New CandyBand Website

CandyBand's new website is at CandyBand.net. Hopefully it will return to the full level of fun that it was previously -- and this version appears to render better in Safari. Hooray!

Mllkshake Update

Got this from Lisa from Milkshake:

Here's an update on Milkshake.

Tune in to Noggin this coming Monday, September 26th at 12:30 PM and 4:30 PM to watch "Jack's Big Music Show," featuring the premiere of our video "Bottle of Sunshine." If you miss it, or you don't get satellite/digital cable, or just want to see the video again and again, go to the Noggin website after the air date, and you can view the video by clicking the "Jack's Big Music Show" page: http://www.noggin.com.

Milkshake will also be part of JAMARAMA, a cool music festival for children. Think "Lollapalooza for kids," and you'll understand the idea behind the event. Besides live performances from the Milkshake Band, Laurie Berkner and The Ohmies, the audience will find a Crayola coloring wall, karaoke kiosks, face/hair painting and "tattoo" booth, a Miffy storytelling area, Noggin costumed characters and more. Initial dates include stops in NJ, NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, in some of the finest rock clubs and theatres. Check our website for details, www.milkshakemusic.com.

Please let us know what you think of the video. And if you really like it and would like to see more Milkshake, please let NOGGIN know by emailing them via the website www.noggin.com. Simply go to the For Parents page, click Contact and scroll down to the contact area to write your thoughts.

Looking forward to visiting Massachussetts soon.


Thanks to Milkshake and hope we can get them to come by the show when they're in the area...

Playlist for 9/24/05

Archive copy here. Subscribe to the podcast by putting "http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpareTheRockPodcast" into the podcast client (if iTunes, this is under the "Advanced" menu).

What we played:

They Might Be Giants - C is for Conifer
The Beatles - With a Little Help From My Friends
Ralph's World - Hideaway
Alain Schneider - Chatouiller le Ciel Avec Toi
Dan Zanes & Friends - Smile Smile Smile
Splash 'n' Boots - Manatee Bay
Michelle Shocked - When I Grow Up
Deedle Deedle Dees - Scared By My Own Costume
Lord Invader with the Calypso Orchestra - Merrily We Roll Along
Leonardo Biciunas - Mind to Migrate
Eric Herman & The Invisible Band - Ten Times Fast
Miles Davis - Airegin
Manu Chao - Bongo Bong
Lunch Money - Yes, We Have Rhythm
Sho Mo & The Monkey Bunch - Honk Honk
Bonnie Lockhart, Billy Witz, Unity Nguyen - Wake Up You Sleepyhead
Mr. Richard - Zanyville
Thunderlords - Old Man Olaf
Ramones - Spiderman
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank (Mulder's Urban Takeover Remix)
Bzots - Skree's Solos
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
Big Audio Dynamite II - Rush
Scribble Monster & Pals - A Monster Goes Rrraargh!
Justin Roberts - Picture Day
Trout Fishing in America - I Get Ideas
Ben Rudnick & Friends - My Name Is Burt (live at WERS)
Milkshake - Boom Boom
Brady Rymer - Turn the World Around
Monty Harper - You're A Dinosaur (Live)
Daddy-A-Go-Go - I Don't Want to Go To School Today
CandyBand - If You're Happy and You Know It
Lyle Lovett - That's Right You're Not From Texas
Joe McDermott - Noise
They Might Be Giants - Fake Believe

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Playlist & Archive Link for September 17, 2005

Archive MP3 here.

They Might Be Giants - Wake-Up Call
Babaloo - Monsters in the Bathroom
Police - Walking on the Moon
Elizabeth Mitchell - Hey Bo Diddley
Jessica Harper - Down By the River/Bullfrog
Chico Cesar - Mama Africa
Jennie Avila - Gargoyles
Fugees - Happy to be Me
Deedle Deedle Dees - Babe Ruth
Brady Rymer - Eatin' Animal Crackers
Ella Jenkins - Turkey in the Straw
Two of a Kind - Pirate Song
Ralph's World - Down in the Glen
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part I
CandyBand - Fashion Show
Milkshake - Jump
Bzots - Escape-A-Go-Go
Daddy-A-Go-Go - Guitars from Mars
Fastbacks - Just One of Those Things
Mates of State - Starman
Neko Case & AC Newman & Friends - All For Swinging You Around
Mary Lou Lord w/ Semisonic - Sugar Sugar (Incidentally, Jake Slichter's So You Wanna Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star is terrific.)
Ben Rudnick & Friends - Martian Hoedown
Justin Roberts - Nine Planets
Scribble Monster & Pals - I'm A...
Waco Brothers - The Fox
John Linnell - South Carolina
Lunch Money - Silly Reflection
Gear Daddies - Zambone
The Whites - Keep On The Sunny Side
Dan Zanes w/ Rankin' Don and Donald Saaf - On the Sunny Side of the Street
Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie
Mr. Richard - Underwear
Billy Jonas - Alien In My Lungs
Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style
They Might Be Giants - E Eats Everything

Hooray for Candy Band

...for linking to our little show!

We heart CandyBand.

P.S. We do wish their website rendered better in Safari, though. Looks purty in Firefox, happily.

P.P.S. Oops, their website is temporarily gone. I understand it will return, however.

9/10/05 Playlist & Archive Link

What a fun show!


Ella's absent tooth

The archive of today's show is here. Instructions on how to receive the podcast are here.

