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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. Agent Vlad Shapiro pitches 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, climb inside the Brat Machine, grab a bowling ball and take aim at those Little Men. Kids will enter this crumbling mansion for the tingles and the giggles, but they ll come out with a whole crypt of exciting knowledge and new vocabulary. Don t worry, they will come out. But they won t be quite the same.