Today’s youth are in desperate need of a family-friendly funk infusion, and just in time, here comes the leadoff single from Sugar Free Allstars’ upcoming album All on a Sunday Afternoon. Featuring the duo’s trademark drum kit kick with Hammond special sauce, “Sunday Afternoon” makes extra room for the additional song stylings of Trout Fishing in America’s Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet. Check it out below, and visit the band’s site to get more information on the new album, due June
Read More »Collaborative efforts are nothing new to the Sugar Free Allstars. Last year they brought you the song, “Cooperate“, featuring Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. This year the guys from Oklahoma have teamed up with Recess Monkey on a song called ‘Working Together.’ It’s fun and funky. Exactly what you’d expect out of these two kindie bands. Listen. Download. Repeat. Enjoy. The big question I have, is do you call them Sugar Free Monkey or Recess All Stars? My daughter liked Sugar Free Monkey better. Ask your kid which one they like a better and see if we can come up with a definitive answer. What would name this supergroup? (polls)
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Right on time for Halloween, the funky boys from Oklahoma are back with a funky rendition of the classic Ghostbusters theme song done by Ray Parker Jr. The video comes courtesy of http://newsok.com/ Weird. Is traditional media finally paying attention to the kindie music scene? Enjoy!
Read More »I hope you did your duty and participated in the first round of voting yesterday — Out with the Kids embedded those videos all nice and pretty for you, and if we don’t exercise our voting rights, that just invites unscrupulous people to come and take advantage of the process. How do you think Raffi won all those Grammys? (Note: I don’t know if Raffi has actually won any Grammys. But he seems shifty.) Anyway, today we’ve moved on to the Ella Jenkins Regional, and four more videos fighting to make it to the next round. Let’s watch, and then head over to Ages 3 and Up to vote! #1 Seed: John Upchurch and Mark Greenberg, “A Counting Error” I don’t know how I’ve missed hearing this song until now, but it’s great — and
Read More »My daughter wasn’t much older than three when she strolled down the hallway after a bath one night, turned around, dropped her towel, and instructed me to “look at the rump” while she danced around. Moral of the story: Kids love to dance. Most kids’ musicians know this, and most albums of kids’ music include at least a song or two about getting up and moving around — but most of them are lacking that crucial groove thang that hits you in your funky bone. The best music made for children is many things — fun, educational, smart, tender, catchy — but generally speaking, it does not bring the funk. Unless it’s made by the Sugar Free Allstars, that is. The Allstars (a.k.a. vocalist/Hammond player/saxophonist Chris “Boom!” Wiser and drummer Rob “Dr. Rock” Martin) continue
Read More »Aside from Martin & Medeski or the Benevento-Russo Duo, there aren’t many acts a person can turn to if they’re hungry for some stripped down, funky Hammond organ-and-drums action — and in the kids’ music universe? Forget it. With the quasi-exception of Taj Mahal’s songs for children, funk and/or soul is in short supply in the kiddieverse, and if there are two things our children need more than fresh air, exercise, and to leave me alone while I’m trying to write, those two things are funk and soul. After all, like Whitney Houston said, the children are our future. Try imagining a future even less funky than the world we’re living in. Gives you the heebie-jeebies, doesn’t it? I mean, if Karl Rove had been fed a diet of Wilson Pickett and Aretha when he
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