If you have children between the ages of 8 and 13, chances are you know Steve Burns as the host of Nickelodeon's “Blues Clues.” Burns played Steve, a 20-something guy living in a cartoon world, solving simple mysteries with the show's main character, a dog named Blue.

Burns put away his handy-dandy notebook and left the dog and the show behind a couple of years ago to pursue his real love: music. His first album, “Songs for Dustmites,” got a lot of respect in the indie-rock world, and not only because it was produced by the Flaming Lips' engineer and co-producer, Dave Fridmann.