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kids' rock
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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...
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...
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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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...
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. ...
March 31, 2011
New Music: Grandkid Rock
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It was a little alarming to realize that anyone from the current wave of kids' musicians had yet released enough music to compile a gre...
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 ...
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 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 18, 2010
New Music: Sunny Day
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A good deal of the excellent kids’ music I hear these days is uptempo, upbeat, and just generally up. Sure, Recess Monkey will throw in a s...
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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 ...
September 15, 2010
New Music: Lemonade School
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The new wave of kids’ music has produced a number of fairly established artists by now, and parents can rely on a new album by almost any of...
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...
July 1, 2010
New Music: The Final Funktier
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It seems nearly every one of the top kids’-music artists either has a new album out or is on tour these days; I find myself struggling to ke...
June 18, 2010
New Music: Jungle Gym
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Having followed the kids’-music scene fairly closely for some years now, I sometimes forget that its foremost practitioners aren't in f...
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