MR. RICHARD AND THE POUND HOUNDS “GARBAGE MAN” If you’re anything like me, you can easily envision a tune with that title by a band with that name being a crude blues song. But get your head out of the trashcan, son, this is kid’s music. Geesh. 😉 I had […]
IN THE NICK OF TIME “IN THE NICK OF TIME” You don’t hear a whole heck of a lot of U2 in kid’s music, but In The Nick Of Time’s self-titled arena rocker brings a little bit of Bono’s grandeur to music made for children. It doesn’t hurt that the […]
I guess it’s true; rabbit feet are good luck. “I Think I’m A Bunny”, Todd McHatton’s whacky duet with his adorable daughter, has bunny-hopped (or is that monster-marched?) into the #1 position on the Sirius/XM Kid’s Place Live kid’s music charts. The song is the final track on the CA-native’s […]
Shine and the Moonbeams, Billy Kelly and the Blah Blah Blahs, and The Plants will rock the 2nd WXPN Kids Corner Kid’s Music Fest at World Cafe Live @ The Queen in Wilmington, DE on Saturday, November 19th. Tickets are just $7 per person for three bands, oodles of arts […]
I posted this last year at this time and I’ll likely keep doing so every late-October until the end of time. Or the end of OWTK. Whichever comes first. Justin Roberts’ “Trick or Treat” is, simply put, the best Halloween song ever. Obviously I mean it, I wrote that exact […]
BANANA SLUG STRING BAND “TURTLE ATE A JELLY” When do I post about educational message songs? Hardly ever, actually. But when the music is as good as it is on “Turtle Ate A Jelly” I make an exception. Plus, I freakin’ hate plastic bags. This Caribbean island joint from the […]
Other than Barney Saltzberg, there’s not a whole lot of quality crossover between the worlds of kid’s lit and kid’s music. Little did I know, when I reviewed his fantastic debut kid’s book A Dog is a Dog, that author Stephen Shaskan is also a children’s recording artist. His songs, […]
Acclaimed kindie rock duo The Pop Ups have been dazzling packed houses in New York City and Los Angeles off and on for the past 18 months with their high-energy musical starring themselves and a handful of professional, Muppet Workshop quality puppets. The show centers around a noble quest to […]
