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Music for, by and about (please help) kids ++ Dan Zanes & Kooks & View tour dates
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I just got this email from a reader:
I was hoping you might be able to help me with something. I'm looking for music for a video I'm making for my daughter's pending adoption. Hate to use same old tired songs that come to mind. Could you recommend some better, perhaps more obscure songs about children, parenting, love, etc? I came across a Dar Williams song called "The One Who Knows" that was pretty good, but can't find too much else.I couldn't think of anything off the top of my head, but leave it to Wikipedia to have a page entitled "List of songs about children". I'd like to see this guy use "Mommy's Little Monster" by Social Distortion, "Throw Away Children" by Dio, or even "Youth Gone Wild" by Skid Row, but maybe Pink Floyd's "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and/or Lou Reed's "Beginning of a Great Adventure" might be more appropriate. Any other suggestions? Help him out in the comments.
And Speaking of kids...
* Dan Zanes is touring
* Justin Timberlake to host Kid's Choice Awards
* Britain's indie bands making children's albums
* Alec Ounsworth working on a children's album
* Tiny Masters of Today playing NYC, London, SXSW
* 14 year-old Hayes Peebles playing Movable Hype
* Mirah, Mudhoney, Mary Timony & others "play" on new kids CD
We've also established that UK band The View are young, and right before them, but after Arctic Monkeys, we had the young UK band The Kooks. It's all very confusing, and even more confusing because both of the NME-approved bands with four letters in their name just announced tour dates. Tickets are on sale for:
- The View @ Luna Lounge - March 3 - WITH YOUNG KNIVES and FOREIGN ISLANDS
- The View @ Bowery Ballroom - March 20
- The Kooks @ Irving Plaza - May 10th
All Dan Zanes, Kooks & View tour dates below....
The Kooks | 2007 Tour Dates
April 29th – Indio, CA – Coachella
April 30th – San Francisco, CA - Slim’s
May 2nd – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
May 3rd – Seattle, WA – Crocodile Cafe
May 5th – Chicago, IL – Metro
May 7th – Columbus, OH – The Basement
May 8th – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
May 10th – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
May 12th – Washington DC – 9:30 Club
May 13th – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
The View | 2007 Tour Dates
March 3 - Brooklyn NY - Luna Lounge w/ Young Knives & Foreign Islands
March 5 - Toronto ON - Lee's Palace
March 7 - Chicago IL - Schuba's
March 9 - Seattle WA - Crocodile Cafe
March 11 - San Francisco CA - Slim's
March 13 - Los Angeles CA - Troubadour
insert SXSW here
March 20 - New York NY - Bowery Ballroom
March 22- Cambridge MA - T.T. The Bears
Dan Zanes | 2007 Tour Dates
saturday, february 3 hartford, ct belding theater
sunday, february 4 morristown, nj the community theatre
saturday, february 24 princeton, nj mccarter theatre
sunday, february 25 camden, nj camden center for the arts, gordon theater
friday, march 2 new york, ny the new victory theater
saturday, march 3 new york, ny the new victory theater
sunday, march 4 new york, ny the new victory theater
friday, march 9 new york, ny the new victory theater
saturday, march 10 new york, ny the new victory theater
sunday, march 11 new york, ny the new victory theater
saturday, march 24 somerville, ma somerville theatre
sunday, march 25 somerville, ma somerville theatre
friday, march 30 frankenmuth, mi bavarian inn
saturday, april 14 seattle, wa moore theater
saturday, april 21 los angeles, ca ucla
sunday, april 22 tuscon, az rialto theatre
saturday, may 5 portsmouth, nh the music hall
sunday, may 6 purchase, ny the performing arts center at purchase college
thursday, may 17 south orange, nj south orange performing arts center
saturday, may 19 boston, ma berklee college of music
Previously
Kidz Bop rules the charts
Arctic Monkeys not as hot in USA, not as hot as kids music
Posted on February 4, 2007 3:14 PM
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Comments (26)
the kooks are the *indie* equivalent of hanson.
better catch them before they are washed away like sand.
i just can't imagine them coming up wioth anything i wold wanna hear 5 years from now
Posted by soup monster | February 4, 2007 3:31 PM
Devendra Banhart - 'Long Haired Child'. 'I Feel Just Like A Child', 'Chinese Children'
Slick Rick - 'Children's Story'
Posted by AC | February 4, 2007 3:37 PM
anyone know anything about the view?
Posted by soup monster | February 4, 2007 3:37 PM
Hayes Peebles is the worst
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 3:38 PM
Hey anon, Hayes Peebles is 14. Pick on someone your own size.
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 3:40 PM
The View's album is solid. The first half is really good but the album runs out of steam in the 2nd half. Sounds a lot like The Libertines, but with a pretty neat Dundee accent. Spiky Libertines-esque guitars too.
