Dogstarr
Inspired
Well what types of music do you enjoy? And your wife and child? I really enjoy a lot of types myself and for long trips may go the classic route, like The Wall, or the White Album as it has some pretty kid friendly stuff on it and though we've all heard it since we were babies, today's kids don't necessarily have that same listener fatigue.
I prefer to listen to mostly indie/underground music these days being an indie/underground musician myself, not sure if it's okay to suggest a project I work with here (though we're certainly a non-profit art based project and not a product - we're also a collab, so if you, or anyone here might be interested in lending a hand, or two, feel free to let me know) and interested in hearing something pretty unique and diverse that mixes everything from techno/industrial to rock, from "spacejazz" to neo-classical and enjoy sci-fi, you might really enjoy The Archives by Omenopus, it's a Sci-fi "radioplay" concept CD, essentially telling a story with songs between, it's definitely not mainstream, but received a lot of nice reviews like this from indie press: OmenOpus - The Archives | Hifi Pig
Of course writing about music is like dancing about architecture, so here's a couple very different tracks from it:
https://soundcloud.com/omenopus/13-mirrors-the-archives
https://soundcloud.com/omenopus/stand-still-radio
And of course if your family likes heavy, you can never go wrong with Tool, but for some (mostly) instrumental Tool-like stuff that tends to be lighter, I'd suggest With Our Arms To The Sun (cool vid they did for this one too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWPlDrCzZnc
I prefer to listen to mostly indie/underground music these days being an indie/underground musician myself, not sure if it's okay to suggest a project I work with here (though we're certainly a non-profit art based project and not a product - we're also a collab, so if you, or anyone here might be interested in lending a hand, or two, feel free to let me know) and interested in hearing something pretty unique and diverse that mixes everything from techno/industrial to rock, from "spacejazz" to neo-classical and enjoy sci-fi, you might really enjoy The Archives by Omenopus, it's a Sci-fi "radioplay" concept CD, essentially telling a story with songs between, it's definitely not mainstream, but received a lot of nice reviews like this from indie press: OmenOpus - The Archives | Hifi Pig
Of course writing about music is like dancing about architecture, so here's a couple very different tracks from it:
https://soundcloud.com/omenopus/13-mirrors-the-archives
https://soundcloud.com/omenopus/stand-still-radio
And of course if your family likes heavy, you can never go wrong with Tool, but for some (mostly) instrumental Tool-like stuff that tends to be lighter, I'd suggest With Our Arms To The Sun (cool vid they did for this one too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWPlDrCzZnc