The Candy Band
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The Candy Band is a punk rock
band designed specifically to appeal to children. It is composed of four Detroit area moms who were tired of what they deemed wimpy music for kids. They took a stand, and in 2003 formed The Candy Band, playing punk covers of nursery rhymes, movie themes and other children's favorites, along with original tunes.
With influences like the Ramones
and Iggy Pop
, they quickly attracted attention from the Wall Street Journal, New York Post
, The Times
, Blender Magazine, XM Radio, Woman's Day
, USA Today
, People Magazine, the CBS Early Show, and the NBC Today Show. Their first album, Candy Band, was released in 2003. It was followed by More Candy in 2004, Lollipunk in 2005, and Calling All Kids in 2007.
The band continues to build an intense local following, performing at schools, festivals, libraries, and the occasional bar. In addition, they have appeared on Washington DC's Pancake Mountain TV show, the Vans Warped Tour and played the "Kidzapalooza" stage at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
In 2009, Candy Band began recording their fifth album at Rustbelt Studios, with engineer Al Sutton. The album, High Five, will be released in May 2010.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band designed specifically to appeal to children. It is composed of four Detroit area moms who were tired of what they deemed wimpy music for kids. They took a stand, and in 2003 formed The Candy Band, playing punk covers of nursery rhymes, movie themes and other children's favorites, along with original tunes.
With influences like the Ramones
Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first punk rock group...
and Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
, they quickly attracted attention from the Wall Street Journal, New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
, The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, Blender Magazine, XM Radio, Woman's Day
Woman's Day
Woman's Day is aimed at a female readership, covering such subjects as food, nutrition, fitness, beauty and fashion. The magazine edition is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines....
, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, People Magazine, the CBS Early Show, and the NBC Today Show. Their first album, Candy Band, was released in 2003. It was followed by More Candy in 2004, Lollipunk in 2005, and Calling All Kids in 2007.
The band continues to build an intense local following, performing at schools, festivals, libraries, and the occasional bar. In addition, they have appeared on Washington DC's Pancake Mountain TV show, the Vans Warped Tour and played the "Kidzapalooza" stage at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
In 2009, Candy Band began recording their fifth album at Rustbelt Studios, with engineer Al Sutton. The album, High Five, will be released in May 2010.