As a freelance writer, I take work where I can get it, and recently I’ve been getting the chance to dish on some of the finest modern kid’s music for Red Tricycle. This has tended to manifest itself as Top Concert Picks stories in the NYC and LA markets, but […]
It’d be a vapid time waste for me to wax poetic again about the albums you and your young children should own, so here’s how we’re going to do it for this Very Kindie Christmas Gift Guide. I’m going to break out CDs based on personality traits of children, some […]
**Post-Grammy Update** Huge congrats to the Okee Dokee Brothers for winning the 2013 Grammy Award (55th Annual Grammys) for Best Children’s Album. Their masterwork, Can You Canoe?, also took the top prize in the usually way more plugged-in Fids & Kamily Awards, marking the first time the Grammys and the […]
They are like children, difficult to pick a favorite. But behind closed doors, and in hush tones, I’d admit to you that this, the December 2012 episode, it my favorite installment of the OWTK KMM Podcast thus far. Hopefully you will find that the mix of (mostly) new songs from […]
The esteemed list of 15 was revealed this morning! The best kid’s CDs of the year (defined here as 11/1/11-10/31/12) as voted on by the judges in the annual Fids & Kamily Music Awards were announced on Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child today. Forget whatever crappy jewel cases sit […]
The Pop Ups are from Brooklyn, and Brooklyn, you may have heard, got its ass kicked by that bitch Sandy last week. The lights are slowly coming back on in New York City, but people are still in harms way. It is getting cold out there, y’all, and many, even […]
**This just in: The Family Fun Fest had been postponed until October 14th. More news as it comes in to OWTK.** With The Great Holtzie hosting and performing his stand up comedy for kids in between sets by kindie greats The Pop Ups, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo (both of whom […]
THE POP UPS “RADIO JUNGLE” It is awfully tempting to, when hearing a new album from a band you already have an affinity for, and hearing it as both fan and critic, to judge it solely or at least most prominently and immediately on a single, very rudimentary criteria: is […]
