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kids' CDs
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October 3, 2012
New Music: Grammaropolis
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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...
September 21, 2012
New Music: Ozomatli Presents OzoKidz
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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...
August 30, 2012
New Music: Little Seed
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As many public radio stations mentioned at the time, this past July 14 marked the hundredth anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth . Amo...
July 27, 2012
New Music: Spicy Kid
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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...
June 13, 2012
New Music: Shake It Up! Shake It Off!
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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...
May 23, 2012
New Music: Make Believers
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Spring brings many wonderful things each year, but I only recently realized that one of them is "new albums from all my family's ...
May 18, 2012
New Music: Can You Canoe?
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The good news first: The fourth album from the Okee Dokee Brothers, the guys who helped bring bluegrass into the modern kindie-music mix,...
May 4, 2012
New Music: Invisible Friends
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Dean Jones is everywhere. In the kindie-music scene, anyway: Producing albums by leading lights of the genre like Recess Monkey , The Deed...
April 13, 2012
In Concert: Kindiefest 2012
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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...
March 20, 2012
New Music: The Little Red Hen & Other Stories
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The Good Ms. Padgett is something of a throwback, in these days of ultrahip, genre-hopping children's music. Her second kids' CD, T...
March 9, 2012
New Music: Can't Wait
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The influence of bands like Vampire Weekend (and, in some cases, the Broadway show Fela! ) is widespread in today's music for kids, wh...
February 19, 2012
New Feature: In the Moment
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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...
October 19, 2011
New Music: Things That Roar
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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...
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October 6, 2011
New Music: Little Nut Tree
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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...
June 24, 2011
New Music: Flying!
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Sting. Gene Simmons. Add to the list of schoolteachers-turned-star-musicians the kids'-music trio known as Recess Monkey. Okay, so mayb...
June 22, 2011
Interview: Recess Monkey
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Regular YKFK readers will already know of my enthusiasm for Recess Monkey, the prolific (album a year!) and astonishingly talented band f...
June 8, 2011
New Music: Love Me for Who I Am
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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.....
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June 3, 2011
New Music: Wanna Play?
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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...
May 18, 2011
New Music: Bugs
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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...
April 27, 2011
Now Playing: Sugar Free Allstars, Recess Monkey, Lucky Diaz...
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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. ...
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