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 […]
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 […]
The first ever Kindiecomm family music conference wrapped this past weekend and overflowed with beautiful moments, big and small, quiet and loud. The nature of conferences is such that every attendee has a different experience, engages in different conversation, and takes away different bits of inspiration and points to ponder […]
Would it have been better if they named it Peg + Cat’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? Yeah, slightly, but as is this Really Big Album from PBS Kids’ adorable-overload TV show PEG + CAT hits on all the right notes: Stunning cover art (even though it exists only in digital […]
Throughout my 20+ years as a passionate song spelunker and manic music consumer, I’ve discovered artists and albums and songs through a myriad of ways: college radio, zines, friends, opening acts, liner note thank yous, Pitchfork, Daytrotter, record store sound systems, show posters, and countless other ways I cannot even […]
Flying bird mustaches, singing mermaids, and a lyric about “raising the status of my rookie card” are just a few of the delights that await you inside the newest video from the L.A.-based kindie superstar known as Mista Cookie Jar. The video is a handcrafted, paper mache beaut that took […]
Discover, enjoy, stand and admire, and fall in love with the thirteen best kid’s and family children’s albums of the year 2013.
The votes have been tallied and the 2013 Fids & Kamily Award winners announced. I unveiled my personal Top 10 (which, incidentally, included one album not technically eligible…oops) on this week’s episode of the OWTK Radio Hour…in 30 Minutes. Listen to that here. Just as it was last year, I […]
