Sunday, December 21, 2008

Let's All Come and Play with DJ Lance Rock Today

"It feels as if a couple of LA slackers with mates in the business have put the show together and asked their chums to come along. Which is pretty much what happened. The show is the brainchild of Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, who’ve been playing in bands on the fringes of the city’s scene for years. Jacobs is a child actor turned front man for ska-punk outfit the Aquabats; Schultz is the singer with indie strummers Majestic. They came up with the idea after Jacobs’s child refused to eat his carrots. To persuade him that the other food he’d eaten was hosting a party in his stomach and that the carrots were missing out on the fun, he wrote the catchy There’s a Party in My Tummy. It’s a tight piece of pop techno with a call-and-response chorus: 'Cheese! Yeah. In my tummy. Party, party. Yeah. There’s a party in my tummy. So yummy! So yummy!' It’s like the Beastie Boys doing Sesame Street."

Stephen Armstrong in The Times discusses children's TV show, and Late Adopter, Jr., favorite, Yo Gabba Gabba.

And in November 2009, Bret Asbury praises the show in Slate.

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