Shisho are cute yet badly sung. Their track "Courtney sat on a rock" is described as "rainbow jumpin' kid core!" and features the lyrics "Courtney got bit on the butt and she cried and she cried". Albeit possibly the coolest kids in school, the two girls that perform herein, Midge and Vivian, are led by the mysterious Professor Peushu which is just wrong if you ask me. They are working on an under-18s record label and download site, bless them. Adorable, if a little irritating – Repeat Fanzine

Two kid sisters singing to a background track, and simple as it sounds, they blow my mind. Nick stumbled upon their show at Cornerstone and got their demo and I swear, it almost made me cry how hard I was laughing at how brilliant and funny their lyrics are. These kids are geniouses. If they ever put it on their myspace, check out the song "Rocks n' Penalties". It's a gem. – Day Tripper

Shisho, While their name sounds like a Buddhist chant, these goofballs offer crazy mixes that are awesome, fun, mega-silly. They cover the Mike Knott tune, "Daddy's Womp" and do a "basement Mash-Up" mix called "Disco Brandtson." I told you they were crazy.. - HM Magazine

Shisho are an amazing pair of pre-teens from Ohio whose lo-fi keyboard kidpop is literally fantastic on 'Rocks and Penalties' where a blow on the head sends them riffing about unicorns eating rainbows at a Smiths reunion concert. - SOUNDS XP

have released an online single called "Get Behind me Santa". The title song is wonderful, but even better is their cover version of The Dead Milkmen's "Punk Rock Girl", though it's not a christmas song. With influences like The Dead Milkmen I'm sure they'll grow up to make lots more great music in the future. Thanks to Mira El Péndulo for pointing them out to me. – Indie mp3

…cute and not in a too annoying way. I love the squeaky voice in the middle telling the "jokes. – Small Ages Blog

Saturday night-Toledo Indie POP festival: this was lots of fun. a great collection of bands from the midwest played. my favorite band and the highlight of my tour so far was Shi Sho--a two piece kid band. imagine two adorable girls in cool sunglasses singing along to an ipod (run by dad i think). my favorite song was "courtney sat on a rock" it was about how she got bit on the butt by a spider. i also liked their last song about unicorns eating a rainbow but the rainbow was poisonous so they got sick. they couldnt take the unicorns to the clinic because the clinic was on the other side of the rainbow and the rainbow was half eaten. luckily the smiths reunited in this song so morrisey took the unicorns to the clinic with his magical flight powers. stellar song. -Arrah

Laid back pop grooves, out of tune teenage-girly-vocals and silly lyrics. Catchy and annoying in equal measures. Eminently slappable, yet subversively endearing. There should be laws against this sort of thing...oh, there are! – The Mag UK

Ok, there is a band in Columbus, very obscure..they are 2 little girls..you have to listen to their song "rocks n penalties", seems to be inspired by the smiths/moz. I caught it on a local college radio show… Oh, the band is called "shisho". – Desmoface

ShiSho are described as "kid-core". If The Lord exists, he knows how wrong this would be, and it is that wrong. But "Rocks and Penalties" is, simply, genius. More fully, it is a work of deeply wrong genius, and you owe it to yourself, to lil sis Midge, to big sis Vivian, to their mentor Professor PeuSheu- you probably aren't a made-up person but I'm not sure about the other three - to hear it. You get to find out how Morrissey saved the Unicorns. – Repeat Fanzine

twee electro of Shisho including the kindergarten sing a-long, 'Courtney Sat On A Rock' with its candy cute melody and lyrics of, "Courtney sat on a rock and she smiled and she smiled, Courtney got bit on the butt and she cried and she cried". It may be simple, but its bright beats mirror the cheerful and blissfully simple premise of the singles club - 5 brightly coloured 7-inch singles that are sure to cheer up your record player. 'Rocks And Penalties', Shisho's second track is so daft that it makes you laugh out loud, two young children talk about The Smiths and unicorns eating rainbows, it's just barmy genius! – Room Thirteen

ShiSho est un trio originaire de l'Ohio, composé de Midge ( 5 ans), Vivian ( 8 ans), et de leur mentor et éminence grise, le mystérieux Professeur Peushu. Deux petites filles qui jouent du rock indé, on pense évidemment aux délicieuses Smoosh de Seattle. La différence, c'est que Smoosh jouent leurs propres morceaux, tandis que chez ShiSho, le Professeur Peushu ( leur papa ?) s'occupe de tout, ce qui ôte évidemment une partie du charme de cette entreprise. – ROCKOMONDO

