StarFish is an American rock band for children from

Maplewood, New Jersey Maplewood is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is an inner-ring suburban bedroom community of New York City in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's popula ...

. The band's five members are StingRay (lead vocals and guitar); Grateful Dave (Dave Hartkern) (drums and vocals), Moose (Marc Stern) (lead guitar), Dr. Yes (Mark Asch) (keyboards and vocals) and AntFarm (Antar Goodwin) (bass guitar). Their first CD, StarFish Rocks! was reviewed by Cookie magazine, which called StarFish a "fantastic example" of a " new wave" of artists making smart music for kids today" Their two albums have been described as having influences in

classic rock Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on comm ...

groups such as

Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical style has varied throughout their career. Originally for ...

, Cream, Yes, and

Pink Floyd Pink Floyd are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experiments ...

, but marketed towards a family audience.

Discography

* 2008: Rocks * 2010: Enter Sandbox

External links

* http://www.worldsoundkids.com/starfish/ * http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2010/05/five_jersey_fathers_form_a_kid.html

Notes

Rock music groups from New Jersey American children's musical groups Musical groups from Essex County, New Jersey {{US-rock-band-stub