At this point, I’m not sure anymore who likes Bunny Racket more, me or my son. The Pecan — about to turn three in less than a week’s time — was duly transfixed yesterday when I showed him the Australian kid-friendly heavy rockers’ video for “Moon Buggy,” which comes from their new album, Bunny Racket in Space, and as ever from my own point of view, I couldn’t help likewise appreciating the song’s complete and total lack of pretense. They’re not pretending fun doesn’t exist or that making and playing music together isn’t fun. And they’re engaging their audience without dumbing down the material. It’s simple but not at all unclever, talking about moon buggies carrying balloons and riding into the night — the dark side of the moon, in other words — and all that.

Along with Bunny Racket‘s take on “Stagger Lee,” and other recent clips like “Rock Like an Animal” and the perhaps-forever-on-regular-rotation “Woolly Mammoth on a Motorcycle,” the “Moon Buggy” video continues to serve as a fitting argument that whichever streaming service it might be — Netflix, Amazing, Hu-ever — should immediately set about financing a Bunny Racket show based around these songs. I have to imagine you could get a whole season out of Bunny Racket in Space. Plus you’d have cameo opportunities for the likes of Brant Bjork and Ed Mundell! And then in 25 years they can do a gritty reboot for the adults who were the kids who watched the original and everyone can make even more well-deserved money.

I’m not even asking for an executive producer credit. Just make it happen.

Enjoy the video:

Bunny Racket, “Moon Buggy” official video

2020. Wow.

If nothing else, it really has been an incredible year for space travel. And that is exactly what these punk-rock bunnies have been doing. Travelling the outer reaches of the Solar System, they searched for a new sound to share with planet Earth’s radical kids. The mission has been successful. With a little help from some like minded space rockers – Brant Bjork (Kyuss/Fu Manchu) and Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet), the intergalactic stage has been set for a new chapter in the Kids rock ‘n’ roll playbook.

Now Bunny Racket are back from outer space with a brand new album and the first of a new series of music videos!

Bunny Racket In Space – this new album is out of this world!

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Submitted for your approval or whatever, I humbly give you the following lyrics to Bunny Racket‘s final verse of “Rock Like an Animal”:

Rock like an animal
Shake your head, jump around
Rock like an animal to that sound
Rock like an animal
Rock like an animal, it’s easy to do
Rock like an animal the whole day through

Got all that? Cool. Because I want you before you click play on the video below to imagine The Ramones singing them. You can do it, right?

Cool. Now imagine Chuck Berry — or, to be more timely, Little Richard — singing them. You can do that too, right? Of course.

Now imagine a dude from Australia in a giant rabbit suit and a patch-laden battle fest singing them in a quarry while someone in a bear costume (the bear has featured in other videos; it’s not out of nowhere) dances on top of rocks and kids and the three-piece Bunny Racket band all jump around and do various animal-themed dance moves. Jump like a kangaroo, stomp like an elephant, creep like a pussycat.

I submit the genius of what King Bunny and Company do is that he doesn’t dumb down rock and roll for a child audience, he takes the very root of what’s always been righteous about rock — its ability to move the listener; “it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it” — fuzzes it up and repurposes it to suit the all-out fun being had. The toddler in my household requests Bunny Racket‘s “Woolly Mammoth on a Motorcycle” video daily. I haven’t shown him this one yet, but you can bet your ass it’s going on the playlist. It’s a fandom we can share.

Bunny Racket‘s next album is currently in the mixing stage and though of course everything’s up in the air, I’d imagine a release sometime before the end of the year isn’t unreasonable. When I see more, I’ll let you know.

Enjoy the clip:

Bunny Racket, “Rock Like an Animal” official video

Rock Like An Animal! (filmed and edited by Byron Video and graded by Billy Wychgel)

The latest video from Bunny Racket is up on our YouTube channel!

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More Rock than a rock quarry!

Bunny Racket is here to rock you. Whether you are 3 or 103 years old, you will not be able to resist the beautiful madness of King Bunny and his gang of fluffy punk rock friends.

With a line-up featuring members of The Vines, Goons Of Doom and Wolfmother, Bunny Racket serves up real rock’n’roll for everybody. So get loose, get nostalgic and get into it… because it truly is on for young and old.

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I played the new Bunny Racket video for The Pecan, and he was coming up on naptime but still kind of into it, seeing the Australian, costumed kids’ heavy rock outfit for the first time. Bunny Racket, though directed at children, might be a little old for him yet, but he did a little dance and that usually means he’s into what’s going on. At least this wee. I’m sure next week it’ll mean something else. The dance of poopy tragedy, or some such.

Anyway, we were talking about new Bunny Racket. I don’t know where they’re at with the tv series or anything, but it seems to me that Netflix would only be dumbassed if they didn’t pick that one up and roll it out. It’s a dude in a battle vest and a bunny costume. I mean, seriously, what more do you want of television than that. Sign it up. Two seasons. If you have to raise my account cost another dollar every six months to make it happen, so be it.

