Category archive: music

April 1, 2013

BAM Presents Baby Einstein On The Beach

OK, BAM's announcement of the world premiere of Baby Einstein on the Beach wins the day. Dovetailing the avant-garde mission of Next Wave with the curriculum of BAM Education, Glass' hypnotic score proves a natural tool for teaching kids...
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March 9, 2013

We Don't Need This Transportation: Nick Mason's 2001 E55 AMG Wagon

I, for one, did not know that Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was a classic car-collecting "petrolhead." But with 117,000 miles and an industrial strength bedliner like this, you can be sure that this RHD E55 AMG Estate he...
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February 1, 2013

This Russian Life

From WBEZ Chicago, this is Ira Glasnost. The public radio station's new ad campaign is encouraging listeners to make babies who will grow up listening to public radio and who will thus support their fundraising campaigns starting in 2032. In...
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December 24, 2012

Bun B's Rap Coloring & Activity Book

"Game is sad. He wants a new tattoo. Draw him one that covers up his butterfly." If ever a tumblr was destined for a book deal, it's Bun B's Rap Coloring Book. And of course, it happened the week...
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December 19, 2012

Monday In The Studio With Larry

List of TV Shows Mandy Patinkin ACTS In That I Have Not Seen Nor Do I Plan To, Ever 1. Chicago Hope 2. Homeland 3. "Children Will Listen," the finale from Stephen Sondheim's 1988 fairy tale mashup musical Into...
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December 18, 2012

The Youngest Youngerman

While flipping through an amazing new book on the life and work of the artist Agnes Martin the other night, I realized there is a kid in this random rooftop photograph [by Hans Namuth, but still]. In the mid-1950s...
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December 12, 2012

Cat Power On A Good Day

Here is Cat Power fake-bumming some 2nd graders right the hell out--until someone mentions pudding, and then they're all, "YAY!" The tiny cloud has moved on from their lives! I don't know, I guess I expected Cat Power to be...
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November 14, 2012

Adam Yauch Playground

The S.E.M. Ensemble has been performing experimental and modern music for over 40 years. This evening S.E.M. Ensemble tweeted that Palmetto Playground, the city park along State St & Columbia Place in Brooklyn Heights has been renamed Adam Yauch...
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October 22, 2012

Richard Prince Has A Bob Dylan Poster Dress.

I didn't notice it until Mondo reposted the images. But now that it's framed and seemingly tiny enough to be worn by a kid, I see that the artist Richard Prince has a Harry Gordon "Poster Dress" with Bob...
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October 19, 2012

Suspiciously Cute: BuzzFeed Kids, With Ze Frank

It's Ze Frank, so on the one hand, sweet. But also, what? I guess I'm just wondering what the SEO catch is. Or will be. But in the mean time, Baby Animals! SingAlong! [youtube via @felixsalmon]...
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October 1, 2012

Pappa The Rapper: Hatarake ECD

I don't read Japanese, but I smell DadWagon's influence... — Dadwagon (@dadwagon) October 1, 2012 Smells like Dadwagon spirit? Right generation, wrong genre. ECD is Yoshinori Ishida, one of the pioneers of underground Japanese-language rap. That's him up top...
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September 20, 2012

9yo Japanese Rockers Can't Get No Satisfaction BECAUSE THEY'RE NINE HELLO

Here is a Ryunosuke Bando, fronted by Osaka 3rd grader Yamagishi Ryunosuke, tearing it up on some random Korean variety show. I kept watching to see if they're just cold faking it like a mini Milli Vanilli, or to...
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August 31, 2012

One. One Muppeteer, RIP

Jerry Nelson, the veteran Muppeteer who created Count von Count, and various other Sesame Street characters from Sherlock Hemlock to Mr. Snuffleupagus, passed away last week at the age of 78. Which means we may never find out why he...
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August 18, 2012

Daddy Skills, By Sam D & DJ Dave

Damn, bro, I'm still trying to process the fact that DJDave, the killinest MC on the West Side of LA, who managed to rhyme with quinoa in "Whole Foods Parking Lot," is originally from Berkeley. Now you tell me...
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August 10, 2012

Very Superawesome

I'm sure there were some negatives that year, too, but 1973 was when Stevie Wonder was on Sesame Street....
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August 7, 2012

Mentos National Night: The Singaporean BabyMaker

I just, wow. I mean, I, SINGAPORE, people, land of caning and the One More Child Policy. I'm a patriotic husband You're my patriotic wife. I wanna book into your camp and manufacture LIFE. I can't wait to buy a...
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June 27, 2012

'It Was The Life Of The Times'

Because it's blowing my dadmind right now, here is an expanded quote from William Duckworth's interview with pioneering minimalist composer Terry Riley, who traded the VW Bus his young family was living in for a loft in SoHo:RILEY: [My] wife...
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June 21, 2012

Come On And Vogue, Kids!

