Rolie Polie Guacamole

Jersey natives Frank Gallo & Andrew Tuzhilin created Rolie Polie Guacamole in 2006 while living in Brooklyn, NY.  Over the next 15 years, they played thousands of shows, recorded thirteen albums.

Winner of the prestigious Parents’ Choice® and NAPPA Awards, Rolie Polie Guacamole has developed a smart, parent-friendly musical style that dresses up original tunes and classic covers with vibrant harmonies and deft instrumental layers, plugging in a sizzling electric current of rhythm that lights up lyrics humming with relevance and humor.

Wrote Trevor Gage of Boston’s WERS-FM, “When you think of kids’ music, what do you see? Freddy Spaghetti? A jaded hipster in a colorful costume alluding to some bizarre form of Brazilian anime? Rolie Polie Guacamole skips stones over those clichés and splashes onto the scene with a technically savvy and imaginative sound that speaks to children and reminds their parents of the golden age of 1990s music”.

Their 7th album Avocado came out just in time for the pandemic shutdown and was a hit among fans stuck in their homes with young ones. Songs like Avocado, A Pizza Pie, A Very Quiet Song, & Fire Truck (Steve Albini Mix) made Avocado the bands most popular album to date.

As the pandemic subsided the band released over 60 new songs between October 2022 - November 2023 which became four new albums. The records feature producer Dean Jones (vocals, synth, drums, trombone and more) Rossen Nedelchev  (drums) Katie Mullins  (vocals) Jane Scarpantoni (cello).

On January 19, 2024 the band released their 11th album “Diggin' in The Dirt” and simultaneously Recess Therapy released a video called "How to make a #1 hit song in a day".  In it host Julian Shapiro-Barnum asks “a kid” Ike to list his three favorite artists. Ike responds "Rolie Polie Guacamole, Tom Petty, & The Beatles." It instantly went viral with over 70 million views across YouTube, Tik Tok & Instagram.  It has since taken on a life of its own and been remixed and posted hundreds of millions of times, thanks to accounts like Kurtymac!! 
The band  quickly cowrote the rest of Ike's song “Yum Yum Yum I Love A Tasty Dinner” and recorded it along with “Library Ghost” which was released as a B-side.  This pushed the band into full production mode and a year later their 12th album “On the Stoop” dropped in (May 2025).  

The band simultaneously recorded “Rockamole” an album the likes of which kindie has never seen.   It was Frank & Andrew’s way of coping with the loss of their mentor & friend Steve Albini.  They recorded it at his famed studio "Electrical Audio" in Chicago, with their good friend Taylor Hales at the helm. Rockamole has double bass drum on every it’s truly an uncompromising rock juggernaut that the whole family is sure to enjoy (Oct 31, 2025).

Discography: 

Rockamole (2025)
On The Stoop (2025)
Diggin' in the Dirt (2024)
Saturday Morning (2023)
Earworms (2023)
Family Jams (2023)
Avocado (2020) 
Like Father Like Son - Sun is a Star (2018)
Live on the Fourth of July (2016) 
Chips and Salsa (2015) 
Triathlon (2014, Parents’ Choice Fun Stuff Award®)
Houses Of The Moly (2012, Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award®, NAPPA Honors Award)
Time For Hummus (2010)
Rolie Polie Guacamole (2008)