The Ditty Bops bewitch their listeners with iridescent golden harmonies, playful storytelling, visionary lyrical worldview and genre-defying tunes. As environmental activists, the girls creatively explore inspiring ways to live responsibly in today’s world, including touring by bicycle, raising money for farmers and converting their concrete driveway at home into an edible garden. This track, Skinny Bones, is off their new self-released album Summer Rains, a special collectible cd package incorporating elements of storybook pop up and printed on recycled paper.

Sure, it's way rad how some rock stars are going carbon neutral: Coldplay planted some trees to offset production of their album X&Y; Dave Matthews made a megapurchase of offsets to make up for 15 years of hard touring. But a swingy little bluegrass band from Los Angeles called The Ditty Bops is rocking the whole low-impact thing even harder by riding their entire 2006 tour on bicycles.