Checking In With Care Bears On Fire. . . Or At Least the
Drummer's Mom  photo by Kaysh Shinn; Izzy is the one with the
drumsticks.  Kid-band Care Bears on Fire got adult-famous last
summer when New York Magazine profiled them (and two of their
mothers) for a kind of post-Grupian trend piece about how some
would-be soccer moms were becoming rocker moms. (Or something
like that.) Then three months later, the trio of drummer/singer
Isadora “Izzy” Schappell-Spillman, guitarist/singer Sophie
Kasakove, and bassist/singer Lucio Westmoreland got even more
adult-famous when the New York Times proffered them as an
example of a larger burgeoning Brooklyn "kid-core" scene that
included under-age peers like Too Busy Being Bored, Fiasco (a
punk band whose bassist is Steve Buscemi's son Lucien), Tiny
Masters of Today (a two-thirds preteen trio with the drummer
from Jon Spencer Blues Explosion).  But all that ballyhoo was
last November. Now it's April, two months away from the end of
another school year — a decade in adult y