Create this fun cardboard tube stamp tree art project with a few simple materials! This art project is good for classroom or home settings for children ages four through eight. It is quick and easy to ...

Easy Listening is imbued with emotion, longing especially. From the initial high of rebellious celebrity on “Cover of Rolling Stone,” 2nd Grade show how life, even for youth culture idols, is ...

Further previewing the upcoming record Hit To Hit, 2nd Grade releases the carefree track “Dennis Hopper In Easy Rider.” It’s not too hard to pick up on what exactly inspired the sound of ...

This week brings my favorite record of the bunch: Easy Listening by Philadelphia band 2nd Grade. If you know the tropes of the genre, you won’t find any surprises on Easy Listening.

You can always count on 2nd Grade’s Peter Gill for bite-size power-pop gems. At 3:30, “Teenage Overpopulation,” the latest single from the band’s imminent Easy Listening, is more like ...

Philly’s 2nd Grade are students of classic power pop — the kind started in the ’70s with Raspberries, Big Star, and Cheap Trick — and make their own excellent version of it, as you can ...

Earlier this month, we got introduced to 2nd Grade, the Philadelphia group fronted by Peter Gill, with two songs, “Velodrome” and “My Bike,” that are included on the project’s upcoming ...