Congrats to the winners of the Fids & Kamily Awards!  Read more about them here and listen now:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Science is Real
ID
Fids & Kamily:
13. Lloyd H. Miller – Seventeen Years (SS Brooklyn)
12. Lucky Diaz y la Familia Musica – A Bailar (Fantastico)
ID
11. Lori Henriques – Everlovin’ Water (The World is a Curious Place to Live)
10. Justin Roberts – Polar Bear (Lullaby)
ID

Segment 2
Esquivel – Surfboard
ID/prep to ROCKTOBER
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
9. Key Wilde & Mr Clarke – Bigga Bagga (Pleased to Meet You)
8. Dean Jones – Snail Mail (When the World was New)
ID
7. The Not-Its! – Full Tilt (Kidquake!)
6. Recess Monkey – Walkie Talkies (Deep Sea Diver)
ID

Segment 3
ID
5. Shine & the Moonbeams – High Five (Shine and the Moonbeams)
4. Elizabeth Mitchell & Dan Zanes – Coney Island Avenue (Turn Turn Turn)
ID
3. Alastair Moock – Hard Travelin’ (Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World’s Bravest Kids)
2. Frances England – Move Like Saturday Night (Blink of An Eye)
ID
1. Justin Roberts – Check Me Out, I’m At the Checkout (Recess)
ID
TMBG – Triops Has Three Eyes
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen now:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – I Am Not Your Broom
Play Date in-studio
Segment 2
You and Me and the Rain – For Halloween This Year
ID/prep to ROCKTOBER
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
Edukator Jr. – Monsters
Candy Band – Simon Says
Loud Sounds bumper
Jr. Madness – Liza Jane (new)’
The Clash – Lost in the Supermarket
ID

Segment 3
Charlie Hope – Goodnight Little Arlo
ID
Danny Lion – Sneaker Shoe Man (new)
Chic – Le Freak
ID
the Zing Zangs – Mustaches (new)
Fountains of Wayne – Trucks (new)
ID
TMBG – Robot Parade
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Okay, we’re not presently on a boat.  But we might be!

I’ve been talking with Jonathan Coulton and his JoCo Cruise Crazy partners for a while about co-presenting a family music cruise, with great music, activities, programming, and so on.  And we’re super excited about the idea!

But we want to know what you think.  And to get that information, we’ve got this quick and easy survey for you to fill out.  Could you take just a few minutes and do so?  No commitment, no fuss.

Thanks!

Listen now!  It is ROCKTOBER, people.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Caspar Babypants – Shortnin Bread (feat. Fysah Thomas)
The Pastels – Speeding Motorcycle
ID
Mister G – Hola Amigos (new)
Red Yarn – Rattlesnake (new)
ID

Segment 2
The Watson Twins – Circle (new)
ID/prep to ROCKTOBER
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
ID
Moona Luna – H2O
Jr. Madness – Jim-A-Long Josie (new)
Tim & the Space Cadets – Superhero
Loud Sounds bumper
Todd McHatton & Mista Cookie Jar – All These Magical Things (new)
Mike Doughty – Super Bon Bon (new)
ID

Segment 3
ACL underwriting
Jellydots in-studio
ID
TMBG – Apartment Four
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Holy smokes!  It’s time for the Austin City Limits Music Festival (and thanks, incidentally, to them for their support of the show)!

We’ll be heading out there for the second weekend and we’re pretty excited about it.  I wrote a brief set of suggestions for people going there with kids for the nice folks at LiveMom; read it here.  They’ve teamed up with some other people to create ACL with Kids, another great resource.

More directly relevant to the show, we’ve got some great in-studios lined up — we’ll record them over the next week and air them in coming weeks.  In addition to the Jellydots (airing this weekend), we’ve got The Ohmies, Play Date, Caspar Babypants, Tim & the Space Cadets (hopefully with some of Mother Falcon too), and the Verve Pipe.  And that’s just for ACL — also coming up, we’ve got Mike Doughty, Danny Weinkauf (of TMBG), and some other potential visits that will BLOW YOUR MIND.

I’m happy with our our videos are coming along too — Liam’s been a great help as camera operator.  Check out the Jellydots video:

Hooray!  It’s ROCKTOBER.

Listen on demand at PRX.org!

Thanks to Joanie Leeds for guest DJing — you can see her at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA, on Saturday morning at 11!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Electric Car
Elizabeth Mitchell – John the Rabbit (live in-studio)
ID
Red Yarn & Friends – Bob the Rabbit (new)
Cloud Cult – Help
Psapp – Everybody Wants to be a Cat
ID
Joanie Leeds Guest DJ set

Segment 2
Jonathan Coulton – The Princess Who Saved Herself (live in-studio)
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
ID
Peelander-Z – Taco Taco Tacos
Sippy Cups – Seven is the New Fourteen
1977 Bumper
Superchunk – FOH (new)
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke Don Mario’s Song
ID

Segment 3
ACL underwriting
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison – Born to Roll
The Bright Siders – Forever Friends (new)
ID
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Slavic Soul Party – Never Gonna Let You Go
ID
TMBG – Four of Two
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Listen on demand at our page at PRX.org!

We had a ton of fun with Trout Fishing in America coming by.  Check out this video of them performing “Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers” in our studio:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG – Zeros
Trout Fishing in America in-studio

Segment 2
Elizabeth Mitchell – You Are My Sunshine
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock!
ID
Paul Westerberg – Love You in the Fall
ScribbleJim ID
ScribbleMonster – All Ready to Go!
ID

Segment 3
Fatboy Slim – Rockafeller Skank
Alastair Moock guest DJ set
ID (mention Joanie at Carle 9/28)
TMBG – Letter/Not a Letter
TMBG – Spare the Rock