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kids' pop
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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 21, 2012
New Music: In Tents
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I sometimes worry that my enthusiasm for Recess Monkey has reached a point of absurdity, but I come by it honestly: The Seattle "tea...
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...
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...
September 2, 2011
New Music: Hey, Pepito!
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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...
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August 17, 2011
New Music: The Golden State
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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...
July 22, 2011
New Music: Down at the Zoo
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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...
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...
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. ...
April 20, 2011
New Music: Songs from the Science Frontier
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Tom Lehrer's occasional forays notwithstanding, I've never thought of science as particularly compelling musical subject matter. An...
March 10, 2011
New(ish) Music: Original Friend
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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 ...
February 28, 2011
In Concert: Recess Monkey
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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...
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February 18, 2011
Now Playing: Recess Monkey
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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...
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December 23, 2010
2010 Wrap: Music
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As I've mentioned before, I don't feel confident that I'm seeing absolutely everything out there in kids' music, books, etc....
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November 23, 2010
New Music: The New Explorers Club (Plus, Free Music!)
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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...
November 11, 2010
New Music: Mind of My Own
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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...
October 7, 2010
New Music: Sing a Little Song
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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 ...
August 25, 2010
New Music: Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti
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The all-star-musician benefit concept goes back years, of course, to George Harrison's Bangladesh concert, and a bit later the "D...
August 17, 2010
New Music: Rock-n-Roll Recess
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Most of the makers of kids' music I've written about here have been fairly established artists, with a proven track record of excel...
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