Beauty's where you find it, Not just where you bump and grind it. Here is a kindergarten class performing Madonna's "Vogue." And here is a YouTube commenter commenting on it:Good to know there are people out there teaching their students...
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June 20, 2012

Wax, Max, Ill Tracks

Yesterday YouTube rapping twins Wax and Herbal T released a new single, "Milk In My Sippy Cup". Wax's and Yesica Rodriguez's kid [I'm guessing] Max plays all the instruments, which are masterfully remixed right in EOM and Andrew Kurchinski's...
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June 8, 2012

Remixster Rogers

Kudos to PBS Digital, whatever that is, for not trying it themselves, but instead getting the originator of the Profoundly Autotune The Childhood Icon genre, John D. Boswell of melodysheep, to remix Mister Rogers. Judging by the half million...
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May 30, 2012

Sesame Street Is Brought To You Today By The Letters GTMO

I realized this morning, when I turned off NPR for the third time on the way to preschool, that for a lot of information I want, regular, old linear media is annoying because it's too damn slow. And its...
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May 23, 2012

Sun Ra X Disney: Hallucinogenic Elephants On Parade

I done seen about everything when I seen Walt Disney outfreak Sun Ra. For the late intergalactic Jazz overlord's birthday, Dangerous Minds points to Sun Ra and the Arkestra's rendition of "Pink Elephants on Parade," which is synched up here...
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May 16, 2012

Doug Harvey's Kids Sound Exhibition On The Phone, At 323 Projects

Well I don't know how this got by me. Los Angeles-based artist/curator Doug Harvey organized "The Patter Of Tiny Brains," an exhibition of audio of or by children, for the phone-based art gallery, 323 Projects. Basically, you can call...
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May 7, 2012

Sesame Street X Beastie Boys

I can't, I won't, and I don't stop posting Beastie Boys mashups with kids TV shows. So here is Wonderful Creative's version of "Sure Shot," as performed by the cast of Sesame Street. Sesame Street Breaks it down [vimeo...
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April 30, 2012

Front Airbag Igniting, Very Very Frightening

Like you, I'm sure, my first reaction to seeing this dad leading his kids in a rousing rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the way to school in the morning was, "Screw the Disney-era Muppets, who needs'em?" And your second...
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April 27, 2012

I Hugged Myself Today, To See If I Still Feel

When I was getting ready to go to Brigham Young University, a year early, my parents assured me that everyone was popular in college, so I signed up for the honors dorm. Which was full of nerds. My roommate was...
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April 24, 2012

Damn You, eBay, And Your Creative Playthings Steel Drum With Handpainted Logo

If eBay were a person and not just an affiliate-linked advertiser, I'd come over there and punch it in the nose right. now. for not having a system that sends reminders to bidders that items they are bidding on--and...
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April 9, 2012

On Reinventing The Wheel

After 20 yrs of new dad rockers making kids records because they can't find any good kids music, you'd think they'd be able to find some.— Kevin Guilfoile (@kevinguilfoile) April 9, 2012 The more forgotten kid-related goodness I discover from...
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April 3, 2012

Pinball Number Count Remix Compilation

We've come a long way from DJ Food. In 2003, Sesame Workshop released a CD boxset, Songs From The Street: 35 Years Of Music, that included DJ Food's remix of the classic Pinball Number Count, which was performed by...
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April 2, 2012

I'm So Happy The Carbonite Is Gone. I'm Movin' On.

You know what, the Episode IV or Episode I debate is over. The Jar-Jar dilemma, the Young Anakin annoyance? Over. Clone Wars TV vs. movie? Irrelevant. There is now only one Star Wars movie your kids need to see...
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March 21, 2012

My First Patti Smith

From Oslo designer Anders Hansen's series of record cover book covers. The only way this Patti Smith Horses X Dorling Kindersley remix could be better is if it were a boardbook. Correction: Thanks to Anders for pointing out that...
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March 19, 2012

Protect Ya Neck & Fingaz: Maclaren Volo Amp Carrier

It's not all darkness and gloom for Maclaren, guvnuh, not when you've got artists like Lewis Floyd Henry out there every day, on the streets, representing the brand. Though you'd think that a guitar player of all people would...
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March 13, 2012

A Steady Diet Of John Cage

I was going to skip the NYT's story about the 22-year-old student at Brown who also happens to be an up&coming electronic musician, because, hello, it's Brown; throw a rock, and you're gonna hit a whatever-slash-electronic musician. But New Yorker...
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March 11, 2012

