You Know, for Kids

When I first heard that Elena Moon Park, one of the regulars in Dan Zanes 's band for some years now, was coming out with an album of ...

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...

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...

As many public radio stations mentioned at the time, this past July 14 marked the hundredth anniversary of Woody Guthrie's birth . Amo...

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 guess the first big wave of all-star music compilation albums for charity came in the 1980s, coming off the high-profile all-star singl...

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

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...

Spring brings many wonderful things each year, but I only recently realized that one of them is "new albums from all my family's ...

The good news first: The fourth album from the Okee Dokee Brothers, the guys who helped bring bluegrass into the modern kindie-music mix,...

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

The Good Ms. Padgett  is something of a throwback, in these days of ultrahip, genre-hopping children's music. Her second kids' CD, T...

The influence of bands like Vampire Weekend (and, in some cases, the Broadway show Fela! ) is widespread in today's music for kids, wh...

Putumayo 's compilations of children's music are such reliable standbys in the genre, so consistently good, that I end up never writ...

I'm a little late to the party, but in case anyone missed it, I wanted to point out the winners of the 2011 Fids & Kamily Music Awar...

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...

World music—a term no one really likes but no one has come up with a fully utilitarian replacement for, either—has always been a big part of...

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...