For over fifteen years Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child has been providing the soundtrack to thousands of childhoods around the country. The show plays “indie music for indie kids,” including the best of music aimed at kids like Dan Zanes, Moona Luna, Lunch Money, Caspar Babypants, and They Might Be Giants, right along side kid-friendly tracks from the likes of The Ramones, Ella Fitzgerald, Brian Eno, Andrew Bird, Fishbone, and more. One thing it’s not is your typical kids’ programming.
This week, we’ll hear new music from Lachi, plus songs from Gustafer Yellowgold, Koo Koo and the Shackletons, REM, Dan & Claudia Zanes, Shovels & Rope, Jackie Shane, and much more! It’s indie music for indie kids.
Visit us at sparetherock.com.
They Might Be Giants – It’s Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants – Walking My Cat Named Dog
Jackie Shane – Walking the Dog
Booker T. & the MGs – Green Onions
Gustafer Yellowgold – One’s Onions
Little Folkies – Chugga Lugga Lugg (Train a Comin’)
Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (ft. Brittney Spencer & John Paul White) – Midnight Train to Georgia
Peelander Z – Taco Taco Tacos
fIREHOSE – In Memory of Elizabeth Cotten
They Might Be Giants – Don’t Spare the Rock
Koo Koo & The Shackletons – Cat Party
Ramones – Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio
REM – Stand
The Terrible Twos – When I Get To Eleven
My Morning Jacket – Rainbow Power
Dan & Claudia Zanes – Tomorrow’s Train (ft. Steve Earle)
Lachi – I Like Me (ft. Lisa Loeb & Raul MIdon) (new)
Shovels & Rope – The Ants Go Marching
They Might Be Giants – Cells
They Might Be Giants – Spare the Rock
Episodes