The PR wire brings an update:

New Bunny Racket release!

Affectionately known as ‘the Motorhead of kids bands’, Bunny Racket is bringing rock to the kids.

Plain and simple!

But it isn’t just the little kids that we have in mind. Big kids, we’ve got you covered too!

Recorded with Brant Bjork in Los Angeles, this new music video for ‘We Want More!’ is a reminder of why we are doing all of this. A trip down memory lane to dig on all the things that made being a kid so great!

The series…

We raised over $50,000 through our Kickstarter campaign to create a couple of banging pilot episodes for the Bunny Racket series. Well, the pilots are finished and the Bunny Racket team have been busy pitching this series to networks and investors in every burrow, near and far!

The Bunny Racket series delivers electrifying, live action awesomeness in a super fun series that follows the musical adventures of King Bunny and his quest to bring rock ’n’ roll to all the boys and girls of the world, one hard-rockin’ song at a time.
80’s rock nostalgia at it’s best with a magical blend of Sesame Street going head to head with MTV!

2018 has been massive for the Bunny Racket Live show! Be sure to come along to a gig when we are playing near you!

Bunny Racket live:
October 7th – Byron Theatre, Byron Bay.
October 31st – Halloween at Kingscliff Beach Hotel.
December 7th – Alexandria Park, Sydney.
December 8th – Golden Age Cinema, Surry Hills.
More shows to be announced!

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Bunny Racket, “We Want More” official video

I love this. I love every second of it. I’m so on board with Bunny Racket that I might actually donate to the Kickstarter launched to continue the project and make more videos, and I almost never do that kind of thing (because I’m a bad person). It’s brilliant, it’s ostensibly for kids and it’s called “A Chicken is Not a Fruit.” The project, spearheaded by Australia’s Andy Walker, also involves Brant Bjork — who previously discussed it here — and Robby Krieger of The Doors, so I’m just going to assume Thunder Underground Studios was involved in some way, shape or fashion, since that’s usually how it goes, but wow, it’s so brilliantly and charmingly weird in a way that the best kids’ entertainment should be.

Lots of info follows, but I encourage you to watch the video as well to really get a sense of what the project is about, then go give it all your money at the crowdfunding link. You’ll probably want to do that anyway. Behold Bunny Racket:

Introducing.. BUNNY RACKET

Created by Andy Walker feat. Brant Bjork (Kyuss) and Robby Krieger (The Doors)

There’s a new rabbit bringing some rock’n’roll to the kid’s entertainment patch. His name is King Bunny and his band is BUNNY RACKET.

Today Bunny Racket officially releases its first single, a bass heavy thumper called ‘A Chicken is not a Fruit’. Check it out…

‘A Chicken is not a Fruit’ is a taste of things to come, including an album and an online music video series that follows the adventures of King Bunny – a guitar wielding, skateboard riding, nature loving rabbit with a passion for playing rock’n’roll… LOUD!

The creation of Australian musician Andy Walker, Bunny Racket’s forthcoming debut album ‘Rock’n’Roll Animals’ features the work of some pedigree rock rabbits with Walker’s mate Brant Bjork (Kyuss, Fumanchu) taking on drums and backing vocals, Robby Krieger of The Doors joining the studio line-up as lead guitarist and Sam Cutler, legendary tour manager for The Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead, adding spoken word.

And it doesn’t stop there. Hopping on stage with King Bunny is an all-star, revolving live line-up including members of The Vines, Wolfmother, Skunkhour and Grinspoon. They ruled Little Splendour at this year’s Splendour in the Grass and will soon hit the stage at Aussie kid’s festival Dress Up Attack.

The sound… Imagine the Ramones, KISS and AC/DC joining forces with The Cat in The Hat and you get an idea of where Bunny Racket sits on the musical spectrum.

“Rock’n’roll struck me like lightening when I was 12 and went to my first gig, the Ramones. I was struggling to see the band when some older guys, punks, saw me and put me up on their shoulders. The feeling of that experience has stayed with me. Music brings people and generations together.” said Walker.

It’s this idea of shared experience that brought Bunny Racket to life, driven by Walker’s fierce love for rock music and a yearning for kid friendly tunes that are relevant, positive, educational and inspiring. There are lessons to be learned in spelling, counting, colours, geography and of course music.

With ‘A Chicken is not a Fruit’ set to prick up the ears of both young and old, it’s time to bring Bunny Racket to life. Backed by a great crew and an epic soundtrack, Andy Walker and the team are ready to get filming, but they need help to make it happen.

Coinciding with the release of ‘A Chicken is not a Fruit’, a Bunny Racket Kickstarter Campaign launches today and will help fund the production and post-production phases of the first 4 episodes. Each episode will be released free to air via YouTube, and feature two music videos within each story. Please spread the word!

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Bunny Racket, “A Chicken is Not a Fruit”