Hey new and expecting parents, listen up. My grandma used to say “If you never put salt on your corn on the cob, then you’ll never miss the delicious salty taste.”  That was her way of letting me know that it’s easier to never start practicing the vices of boozing, smoking ...

Jacksonville’s Chuck Nash and Atlanta’s Ben Rowell, collectively known as The Baby Grands, describe their style as “indie music for the whole family,” and I can’t help but agree. Though their simply titled 2010 release The Baby Grands II has a certain Zeppelin-esque ring to its moniker, the band’s sound ...

There are two things happening right now.  One involves a little boy on a piano and the other involves his brother on the guitar. There are chords and keys and melodies in the air that don’t make sense, but they are beautiful all the same.  They are a band of ...

We hear a good bit of children’s music here at GeekDad, and we’ve made it our mission to filter out the crap so you don’t have to. Let’s face it – you don’t want to listen to Raffi, and the truth is neither do we. This is why when a ...

I have been a huge fan of Internet radio for a long time. It has introduced me to many bands I’d never have heard of otherwise (whose music I went on to purchase). And network Pandora has taken the Internet radio phenom one step further, adding an excellent social media ...

These days fathers have to be ready for anything when it comes to their kids, be it a random food-fight in the kitchen or discovering they have a strange fascination with digging holes in the backyard. But what’s the plan for when they dig through your old music collection and find ...

After a number of false starts and unfortunate delays, September finally saw the release of the original soundtrack album for Disney’s smash animated series Phineas and Ferb. As this is one of only a handful of shows that continually garners nigh-universal acclaim from GeekDads across the board, I was thrilled ...

Does the song “Wheels on the Bus” make you want to drive the bus off a cliff?  Is another round of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” about to send you to the funny farm? While parents and children may not share the same taste in music, almost everyone agrees that ...

I told my daughter McDonald's burned down – all over the place - and that we can never go there again.Why? Because of the Kidz Bop CD’s they were giving out with the Happy Meals.For the last 9 months after her Ballet class I’ve always taken her t...