This week, Ella talked about The Calder Game.  Click on the book cover to find an independent bookseller selling it!

Listen to the show on demand at our page at WRSI.com.

Thanks to Brady Rymer for a fun guest DJ set!  He’ll be at the Iron Horse tomorrow (Sunday) at 2 – get your advance tickets at IHEG.com (discount family four-pack!).  And we’ll see you this afternoon for Uncle Rock at the Eric Carle Museum (1:00).

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – LMNO
Uncle Rock – The Night the Lights Went Out (The Big Picture)
ID
The Real Tuesday Weld – Little Boxes (Sing Me to Sleep – Indie Lullabies)
Sones de Mexico Ensemble – Quiereme Mucho (Fiesta Mexicana)
Dog on Fleas – Green Grass of Summer (When I Get Little)
ID
Tom Waits – Young At Heart

Segment 2
T-Bone Burnett – Humans From Earth (Until the End of the World ST)
John Sheldon – Mighty Fine Hound
ID/prep to rock
Pixies – La La Love You (Doolittle)
Roy Handy & the Moonshot – That’s a Great Idea!!! ((I’m Gonna Be) Your Best Friend)

Segment 3
ID
Verve Pipe – Complimentary Love (A Family Album)
The Not-Its! – The Great Compromise (We Are the Not-Its!)
David Byrne – Don’t Fence Me In (Red Hot & Blue)
ID/book time with Ella (The Red Pyramid)
Sugar Free Allstars – In My Pocket
Candy Band – Batman (High Five)
ID

Segment 4
Brady Rymer Guest DJ set
Soul Finger – The Bar-Kays – Soul Finger
Picky Eater – Brady Rymer – new demos
You Can Get It If You Really Want – Jimmy Cliff – The Harder They Come
Mail Myself to You – Pete Seeger – The Complete Carnagie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963
99 1/2 Wont Do – Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Gospel Train
Light of Love – Brady Rymer & the Lil Band That Could – Live – Greenport, NY, June 2009

Segment 5:
Brady Rymer guest DJ set
musical bed: Whipped Cream – The Stokes – The Stokes Selected Favorites
Opening Day – Brady Rymer – home recording
Boogie Shoes – KC & the Sunshine Band – The Best of KC & the Sunshine Band
Don’t You Just Know It – Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns – Having a Good Time with Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns
Just Say Hi – Brady Rymer – home recording
Beauty in the World – Macy Gray – Beauty in the World-Single
Musical Bed:Machine Gun – The Commodores – 20th Century Masters

Segment 6
ID
Justin Roberts – We Go Duck (Jungle Gym)
Dre Towey – Your House (Sugar On Top)
Andrew Bird – The Twistable, Turnable Man Returns (Twistable Turnable Man)
ID
Uncle Rock – Leave the Bees Be (The Big Picture)
Recess Monkey – Jet Pack (Final Funktier)
TMBG – Nonagon (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Click on the book cover to find an independent bookseller selling the new Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid, which Ella talked about on the show this week.

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

Check out information about Cartoonapalooza here.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Violin (No!)
Keith Munslow – The Leftovers (Homemade Fun)
Dean Jones – Grow Little Flower (Napper’s Delight)
ID
Natalie Merchant – Topsy Turvy World
Johnny Cash – I Got a Boy and His Name is John
ID

Segment 2
Matthew Sweet – Good Night
Dala – Dream a Little Dream of Me (Sing Me to Sleep)
Laura Daisybee – Swing Swing With Me (Meltdown 2010)
ID/prep to rock)
Royal Order of Chords & Keys – Punk Rock One Sock (Punk Rock One Sock)
Candy Band – Cookie Jar (High Five)
Lunch Money – Cookie As Big As My Head (Dizzy)
ID

Segment 3
Recess Monkey – Moon Boots (Final Funktier)
Eddie Floyd – Big Bird
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – The Green Grass Grows All Around (Ranky Tanky)
Leslie Bixler, Chad Smith – Cole’s Train (Rhythm Train)
ID
Joanie Leeds – I’m a Rock Star

Segments 4 & 5
Mark Anderson Guest DJ Set:
Brian Wilson – Speed Turtle
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Gotta Be Me
Woody Guthrie – Red River Valley
Eels – Fresh Feeling
Georges Moustaki – Une Petit Chanson
Louis Armstrong & Billie Holliday – My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash
Care Bears on Fire – Everybody Else
Theresa Andersson – Birds Fly Away
Prince – Starfish & Coffee

Segment 6
ID
Elvis Costello – Veronica (Spike)
Jon Samson – Everything Is Music To Me (Another Kid’s Album)
Egg – Flip Flops (Sunny Side Up)
Cake – Mahna Mahna
ID
Joe’s Backyard Band – Cities with Seagulls
ID
TMBG – One Dozen Monkeys (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Welcome to May, and thanks to Mister G for coming by!  You can listen any time at our page at WRSI.com.

