November 19, 2006
Indie Kids
Today The Times reported on the youngins rocking the New York scene.
Bands like Magnolia, Care Bears on Fire (pictured), Tiny Masters of Today, Fiasco and Hysterics are all part of this young band scene sprouting up in Park Slope, many are 10 to 17 years old. New York Magazine recently reported on Care Bears on Fire, who wrote a song called “Don’t Wanna Be Like Everybody Else” - these kids didn't want to be on the soccer team. Their music is also an act of rebelling against what most of their peers may listen to (Kelly Clarkson, et al) and playing music that matches many of their peers in the New York music scene.
Union Hall booker, Skippy, had this to say to the Times:
“Oh my god, there’s like a huge, huge kid-rock scene here,” said Jack McFadden, known as Skippy, who booked the show at Union Hall. “It’s really very indicative of Park Slope, since so many of the parents who live around here are hip and have these hip little kids that they dress in, like, CBGBs T-shirts.”It makes sense: in this family-friendly part of Brooklyn every other brownstone seems to house creative professionals who urge their children to march to — or become — a different drummer.
One of those bands, Tiny Masters of Today, played a show we co-hosted with ProductshopNYC at CBGB earlier this year. The kids seemed to channel many of the bands to play the CBGB stage before them. The future of the New York music scene sounds pretty good.
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"Don't Wanna Be Like Everybody Else." Nope -- just wanna be like all the other grup-raised children in Park Slope.
never trust a grown man named Skippy.
Also, ask him where my records are.
The funny thing is that the kids rock. Even BP Fallon (www.bpfallon.com) had them at Death Disco.
am i mistaken.. or is fiasco a local, too-late discopunk band comprised of far-from teenage members.
The Times is really on to a new phenomenon here. Kids like to start bands? Who knew?! Next thing they will tell us you can now get an "electrified" guitar that uses an "amplifier".
More reasons I'm happy I don't live in Park Slope....
I remember when I started a teenage rock band...
My mom didn't do all of our booking, PR, buy all of our equipment, buy a van and drive us all over the place, network for us, design and sell merch, check the do-rags on the mics...
BITCH. WTF was she doing while we were trying to catapult our band to mega-stardom? Oh, right. She was either working or busy having her own dreams instead of maniplulating us to fulfill her broken ones.
Reason #442 why I hate Park Slope:
It's too difficult to determine who I hate more, hipster kids or their poser parents....
Boy, these kids probably whine less than most of these commenters. Hipster kids are infinitely preferable to loser adults.
Anything that gets kids away from a tv set has to be a good thing.