You Know, for Kids

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...

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...

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...

Back in the anxious days before the arrival of my first son, I remember a work colleague who was already a parent asking me if I had any Dan...

Sting. Gene Simmons. Add to the list of schoolteachers-turned-star-musicians the kids'-music trio known as Recess Monkey. Okay, so mayb...

Regular YKFK readers will already know of my enthusiasm for Recess Monkey, the prolific (album a year!) and astonishingly talented band f...

I admit it: I hear alarm bells go off when I see a note on a kids' album stating that its songs were "inspired by the students at.....

Today's children's music is more and more geared toward a sound that both adults and kids will enjoy. And with an ever-increasing n...

Bugs, the second children's CD from Mister G (the nom du plume of former indie rocker Ben Gundersheimer) starts off like any other pl...

Wanted to do a quick roundup of some upcoming shows by some of the scene's top children's musicians for my readers in the NYC area. ...