You write one profile on a local children’s band making it big and suddenly you’re thrust into the heady world of kids’ music reviewer for Gambit Weekly. I can see a future of PR agents calling and wanting to take me out for Happy Meals and legions of 7-year-olds blogging how I just don’t get it after I give Britney Spears’ kid only two gummy bears out of five for his latest album, “Visitation Days.”
I will say this: If all the kid-friendly musical offerings that come across my desk—I’m figuring I’ll get at least a couple a year—are as good as Asylum Street Spankers’ “Mommy Says No!” I won’t mind being the Alison Fensterstock to the juice-box crowd. Read the rest of this entry »