TMBG Papercraft Monster Hearse & Boom Box

TMBG's track from their new "Join Us" album, "When Will You Die?" is as catchy as any of their kids' tunes, but unless you want to have it sung at you during a temper tantrum, it's probably best to...
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February 22, 2012

Sorry, But It Is NOT All About The Fresh Beat Band

Look, my kid likes Fresh Beat Band, too, but I'm under no illusions that dropping three bills on VIP concert tickets and t-shirts has anything at all to do with her. It would all be about me, every last minute...
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February 17, 2012

Holy Mother

You know, David Lachapelle, fine. Courtney Love, whatever. £37,250 at auction in London today, ridiculous and probably manipulated, but I can ignore it. The thing that really kind of gets under my fingernails like a bamboo skewer about Lachappy's...
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February 6, 2012

Infantcore

Last fall, artist Nate Page pulled the windowed facade of the Echo Park gallery Machine Project back 25 feet into the space, creating a temporary "sidewalk alcove" he called Storefront Plaza. Which turns out to be the perfect place...
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February 2, 2012

OK No, OK Go: Stop With The Primary Color Misinformation.

"When you're seeing any other color, they're all made up of red, yellow and blue"? No, OK Go, no they are not. If They Might Be Giants can embrace the progress of Science, recognize the error of their original...
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January 30, 2012

Babies Are Sold Out

And the winner for email subject line of the week goes to my counter-programming curatorial hero Alanna Heiss, whose Clocktower Gallery is hosting a concert by Brooklyn lo-fi country pop duo The Babies tomorrow night. Which is, alas, sold...
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Everything Counts By Dicken Schrader Y Ninos

STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH THE WORLD'S GREATEST DEPECHE MODE COVER EVER. And then go home and start playing music with your kid. It's like the Pitagora Suitchi of music videos. Dicken Schrader, with Milah and Korben, playing...
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January 24, 2012

3-D Printed 'Still Alive' For The Fisher-Price Record Player

I'm getting chills watching this. It's a 3-D printed record that plays "Still Alive," Jonathan Coulton's song for the credits of Portal. On a vintage Fisher-Price record player. The future, the past, the virtual and the real, all have...
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January 23, 2012

Negativland X Chumbawamba = The ABC's Of Anarchism

In 1999, ahead-of-the-curve appropriationist musicians Negativland did a colabo with their one-hit wonderin' mates, Chumbawamba, remixing THAT SONG with audio of Alexander Berkman's 1932 manifesto The ABC's of Anarchism, the Sex Pistols, and the Teletubbies. Unfortunately for the band,...
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January 20, 2012

Richard Prince's Velvet Underground Album Cover

There are no details on Richard Prince's collection website about what's going on here, but you know what they say: the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it's kids made their own covers....
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January 10, 2012

My Oh My

Wow. Never mind Disney; it's a miracle any of us survived the 1980s. It was only about halfway through that I realized this: was not a single Mouseketeers in Disney World episode, but a compilation of clips. I can't...
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December 23, 2011

the Mountain Goats Chews Legos, Spits Them Out

Indie songster John Darnielle is so pissed at Lego's new gender-coded blocks & dolls strategy, he almost canceled his subscription to Business Week. @mountain_goats via @gabrielroth [twitter] previously: Lego is for girls now. again. whatever....
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December 1, 2011

Awesomely Annoying: Creative Playthings Steel Drum On eBay

This is simultaneously the awesomest thing I've seen on eBay all week and the single worst idea for a kid's gift all year. Unless, of course, your kid lives in a padded, soundproof room, or you totally hate your...
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November 15, 2011

Sun Ra At Bedtime

Sometimes the kids require a little attending to before they'll actually go to sleep. If my wife does it, that usually means some more hugs, or a little music, or checking in after they've been quiet for a few...
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November 10, 2011

Am I The Only One Who Hasn't Seen The Other F Word?

Eight years in, and I never quite figure out how this stuff works. I like to think I'd have known about The Other F Word, Andrea Nevins' documentary about punk rocker dads, the moment it was greenlighted. But instead, I...
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October 17, 2011

OG Sesame Street Signing Alphabet By Joan La Barbara

Once again, mid-70s Sesame Street quietly blows my mind. This time it's an animated sign language alphabet sequence with beep bop boop vocal and electronic music soundtrack by avant-garde icon Joan La Barbara. K2 is picking up a lot...
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September 22, 2011

And You Are NOT Watching Clone Wars

From culture trendspotter Theo Nion:Since her early childhood, a period sources said featured a Danger Mouse-themed birthday party that utterly baffled the assembled 6-year-old guests, Campbell's daughter has been fed a steady diet of marginalizing cinematic masterpieces from the world's...
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