The Kooks album is sort of fun, but from what I've seen, they suck live. Plus, I don't go to live shows from bands who produce mellow music - like waving my head from side-to-side type music.
Posted by MARLOW | February 4, 2007 3:47 PM
Kooks has four letters?
Posted by Alex | February 4, 2007 3:58 PM
"Kooks has four letters?" oops.
Posted by brooklynvegan | February 4, 2007 4:03 PM
Fun selection of children's songs, BV. But part of the answer to your query on behalf of your reader indeed is the item about The Kooks. Have him or her check his or her copy of "Hunky Dory." The compilation begins and ends there.
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 4:09 PM
kids music? Jackson 5 all the way suckas.
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 4:19 PM
How about Danzig's "Mother" ?. Essentially about children--children being killed, but children nonetheless.
Posted by Michael Quirk | February 4, 2007 4:19 PM
Dead Babies-Alice Cooper
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 4:49 PM
sweet child of mine
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 6:15 PM
Honeymoon child - emiliana torrini
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 6:26 PM
what about "hell is for children"?
Posted by that dude jeff | February 4, 2007 6:39 PM
"my daughter's pending adoption"
His (adult) daughter is adopting a child?
He is in the process of adopting a girl and even though it's not official yet, he's already referring to her as his daughter?
He's giving up his daughter for adoption?
Enquiring minds want to know!
Posted by :-D | February 4, 2007 8:01 PM
For the enquiring mind ...
The second guess was right. She's been my foster daughter for some time; we're only now on the verge of making it official.
Sorry about the confusing sentence. I might have been more careful if I thought BV would post it.
Thanks for your interest.
Posted by egn | February 4, 2007 10:19 PM
Conratulations egn -
I can wholeheartedly recommend They Might Be Giants' "No!"
http://www.amazon.com/No-They-Might-Be-Giants/dp/B000068C97/sr=8-1/qid=1170648155/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7229448-1675052?ie=UTF8&s=music
Another favorite of the little girl in my life was/is "For the Kids"
(Cake's version the Muppet show song "Hahna Mahna" is great)
http://www.amazon.com/Kids/dp/B00006L7QX
Pitchfork has also discussed indie rock kids music in the past, like the Belle and Sebastian curated compilation "Colours are Brighter":
http://www.amazon.com/Colours-Are-Brighter-Children-Grown-Ups/dp/B000HOMLNS/sr=8-1/qid=1170647116/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7229448-1675052?ie=UTF8&s=music
This one, "See You on the Moon", is cut from the same cloth:
http://www.amazon.com/See-You-Moon-Songs-Kids/dp/B000ENBNWC/sr=8-2/qid=1170647116/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-7229448-1675052?ie=UTF8&s=music
This one looks good to me -"The Bottle Let Me Down"
http://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Let-Me-Down-Songs/dp/B000066JE8/sr=8-9/qid=1170647439/ref=pd_bbs_9/103-7229448-1675052?ie=UTF8&s=music
I cant vouch for these though.
Finally, Im from SF, ,and we have two fairly popular kids rock bands around here, the Sippy Cups and the Dead Hensons. You may want to check their websites for mp3s and such.
Good luck and have fun, and as Chris Rock says "dear lord, keep my baby off the pole!"
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 11:03 PM
"He's giving up his daughter for adoption?"
That's what I thought.
Posted by Anonymous | February 4, 2007 11:29 PM
i didn't like the kooks, nothing speacial. You can find this kind of guitar bands on Myspace -- more than thousand band.
the view's record is a little glittery but they're not Wow, OH, Amazing, band of my life. Also sure these are my opinions, i think NME is one the worst music magazine. Their recommendations, artist spots --(oh, god help me)--totally sucks. Uncut is better , if you look for a good magazine.
Posted by bulut | February 5, 2007 6:11 AM
"Finally, Im from SF, ,and we have two fairly popular kids rock bands around here, the Sippy Cups and the Dead Hensons."
The Dead Hensons?! That sounds like a poor choice for the name of a group that performs music for the kiddies.
Which Henson besides Muppets creator Jim Henson has died?
Posted by :-D | February 5, 2007 8:41 AM
PB and J -- phil and the osophers?
or what about some johnathon richman... i'm a little airplane or ice cream man.
Posted by JAL | February 5, 2007 9:42 AM
Anonymous at 4:09 pm beat me to it. "Kooks," indeed.
Posted by oudemia | February 5, 2007 3:17 PM
Get Up Kids singer Matt Pryor has "The Terrible Twos"
myspace.com/theterribletwosband
Posted by Anonymous | February 6, 2007 1:19 PM
kooks are rad, actually sorta like that Hayes Peebles, cant make the show though, bummer
Posted by andy | February 6, 2007 11:41 PM
hayes peebles is really talented.
Posted by jenna | May 3, 2007 9:29 PM