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February 21, 2020 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Regurgitator’s Pogogo Show’s The Really, Really, Really, Really Boring Album

If you were an Australian teenager in the 90’s, there’s a good chance that Regurgitator was the sound of your youth. Or, so I’m told. I was not an Australian teenager, and Regurgitator didn’t quite make it to my sphere;...

November 7, 2019 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review Nali & Friends by Dan Sultan

This post may contain affiliate links. Dan Sultan, the ARIA award winning musician, is best known for his rock/country/soul adult music. Earlier this year, he spread his wings (pun intended) into children’s music with the story and song album, Nali...

July 31, 2019 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of “Winterland” by the Okee Dokee Brothers

Our Northern Hemisphere friends may be sweltering in summer, but down here in Australia, we still have a few more weeks of winter. On chilly, rainy days like the one we’re having today in Sydney, celebrating the coldest season ins’t...

June 6, 2019 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Lullabies of Broadway, Act II by Mimi Bessette

Never has a warmer voice come out of my speakers than Mimi Bessette’s. If your family can use a little help winding down before naps or bedtime, her Lullabies of Broadway Act II is the musical pairing for fluffy PJs...

March 22, 2019 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of “All the Sounds” by Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats

The Grammy Awards took place a few weeks ago. Now, I’m sure Kasey Musgrove and Childish Gambino are fine (kidding, I know they’re great), but here in Artsplorers world, there’s clearly only one category we really had our eyes on...

February 7, 2019 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Scratch ‘N’ Sniff by The Sticker Club

I’ve always been a bit of an old soul in terms of musical taste, so the sweet 60’s inspired pop sound of The Sticker Club hits me right in my toe-tapping retro happy place. Oh, and the kids seem to...

November 30, 2018 No Responses

6 Great Kids’ Christmas Albums for the Whole Family

For the “Listening Ears On!” kid’s music series, I usually review just one album, so, I thought I’d choose a single kids’ Christmas album this month. That was quite obviously impossible, so instead, I picked 6 of the jazziest, roc...

October 30, 2018 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: A Review of Keep It Real by Caspar Babypants

A disco hippo, an bubble trying to stay out of trouble, penguins in California, a dancing flower, and a robot with a lot of feelings: These clever creatures (along with that rainbow unicorn on the album cover) are a pretty...

September 27, 2018 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: Review of Bunny Rumble by Bunny Racket

Did your rock and roll days screech to a halt when you became a parent? I know, I know! We all used to be so much cooler! But, young kids and rock music can just feel so incompatible. True story...

August 28, 2018 No Responses

Listening Ears On!: Storytime Singalong Volumes 1 & 2 by Emily Arrow

Between Book Week and Love Your Bookshop Day, I was deep into the wonderful world of children’s books this month. Not to waste a good theme, I had the idea that, surely, someone must have done an album about children’s...

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