teacher, they still couldn't make anything as awesome as this."

Tales from the Monstrosity Scrolls, is available from CDBaby, Bandcampand itunes.

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