Here’s what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – No!
Me 3 – Apple (The Thin King)
Elizabeth Mitchell – Ladybug Picnic (You Are My Sunshine)
ID
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole… – Over the Rainbow What a Wonderful World
Chris Jones – Crawdad Song (House of Mercy Vol. 1, The Youngster Parade)
ID

Segment 2
Peter Rundquist – Effervescing Elephant
Pink Floyd – Bike (Piper at the Gates of Dawn)
Recess Monkey – Pedal Power
ID/prep to rock
REM – Stand
Captain Bogg & Salty – Don’t Drink Sea Water
Tripping Daisy – Sigmund and the Seamonsters
ID

Segment 3:
Princess Katie & Racer Steve – Sand in my Sandwich (Tiny Cool)
Dick Dale – Miserlou
Starfish – Starfish and Coffee
ID
Prince – Get on the Boat (3121)
Billy Kelly – Springtime: It’s My Favorite
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Mister G In-studio

Segment 5
Wee Hairy Beasties – Road Safety Song (Animal Crackers)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – I Wanna Be Like You (This Beautiful Life)
ID/book time with Ella (Hoot)
Ozomatli – Love and Hope (Don’t Mess with the Dragon)
Justin Roberts – Pop Fly (Pop Fly)
Dan Zanes – Jump Up (Family Dance)
ID

Segment 6
Milkshake – Happy Place
Sly & the Family Stone – You Can Make It If You Try
Stevie Wonder – 1-2-3 Sesame Street (Songs from the Street)
ID
fIREHOSE – Epoxy, for Example (Flyin’ the Flannel)
Danny Adlerman & Friends – When I Grow Up (Listen Up!)
ID
They Might Be Giants – Apartment Four (Here Come the 123s)

Yup, I got quoted in the New York Times.  (In case you’re curious, this is the third time; both other times have been in my capacity as a law professor.)

First, if you’re looking for information about KindieFest, head here now (click on “Festival” up top to find out about the public Sunday event).

If you are here for the first time, a little tour for you.  If you visit our page at WRSI.com, you can listen to recent shows on demand.  You can also listen live online via WRSI.com.  Up across the top there, you can read a little more about us, see old playlists, listen to some in-studio performances, watch in-studios and other live music, see some of my picks for the best family music of the last few years, see what books Ella has talked about, or learn more about our forthcoming CD to benefit Haiti relief, featuring new music from an amazing lineup, including They Might Be Giants, Pete Seeger, Elizabeth Mitchell, and many more.

And then along the right-hand column, we’ve got lots more, including upcoming events in the Pioneer Valley, links to a bunch of other family music sites like Zooglobble, Out with the Kids, and Gooney Bird Kids.

So: take a look around, listen to the show, and enjoy!

Happy Earth Day weekend!  Listen on demand at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – ICU
Lunch Money – Wake Up World (Dizzy)
Haley Bonar – Beautiful You
ID
Uncle Rock (with Elizabeth Mitchell) – There Is No Away (The Big Picture)
ScribbleMonster – The Song of Life (Songs with No Character)
ID

Segment 2
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends – I Won’t Grow Up
Frances England – Spring has Sprung (Family Tree)
ID/prep to rock
Sippy Cups – Springtime Fantastic
Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers (Golden Delicious)
The Not-Its – When I’m Five
Clementown – Polkabats

Segment 3
Pencilhead and the Playground Punks – Super
Robbert Bobbert – We R Super Heroes
Flaming Lips – Waitin’ for a Superman
ID
Princess Katie & Racer Steve – Tube Sox (Tiny Cool)
Natalie Merchant – The Janitor’s Boy (Leave Your Sleep)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Lennon’s Song – We Love, We Learn, We Grow
The Living Sisters – Cradle (Love to Live)
Red Hook Ramblers – Down By the Riverside
ID
Jimmies – What’s that Sound? (Make Your Own Someday)

Segment 5
Toots & the Maytals – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (The Disney Reggae Club)
Heidi Swedberg & the Sukey Jump Band – Paw Paw Patch (Play!)
ID/book time with Ella (Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Roger Day – Inside My Cranium (Why Does Gray Matter?)
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Diablo Rojo
Roy Handy & the Moonshot – I Am a Dog!!! ((I’m Gonna Be) Your Best Friend)
ID

Segment 6
Sugar Free Allstars – Little Red Wagon (Funky Fresh & Sugar Free)
Walter T and the Rated-Gs – Rough Day at the Sandbox (Rough Day at the Sandbox)
Mister G – Sneaky Chihuahua (Pizza for Breakfast)
ID (Mister G at Pulaski Park tomorrow)
Ralph & Ralph – Arms of My Love (Opposites)
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – They All Ask’d For You (live at Spare the Rock)
ID
They Might Be Giants – Science is Real (Here Comes Science)
They Might Be Giants – Spare the Rock