My girls and I are obsessed with Santigold right now. OBSESSED. My oldest and I are seeing her perform in Philly this coming Sunday night but until then we’re basically watching her incredible interactive video for “Can’t Get Enough of Myself”, the lead single from Santigold’s new album $.99, over […]
I still produce the monthly OWTK music podcast (new episode for April 2016 is now live!) but the volume of kid’s music being played in my home has decreased significantly over the course of the past few years. At the height of my and my family’s decade-long involvement in the […]
A new indie kid’s song popped up into my inbox late last night. It was from an artist I’d covered once or twice in the past but despite my familiarity, didn’t have the highest of hopes for, which makes what would happen next even more surprising. A negative bias will […]
Do you like Billy Joel, Ben Folds and, also, the beeps and blips of modern pop music? Well boy o’ boy do I have a band and a new album for you to hear. I’ve long been a fan of Jukebox the Ghost, a District by way of Philly trio, […]
I sometimes think my family should keep an apartment in L.A. Nothing fancy. I’m not talking Los Feliz or Santa Monica. I’d settle for Culver City. It’s not that we’re jetsetters, not exactly although we’re inching closer to that kind of ridiculous status with what we have planned for the […]
There’s more to the title of this record than four letters stuck in CAPS LOCK. It’s not a corporate acronym but a humble four letter word that is both a whispered prayer and bellowed marching order: HEAL. The new album from Strand of Oaks, Timothy Showalter’s one man Philly band, […]
On the way down to see HAIM, the middle show in my biographical month of music, the Bear says to me, “Daddy, I’m going to miss doing this when [Mouse] gets older.” She went on to elaborate, “when she grows up, she’ll want to come out with us and it […]
If you don’t mind jumping around a bit with me, all Quantum Leap style, I’d very much like to tell you how May is set up to be a biographical month of live music for me. Will you be my holographic best bud for the next 300 words? May starts, […]
