Press

Accolades

Parents’ Choice 2011 Holiday Gift Guide – Absolutely Mindy’s Absolute Favorite Music of 2011 – Best Song for a Stocking Stuffer – I Think I’m A Bunny

Zooglobble – Best Kids Music 2011: Top 25 Songs – I Think I’m A Bunny

Time Out New York Kids – Best Kids Albums of 2010 – Sundays at the Rocket Park

Sirius/XM Kids Place Live #1 Song – “I Think I’m a Bunny” for 7 weeks and “Top 13 under 13″ – “I Think I’m a Bunny” for 36 weeks

Reviews

“A Kindie Rock Gamechanger.”
Out With The Kids

“Their sound is overflowing with authenticity, creativity and a unique sense of humor.”
Kids Can Groove

“The idea of combining Henriques’ jazz and showtune sensibility and McHatton’s psychedelic kindie was not obvious to me when I first heard of it, but their shared taste for nifty wordplay (“is rogue in vogue this year?”) and their well-matched vocal tones shows that this could be very fruitful.”
Zooglobble

“Kindie Rock Superstars sucked into an animated world… cruising the land on motorcycles straight out of EASY RIDER… jamming some tunes as… toons.”
The Rockfather Magazine

“Together their music sounds like a mix of the Flaming Lips, the Beatles and a little bit o’ Queen”
Kids Can Groove

“These guys are both amazing on their own, but magic happens when they get together.”
Geekmom

“There’s never been anything quite like this before.”
Out With The Kids

“…brilliant. Oh so shiny.”
Zooglobble

“Together they will no doubt create a force of kindie power that will skyrocket to imaginary worlds that surpass your wildest hallucinations.”
Super Sonic Kids

“Todd McHatton is seemingly never at a loss for imaginative lyrics and ear-catching tunes. This time around, he presents his ideas as a sort of alternate universe TV variety show for kids, starring Marvy Monstone. Todd McHatton Presents Marvy Monstone’s Mysterious Fun Time Dream Band celebrates friendships, curiosity, wonder, and silliness via some great psychedelic pop tunes, perfect for the whole music-loving family. Definitely some of the best kids’ music of 2012.”
About.com

“A lively and humorous album for puppet-loving youngsters.”
Beverly Wrigglesworth, San Antonio Public Library, TX

“…you and your kids will fall in love, even more in love, with Hazel and Marvy and Todd and the rest of the gang, and start to develop a meaningful long-term friendship with them, much like what you now have with Grover, Kermit, Elmo, and the like.”
OWTK

“Expect them to delight in tunes like the story-song “The Plan with The Crystal & The Bear” and the sing-along-ready ”Here’s The Thing” – all over the sound of Todd’s well-crafted piano pop.”
Nugget Island

“It’s … awesome. Like Jim Henson meets The Shins or something.”
FitsNews

“I’m filled with that level of poor-decision-making passion and sugar-rush excitement because this album is a flat out wonder.
I’ve said it before but it bears repeating: McHatton may be the one kindie artist that a hipster site like Pitchfork or Stereogum would take to, because there isn’t much on the surface that would identify his music as kid-oriented.
And musically speaking, the songs on “Galactic Champions of Joy” unabashedly wear their master’s Harry Nilsson/Beatles/impeccably crafted psychedelic pop influences on their sleeves…”
OWTK

“Todd McHatton’s Galactic Champions of Joy is a wickedly addictive bouillabaisse of family-friendly kindie ‘tude and old-school pop geekery, rolled into fine layers and stacked into infinity.”
Dadnabbit

“If parts of Galactic Champions of Joy feel a little bit like a daydream, that’s entirely appropriate. The imaginative life of a child can be every bit as important as the concrete day-to-day details, maybe more so, so an album that dives deep into those ideas should be valued. Most families will enjoy at least part of it, but some families will probably find this to be one of their most beloved albums. Recommended.”
Zooglobble

“Todd McHatton’s Galactic Champions of Joy is certainly a challenging and dense listen, but is ultimately an entertaining and rewarding, musical experience. So, for all those kids’ albums that seem a little too simple and contrived, there exist CDs such as Galactic Champions of Joy, some of the best Kids’ Music of 2011, full of music that’ll make the entire family think as well as rock out.”
About.com

“We described Todd’s last album as “one of those rare releases that you can play from start to finish.” Once again, he delivers. This album is hard for parents to tire of, full of college radio-style rock for the whole family. Added bonus: a song called ‘I Think I’m A Bunny.'”
Nugget Island

“After you ponder that eye-grabbing album title, give Todd McHatton’s latest kids’ music release a listen or two or three. Galactic Champions of Joy is a musically dense, lyrically adventurous chunk of psychedelic pop that parents will love as much as, if not more than, their young rockers.”
Child Care

“McHatton takes musical cues from the likes of Harry Nilsson, Weezer, Electric Light Orchestra, Paul McCartney, Stone Temple Pilots, and “I Am the Walrus”-era Beatles, among others, and creates his own unique brand of driving, swirling, and super catchy pop music full of imaginative characters.”
About.com

“This new Todd McHatton album is trippy fantastical brilliant and expansive…like lost b-sides to a “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” single…this sounds like the inside of a child’s fertile mind.”
Chris Ballew – The Presidents of the United States of America and Caspar Babypants

“Todd McHatton’s dense, psychedelic pop is unlike any kids’ music you’ve ever heard. The closest approximation might be a cross between Magical Mystery Tour-era Beatles and Harry Nilsson…”
About.com

“This is one of our favorite songs…. I Think I’m a Bunny. We crack up. You’ll get it stuck in your head.”
Crystal & Co.

“Sundays at the Rocket Park, is our pick of the week! Lightly psychedelic pop, sprinkled with well measured doses of glam rock and power pop, inspired by, and made for his family.”
Pied Piper Radio

“A wildly entertaining mix of pschedelic, family-friendly pop songs.”
Radio Ojai