You Know, for Kids

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

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

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...

It's not every artist—even in the famously diverse kids'-music field—who can move genre to genre and sound good in every one of them...

In covering kids' music, I've found quality of all kinds and genres, but I have to admit that I gravitate toward the stuff that, ev...

When I heard that Mick Cooke of Scottish band Belle and Sebastian had a children's album out, I was expecting something a little differ...

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...

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. ...

Tom Lehrer's occasional forays notwithstanding, I've never thought of science as particularly compelling musical subject matter. An...

Back when I included Lunch Mone y's latest album in my best-of-2010 list, I promised to give it a writeup of its own—only fair, since ...

It's a bit embarrassing how few live kids'-music shows my family has been to, given that I spend this much time writing about the s...

Just found out that one of our family's fave kids'-music groups is playing live in our area, and I wanted to make sure to get a bla...

As I've mentioned before, I don't feel confident that I'm seeing absolutely everything out there in kids' music, books, etc....

As I struggle to keep up with all the good kids' music that's come out this fall, I have two reasons to go with Maine's own Fla...

Sometimes I forget that not every parent is as immersed in the world of kids’ music as I am. Take Frances England, for instance: I sometim...

Seattle’s Brian Vogan is one of those makers of children’s music whose songs, if you don’t listen to the lyrics, sound like they could be ...

The all-star-musician benefit concept goes back years, of course, to George Harrison's Bangladesh concert, and a bit later the "D...

Most of the makers of kids' music I've written about here have been fairly established artists, with a proven track record of excel...