Everyone's favorite sun alien returns with a batch of beautiful new songs
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Happy Fat Tuesday! What better way to celebrate then with brand spankin’ new Gustafer Yellowgold music! On April 3rd, Morgan Taylor will release a new DVD/CD set titled Year In The Day. In proper teasing form, Morgan Taylor is releasing the single “Pancake Smackdown” today (now available in the itunes store) in honor of Fat Tuesday. I’m hungry already. Check out the video for “Pancake Smackdown” For those of you with Sirius/XM Kids Place Live will be doing a “Short Stack Attack: Gustafer Yellowgold/Recess Monkey Back to Back” double feature throughout today playing “Pancake Smackdown” and Recess Monkey’s “Flapjacks.” And since it’s Fat Tuesday, who wants more
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If you’ve been reading Dadnabbit for any length of time, you already know I’m a huge Caspar Babypants fan. We gave an enthusiastic thumbs up to the last Babypants joint, This Is Fun!, and I had a great time during my conversation with Caspar (a.k.a. Chris Ballew, part-time frontman for Presidents of the United States of America) back in April. The bottom line is that he’s a smart guy who cares a lot about what families listen to together, and he has the instantly addictive songs to prove it. “How addictive?” you ask. Well, here’s the most recent example in our house: The new Caspar Babypants record, Sing Along!, arrived in my mailbox right before I left for a 10-day visit to my sister, who just had her first baby. By the time I returned
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There’s never any shortage of cartoon characters in family entertainment, but few of them possess the unusual, undeniable appeal of Gustafer Yellowgold, the friendly, bug-eyed alien from the sun who arrived on Earth five years ago and has quickly achieved kindie rock star status. With his latest adventure, Gustafer Yellowgold’s Infinity Sock, coming out on March 1, we decided now would be the perfect time for a chat with his creator: musician and illustrator Morgan Taylor. So let’s talk about Infinity Sock. Yeah! What’s going on with it? (Laughs) One thing I’ve always enjoyed about the Gustafer records is that they’re not only mellow — as you often point out — but that they’re also gentle, which makes a big difference, I think. And I also appreciate the fact that they don’t pander musically, either
Read More »Gustafer Yellowgold’s Mellow Fever (2009, Apple-Eye) purchase this CD/DVD (Amazon) Back in the days when I didn’t have kids and therefore remained rather blissfully unaware of most children’s entertainment, I operated under the (pretty reasonable, I think) assumption that most of it was more or less linear, and easy to understand. I mean, it stands to reason, right? If you’re trying to entertain an audience that isn’t going to process anything you don’t explicitly spell out on the screen, you’re going to make sure it’s all spelled out, right? I was totally wrong, obviously. Do you hear that bitter laughter? That’s the sound of other parents, remembering the days when they were new to the lawless frontier that is kids’ entertainment. I started to get my first inkling of just how weird this stuff can
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