OWTK Kindie Music News / Parenting Blog
on August 19, 2015 at 1:50 pm ×
Ears. Shove it straight into your ears. What? Did you think I was going somewhere else with that? The Not-Its! “Participation Trophy” — their fine song from their fine album KidQuake! — is all yours for FREEEEEE right now as a clever and sensible reaction to Participation Trophy-Gate spurred on […]
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on June 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm ×
The boys are back for another summertime adventure! This time, Recess Monkey take to the skies in a hot air balloon and you’re all invited on board…what must be the largest balloon basket in human history. Someone call Ripley or Guinness, or whoever is in charge around here! The album […]
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on January 5, 2015 at 10:32 am ×
Not everyone can get themselves and their little music lovers to the Emerald City (Seattle or Oz, frankly) to see Recess Monkey live in their most extravagant element, under the Teatro ZinZanni bigtop (which, frankly, could easily and happily exist in Seattle or Oz). Thankfully, there’s now a brand new […]
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on November 12, 2014 at 11:52 am ×
This song from Animal Tales, the new album by the incomparable Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke is my absolute favorite kindie tune of the moment. And that moment is going on 4 weeks old. There’s something quietly seductive about that Spanish acoustic lead guitar, dancing eloquently in the gaps, as […]
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on October 28, 2014 at 10:19 am ×
The NYC Dads Group gave me the opportunity to chat with kid’s music legend Dan Zanes recently, to discuss the evolving landscape of childhood in the big city and, similarly, how being a dad in the Big Apple has changed in the two decades since the famous crazy-haired kid’s rocker […]
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on August 25, 2014 at 11:09 am ×
To be honest, I’m not the type to spend too much time watching videos of any sort on the internet. It’s the contrarian in me. Lots of people do it? Ok, I’m going the other way. Therefore, I haven’t seen too many ALS Ice Bucket Challenges, but I cannot imagine […]
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on August 22, 2014 at 9:43 pm ×
A pair of new music pieces of mine were published today on Red Tricycle (National) and Cooper & Kid’s Catch E-Zine. I don’t write about kid’s music too much around here these days, as you probably noticed, but I’m still out there on the internets being a constant vocal champion […]
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on August 18, 2014 at 8:00 am ×
I don’t exactly do crafts. Blame my mom. There isn’t much in this world that gives me the twitches something awful quite like the sight of jar of glitter gone askew on a carpeted floor or paper shavings distributed evenly everywhere. I am far from the Mike Adamick-type. That dude […]