THE CHILLS are:

Mortimus Greely: guitars, lutes, howls, mutterings

Stanislav Blatz:  pianos, harpsichords, various organs

Boogs Greenburg:  bass, vial, utterings

T-Bone Mandible:  drums and destruction

The Chills rose from the putrid depths of obscurity after Brainy Tunes founder

Ira Marlowe unearthed two startling truths:

1) Many kids over five love to be scared, grossed out, and otherwise tormented. 

2) This need is being heroically met in the print media (Lemony Snicket, Goosebumps, Harry Potter...) and by countless films, video games, cartoons and TV shows.  Yet there’s a disturbing dearth of scary music for kids.  (An online search dredges up only a few moldering classics like “The Monster Mash” and “Put a Spell On You”. ) 

Enter The Chills.

 

Manager Igor Finkelstein describes them as “An Un-dead version of The Village People”, with the cop, the cowboy, the army man, and the construction worker replaced by a ghoul, a gnome, a zombie, and some unlucky drummer’s skeletal remains.  

But fans of Brainy Tunes know The Chills are more than just a creepy novelty act.  Marlowe’s stated goal has always been to make kids’ music that’s “too darn good for kids”, aiming for a level of lyrical and melodic quality on par with the very best of what their parents enjoy.

Yes, dare to say it: Enjoy.  Take a deep breath, grab the hands of your children, and open the creaky door to this world.  Suffer the Blob, flee the Mummy, tiptoe through the cemetery, get some geometry tutoring from the Boy with Two Heads .  Kids will enter this crumbling mansion for the tingles and the giggles, but they’ll come out with a whole crypt of exciting new knowledge and vocabulary.  Don’t worry, they will come out.   But they won’t be quite the same.