Stuff we played:

They Might Be Giants - Alphabet Lost and Found
ScribbleMonster - I Like the Way You Share
Lucas Miller - Out On the Prairie
Glenn Miller - In The Mood
Ralph's World - I'm My Own Grandpaw
Martita, Jesus Dejerez, Juan Rojas - Cantos De Animalitos
Ben Rudnick - Sally Salamander
Milkshake - School
Sue Trainor - Alligator Jump
Nazare Pereira - Bonjour Pra Voce (Good Morning to You)
Gunnar Madsen - The Evelyn Way
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Our House
Jessica Harper - Happy Talk
Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys - It's Not Easy Being Green
Queen Latifah - Dance For Me
Thunderlords - Ice Cream Headache
Bzots - Hey Wkewke
Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Arcwelder - Cranberry Sauce
CandyBand - Time Out
Ivy - Sing
The Crunch Bunch - In Love With # 1
Daddy a Go Go - I Think I Might Be a Dog
Hot Soup - Dig Down Deep
Interview with Christina Marrs of Asylum Street Spankers
Asylum Street Spankers - Hot Lunch
Asylum Street Spankers - Cakewalk
Justin Roberts - I Lost the Tooth I Lost
Lunch Money - Got To Watch Out
Brady Rymer - It's All How You Look At It
Dan Zanes with Lou Reed and the Rubi Theater Co. - What a Wonderful World
They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm

What's Stuck in Your Head?

We've been listening to all this great music coming in lately, and we can't wait to share it with y'all.

For me, the songs that keep coming back tend to be from Lunch Money and their terrific Silly Reflection CD, in particular "Tricycle" and "Roller Coaster." They alternate with the insanely catchy songs from The Bzots (one of which is the background music for our new promo).

Ella's had Jessica Harper's "Four Boys Named Jordan" in her head for a day or two.

How about you? What's stuck in your head? Post in the comments field -- you have to register, but it's free and easy. Honest.

Spankers Interview

We'll play it during the show on Saturday too, but if you want to hear my interview with Christina Marrs of the Asylum Street Spankers, you can download it here.

They played a couple of the songs that will be on the kids' album (hopefully coming out in the spring), and it's going to be a terrific one, including one about going to bed and one about how everything in the world is made of boogers.

Boogers boogers boogers!

New Archive Links

You can see the three shows we've successfully recorded by downloading the MP3s at these links:

August 13, 2005

August 27, 2005

September 3, 2005 (partial recording)

We'll be on this Saturday with all sorts of good stuff, including, if I get a chance to edit it, an interview with Christina Marrs of the legendary Asylum Street Spankers, who will be releasing a kids' album in the spring.

Kids' Artists for Katrina

I got this from one of the ScribbleMonster guys, but lots of artists we play are involved:

ScribbleMonster & His Pals have joined a group of CD Baby artists (including Daddy-A-Go-Go, Trout Fishing in America, The Tomato Collection, Mitch Friedman, The Thunderlords, Zak Morgan, Monty Harper - there are a couple hundred children's CDs, and thousands in all music categories) in donating all money collected from September disc sales to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund. If people are considering making a donation to the Red Cross, this is an opportunity for them to make a donation, and get some great music at the same time. We've had a few sales already and as a starving artist, it is rewarding to be able to help make a contribution this way.

If interested, people just need to visit cdbaby.com and click on the "For Charity" link on the homepage. This brings up a listing of all the discs donating their purchase price to the Red Cross.

It's a great way to contribute a little more. Please do so.

Spare the Rock Promo

Do you have an odd desire to hear a not-particularly-well-produced promo spot for the show?

Well, satisfy that desire here.

Playlist and Link for 9/3/2005 Show

Unfortunately, we missed the last forty minutes recording as someone bumped the tuner knob. But it was a good show, and the first eighty minutes should show that.

You can download that first part, for the next week, by following this link. See the instructions in this entry for setting up the podcast.

Here's what we played:

They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm
New Orleans Jazz Vipers - Blue Drag (go give the Red Cross money. Now.)
Us3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Gunnar Madsen - Ants in My Pants
Billy Jonas - What Kind of Cat Are You?
Laurie Berkner - Under a Shady Tree
Sho, Mo & The Monkey Bunch - Five Little Monkeys
Timbuk 3 - Facts About Cats
Guster - I've Got to be Clean
Jessica Harper - Four Boys Named Jordan
Jose Gonzalez & Banda Criolla - Bomba Le Le
Justin Roberts - Picture Day
Dan Zanes & Friends - Thrift Shop
Suburbs - Music for Boys
Scribble Monster & Pals - Chocolate Milk
Bzots - Two Months Security Deposit
NoMeansNo - Joy
CandyBand - Get Up Already
Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
Brady Rymer - Drawing on the Sidewalk
Mitch Friedman - Wonder Where
[Note: archive recording ends after this song. Sigh.)
Babaloo - My Hair Had a Party Last Night
Lunch Money - Tricycle
De La Soul - Me Myself I
Milkshake - Bottle of Sunshine
Leonardo - Mood to Migrate
Ella Jenkins - That's the Way Things Are
Pete Seeger - On Top of Old Smokey
Mr. Richard - Animal Friends
They Might Be Giants - House At the Top of the Tree
Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
Spearhead - Hole in the Bucket (radio version)
Gear Daddies - Zambone
Juliana Hatfield & Tanya Donnelly - Josie & The Pussycats

Send us a note or use the comments link below to get in touch! Requests, suggestions, etc., would be great.

Have a fun week, and welcome back to school, everyone who's back in school...