A New Climate For Indie Rockers

Can “kindie” music—an emerging genre tailored to kids and their Gen X parents—help save the planet?

Last fall, on an unseasonably warm day in Morningside Heights, I noticed a few dozen onlookers gathered around a makeshift stage in the middle of Amsterdam Avenue, bobbing their heads to a band fronted by a woman in a lantern fly costume.

She sounded sort of like a cross between Courtney Love and Raffi, singing clever children’s songs with a twinge of gr…