Oh dear...two pre-teen girls and their dad with a White Stripes fetish. None of those ingredients are a good thing and the end result is a disaster. I just don't find anything cute about hearing basement-recorded guitar and drum machine, with two bratty moppets talk-singing about being "creeped out" being watched by Santa Claus. I'm sure the daddy here thinks it's clever exploiting his children and having them pish all over a childhood tradition in the name of being uber hip, but for me, it was a disgrace. This single is available for free download on their website, since clearly nobody anywhere would pay for something this leftfield. There's also a bonus mp3 on the site, a cover version of the Dead Milkmen's "Punk Rock Girl" -- a remake so awful, you just won't believe your ears. Just when I thought nothing could be worse than sitting through Rock Jack's "Toilet Master", this. If your idea of bad kids music is Ricky Segall, you ain't heard nothin' yet. If you simply must hear kids performing music, stick with Smoosh and Dev2.0. Even for free, I felt ripped off. Get behind me, ShiSho... SkinnyRobbie

EP 1 gives us Shisho, two toddlers rhyming off time about Morrissey and Unicorns eating rainbows set to day-glo kid-core. Believe us it sounds even madder than it reads and is part heinous, part genius. – Is This Music is a mighty split between ShiSho and Hyper bubble - which is pardon the vernacular the absolute dog's bollocks. First there was the adorable Kitty, Daisy and Lewis with their 50's Hawaiian bop, then the bunking off school 'better than the White Stripes' (blimey did we just say that- okay then maybe not quite but certainly piddling in the same vintage styled old school pond) Tiny Masters of the Today and now ShiSho. Kooky name kooky kids - ShiSho are a couple of Columbus based perky pre-teen punkster ladies (in fact their sisters Vivian [10] and lil' sis Midge [7]) who along with the mysterious Professor PeuShu (honest I am not making this up) appear to be knocking the most in tuned and informed of the underground set sideways and bandy and who can blame them. As cute as buttons are these two tracks - deranged and fey admittedly but adorably infectious. 'Courtney sat on a rock' a tale of a school bullying minx by the name of Courtney (obviously) is just dippy, in no - screwball, wonderfully naive in both sound and delivery, a bit like a warped on e numbers and additives Shaggs lost in some surreal kaleidoscopic kindergarten paper mache and fuzzy felt exercise featuring Sesame Street and Peanuts. Can't for the life of me think why but I did find myself whistling Sebadoh's 'gimme indie rock' afterwards though all said and done you need to hear this just for Midge's wonkily out of tune vocal. 'Rocks and Penalties' ups the ante considerably, (parents you really must stop lacing their jellies and fairy cakes with mind bending substances) name checking wikipedia and (frequently) the Smiths while recanting a bizarre fuzzy edged tale of unicorns, rainbows and our hero of the hour Morrissey flanked by angels no less (again don't ask) - all replete with your standard new waved riffs and pre school growls though if like me you'll positively choke yourself laughing at the 'kids do not try this at home' introduction to the brief guitar solo mid way through. Go to their website for not only White Stripes (second mention - we are on a commission though not as big as the N*E) pastiche sleeves and portions of fizzy pop, jelly and general zany chit chat but also a chance to download a plethora of mp3's including a cover of Sufjan Stevens 'Get behind me Satan', a live set culled from last years Gratis Fest along with a shed load of pod casts that frankly at times sound like they were wired up and put together in the daft as a brush mindset of the late Kenny Everett and features a listening party special playing the free to download 'Down to Grease on holiday' compilation (a tribute to Grease as in Travolta and Newton John which originally saw the light of the day last year). Your new favourite band - don't bet against it. Expect a whole album later in the year around thanks giving no doubt or maybe the summer holidays who knows. It's therefore a tall order asking Hyperbubble to follow that…" – Losing Today

Shisho are six-year-old Midge and 9-year-old Vivian, together with the mysterious Professor PueShu, who dash through 'Rock'n'Roll Is Here To Stay' with schoolyard punkish energy. Smoosh, you're already too old! –Sounds XP