You Know, for Kids

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Having followed the kids’-music scene fairly closely for some years now, I sometimes forget that its foremost practitioners aren't in f...