{"id":576,"date":"2007-09-06T07:38:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T14:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/the-next-big-thing-in-kids-music\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:12:22","slug":"the-next-big-thing-in-kids-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/the-next-big-thing-in-kids-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The next big thing in kids music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\nThe Sippy Cups on stage<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/thesippycups.jpg\" alt=\"The Sippy Cups on Stage\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nIf you happen to be the parent of an under 8 year old, you might want to know about this&#8230;Over the weekend, we went to family day at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baymeadows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Bay Meadows<\/a> to hear the kids band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesippycups.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >The Sippy Cups<\/a> play. It was a bunch of fun (and hats off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baymeadows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Bay Meadows<\/a> for making the infield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollapalooza.com\/\">Lollapalooza<\/a> for kids.) While I find most kids music repellent, the stuff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesippycups.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >The Sippy Cups<\/a> played was tolerable and some of it was even, I dare say, good!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo calibrate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesippycups.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >The Sippy Cups<\/a> are doing largely soft-punk, 1980&#8217;s vintage kids tunes. Some are straight covers and some are original tunes with the same flavor. My favorite was a cover of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramones.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Ramones<\/a> tune &#8220;I want to be sedated&#8221; with the lyrics changed to be kid friendly &#8220;I want to be elated.&#8221; If you&#8217;re bored of the same old kid music crap, check them out. The CD Electric Storyland is highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sippy Cups on stage If you happen to be the parent of an under 8 year old, you might want to know about this&#8230;Over the weekend, we went to family day at Bay Meadows to hear the kids band The Sippy Cups play. It was a bunch of fun (and hats off to Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}