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The Boogers! Photo used with Creative Commons license.

I've been dreading the whole la la nursery rhymes thing. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? Nah, I sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat, and that's about as far as I went with nursery songs. Not only do I not know the words (ok, make that past tense thanks to a swim class), but the melodies stick in my brain and make it impossible to concentrate on anything else. And frankly, it's no big loss for her from what I can tell.

Two songs best calm her down to sleep – Winnie the Pooh and Supercalifragilisticexpialedocious and if those don't do the trick (or more accurately I am tired of singing the same thing over and over) And One and They Might Be Giants made great back-up bands.

What I really don't understand is why, when a kid is awake and bubbling full of energy, do people only seem to want to sing ho-hum folksy songs to them? All the bot wants to hear is music with a beat, and I mean a real beat, that she can dance to. So when my hairdresser, the fabulous Carrie Monster, told me about the Boogers, my eyes lit up (and no, none of my hair bleach got into my eyes). It just so happened they were playing the next weekend so we trekked down to Reggie's in Chicago to check them out.

A Finnish band that dresses as dinosaurs AND plays power metal that kids can groove to? WHY NOT?

Peelander Z is a NYC-based Japanese punk band. In their spare time, they like to hang with children in Austin and record albums.

Making up songs for babies is FUN! Making up songs for babies is FUN! But for real, have you tried it?

Billed as "music for hip moms and dads", Brian's list is definitely that.

Holy crap do our DILFs rock. We've featured a few musically inclined DILFs since we began this feature but this week's hot papa has a new spin on the prominent daddy...

So sure, there are rockstar moms … but then there are mamas who are quite literally rockstars! Like Trish Naudon here, drummer for a band out of New York City called The...

It's been a while since I featured an offbeat DILF. I got some feedback from one reader who said the feature was "so wrong and trashy" and I got a little gun-shy....