Paste had the premiere, now OWTK can bring you the 1st video from Science Fair, the brand new benefit album from Spare the Rock Records (Many Hands: Family Music For Haiti) due next month. The video is for “I Am A Scientist”, which is a Guided by Voices song covered […]
Say hey to the best three minutes of you and your kid’s day — the stop motion, utterly brilliant new kid’s music video from Sugar Free Allstars. And I can help but wonder: we’ve got enough knights around here, why don’t I get a fancy omelet made to order in […]
Bright, sunny, and warm: those were my goals for the June episode of the hottest (why not?) kindie music podcast in all the land. I think I accomplished all three with these ten songs. Here’s the playlist for June, enjoy!: Sugar Free Allstars “All On A Sunday Afternoon” from All […]
I get oodles of emails every week from children’s musicians sending me links to songs and videos to sample and, potentially, write about here on OWTK. Just this morning I clicked on the new music video from Birdie Mendoza’s Birdie’s Playhouse and the Mouse, who was chillin’ in bed playing […]
In years past, I covered Kindiefest somewhat extensively upon returning home from Brooklyn. Not this time. I took very few photos, almost no video, and interviewed not a single soul, not formally anyhow (Dave Loftin from the Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl had the great idea of conducting and recording gorilla […]
Even during my self-imposed month long sabbatical, I was still working to raise awareness of The Golden Age of Family Music. Proof? How’s about this gigantic Top 25 Kid’s Bands piece for Time Out New York Kids. Let the debate begin! Who did I omit? Who doesn’t belong on the […]
What? You expect a published playlist sooner than 24 days after the podcast is live on iTunes? Phooey! Here’s what you missed or already enjoyed or didn’t care for (impossible) on April 1st: The Pop Ups “Box of Crayons” from “Radio Jungle” Duke Otherwise “Lonely King of the Jungle” from […]
Baseball, uncontrollable sneezing, and Kindiefest. This is what Spring has come to mean to me over the past several years. The final leg of that seasonal trilogy will take place this month when the most respected bands, artists, players, and voices in the independent kid’s music scene – and, um, […]
