You Know, for Kids

Full disclosure: I grew up a half-mile from Symphony Space on Manhattan's Upper West Side (I recall going to some of the very earlies...

When I first heard that Elena Moon Park, one of the regulars in Dan Zanes 's band for some years now, was coming out with an album of ...

Since I'm on a grammar kick of late , I should mention a second source of no-really-it's-fun learning on the subject that Dash has...

I'll admit to having been spoiled a bit by They Might Be Giants . It was hard not to be, when a band of which I had already been a lon...

As many public radio stations mentioned at the time, this past July 14 marked the hundredth anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth . Amo...

It's been a summer of plenty for our family when it comes to kids' music: Nearly all our favorite artists  have put out new albu...

I guess the first big wave of all-star music compilation albums for charity came in the 1980s, coming off the high-profile all-star singl...

I sometimes worry that my enthusiasm for Recess Monkey has reached a point of absurdity, but I come by it honestly: The Seattle "tea...

Twenty years ago, Seattle was the epicenter of new music for us Gen-Xers...so I suppose it's not surprising that in 2012, it would be...

Spring brings many wonderful things each year, but I only recently realized that one of them is "new albums from all my family's ...

The good news first: The fourth album from the Okee Dokee Brothers, the guys who helped bring bluegrass into the modern kindie-music mix,...

Dean Jones is everywhere. In the kindie-music scene, anyway: Producing albums by leading lights of the genre like Recess Monkey , The Deed...

A quick Friday bulletin to parents in the NYC area: The annual Kindiefest music conference is coming up later this month in Brooklyn, the w...

The Good Ms. Padgett  is something of a throwback, in these days of ultrahip, genre-hopping children's music. Her second kids' CD, T...

The influence of bands like Vampire Weekend (and, in some cases, the Broadway show Fela! ) is widespread in today's music for kids, wh...

You'll notice at the right here a new feature on this blog—one I've essentially ripped off wholesale from my friend and former colle...

Putumayo 's compilations of children's music are such reliable standbys in the genre, so consistently good, that I end up never writ...

I'm a little late to the party, but in case anyone missed it, I wanted to point out the winners of the 2011 Fids & Kamily Music Awar...

As I've mentioned before, it's always especially thrilling to get a great new children's CD from an artist I don't already k...

World music—a term no one really likes but no one has come up with a fully utilitarian replacement for, either—has always been a big part of...