Stephen Star, Los Angeles based
composer and leader of the Star Kids Music Club, has released his
full-length album, “Star Kids Music Club Presents: Pop Rock” as
half of a two-part release.
Stephen Star, Los
Angeles based composer and leader of the Star Kids Music Club, has
released his full-length album, “Star Kids Music Club Presents: Pop
Rock” as half of a two-part release. This digital record has a
classic-rock tone in the tradition of rock n' roll's best pop
performers from the American fifties, sixties and seventies, covering
such widely varied and popular styles as that of the Beach Boys, the
Beatles, Queen, Roy Orbison, Chuck Barry, David Bowie, the Kinks, and
much more. The music of Star Kids Music Club is intended to fill the
gap between music for toddlers (such as Sesame Street) and music for
adults, much like the work of alternative music geniuses They Might
Be Giants, and easily as effective. Like other releases from the Star
Kids Music Club, each track is not only expertly performed and
engineered, but also so cleverly written and catchy that adult
listeners will often find themselves wishing that the pop rock
churned out by the music industry for adults were more comparable to
it in terms of all-around quality and musicianship.
Star's lyrics in
“SKMC Presents: Pop Rock” are entirely original and brilliantly
written. True to the heart and soul of rock n' roll, Star's lyrics in
his “Pop Rock” edition are less humorous than the themes found on
his “Country Pop” Star Kids Music Club record, opting instead for
lines about courageousness, character, confidence, feelings, and
friendship, as well as a slough of others. True also to the high
quality of the Star Kids... line of record releases, each of Stephen
Star's carefully crafted lines sounds natural in cadence, rhyme and
meter, his diction careful without sounding forced. His balanced use
of poetic devices such as symbolism, alliteration and assonance make
for extremely enjoyable listening, as well as an excellent
introduction to higher writing skills for growing boys and girls.
Star's writing is some of the best available, either for adults or
for children.
Stephen Star is
not new to music, nor to the study of human intellectual development.
A Grammy-nominated songwriter, he also has a working educational
background in sociology and psychology. He is a graduate of
Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, and has worked for years with music
professionals worldwide. Of his goal as a songwriter, Star writes,
“Kids need songs to open their minds, and to provide them with
positive messages from a friend. I wrote [this record] to be an album
that kids, their friends, and their parents can listen to together,
opening a line of communication about the topics in the songs.”
The music on
“Star Kids Music Club Presents: Pop Rock” succeeds at this as
well as the other Star Kids records – perhaps even a little better,
if that's possible, owing to the sheer variety of tone available from
the pop rock genre – and it belongs on the same top shelf with the
best music for kids available today. Parents would do very well to
give “SKMC Presents: Pop Rock” a listen, and also to pay
attention to the other half of the Star Kids Music Club twin release,
“Country Pop.”
-Sean McCauley
MondoTunes Staff Writer
The LP “Star Kids Music Club
Presents: Pop Rock” is distributed globally by MondoTunes
(www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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