Have you ever been to Pancake Mountain? Didn’t think so — but you need to go soon. And you need to take your kids with you. Pancake Mountain is the coolest kid’s show you’ve never seen. Part surrealistic satire, part indie music showcase (and all fun), Pancake Mountain goes where most kids shows fear to […]
When my kid came into this world six years ago, I vowed to shun all children’s music. I, the musician dad with the immense and elite record collection, was going to make certain that my child listened to the finest music ever written, with her old man as her tour guide. The Wiggles, with their […]
Oh, man, I almost fell out laughing when I saw these Jack and Meg White finger puppets, and then I remembered how much fun my daughter had playing with finger puppets when she was just a toddler. Of course, my kid had the middle-of-the-road variety. You know, giraffes, lions, monkeys. Crap like that. Well, we […]
Pitchfork Music’s website has become the definitive, go-to place for the latest critiques and insights into our favorite indie bands.This is an ongoing problem for music magazines like Rolling Stoned and Spin, who have dwindled in quality over the past decade. They focused more on commercially successful music acts (like all that dubstep cripe), while […]
In 2007, The National were a REALLY big deal to hipsters; but as is typical of most hipster mind’s, they wander pretty quickly to the next best thing, especially once whatever they liked a moment ago is eventually recognized by non-music “experts” like themselves. It all has to do with what’s trendy and “in” and […]
Oh, where is my mind? In the water, see it swimming? Cool. Glad we got that figured out, I would’ve hated to lose something so important. The Pixies, off their 1988 album, Surfer Rosa, asked the same question as I did and ended up finding their minds in the same place, too. Weird, huh? This […]
Every indie rocker kid (whether they are a hipster or not) felt a massive wave of shock, denial, and disbelief when they heard the terrible news about the split between Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. Then came the next inevitable step: a race to every music website known to man for confirmation of the news. […]
