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Video: "Little Lap Dog Lullaby" - Laura Veirs
Not salty, not bitter, not sour. Not even umami. Yes, this video from Laura Veirs for "Little Lap Dog Lullaby" off her fine Tumble Bee album is just sweet. All due credit to animator Helen Woolston. Laura Veirs - "Little...
KidVid Tournament 2012: The Official Pool!
In the past, when talking about the KidVid Tournament, I would inevitably make a joke about not to bet on the results as doing so could potentially be in violation of state and/or federal law. Well, I'm proud to say...
Announcing KidVid Tournament 2012
The KidVid Tournament 2012 is (almost) here! That's right, folks, the web's most popular fan-based tournament for the arbitrary qualitative ranking of kids music videos is back! For the sixth straight year, the best kids music videos of the previous...
Please Release Me: March 2012 Edition
It's time again for the latest list of new and upcoming releases, (here is last month's list). Additions to the list are noted with a "++"; changes to previously-mentioned items are indicated with italics. As always, if I've listed you...
Review: Musical iPad Apps for Kids
I know. I know. I agree with you: instead of playing music on the iPad, kids should be using honest-to-goodness instruments, including those instruments known as their own voices. But sometimes kids want to play on the iPad and if.....
Video: "States and Capitals" - Musical Stew
I really enjoyed Musical Stew's song "States and Capitals" -- see, it's there on my radio station playlist from earlier this week. It's from their self-titled 2007 debut. But this new video for the song takes it up to a...
Radio Playlist: New Music February 2012
Time again to update the Zooglobble radio station, covering assorted tracks collected in the first couple months or so of 2012. (You can see my January 2012 playlist here.) This playlist airs in the mid-afternoons (West Coast time), but if...
Itty-Bitty Review: Rock-O-Matic - Imagination Movers
It took me a little while to appreciate the Imagination Movers -- in their early, pre-Disney years, I didn't hear anything particularly special in their music. Not bad, by any means, just nothing... noteworthy. But writing songs for your TV...
My Favorite Kids Music Videos of 2011
Picking my favorite kids music videos gets harder every year. I've picked 25 here, but featured at least 3 times that number on the site (a figure which itself is a culling of many more videos). There are another half-dozen...
Video: "Noun Town" - Doctor Noize (Grammaropolis)
Doctor Noize is a busy guy. Not only has he just released The Return of Phineas McBoof, his second album about the title character, and he coaches his daughters' soccer team, but on March 4, he's releasing Grammaropolis, an album...
Monday Morning Smile: "Me and Paul Revere" - Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers originally released "Me and Paul Revere" as a single for the 4th of July 2011 -- an apropos date given the song's subject -- Paul Revere's ride told from the perspective of his...
Kickstarter Update: The Kindie Crowd-Funding Continues
Not sure why, but these Kickstarter kids music projects come in clumps. Another fine batch of kindie projects from Kickstarter and its kin, so let's hop to it. First up is the Kickstarter project from New York's Shine and the...
Video: "Pancake Smackdown" - Gustafer Yellowgold
Rejoice! It's time for another humorous Gustafer Yellowgold video with food as its subject! This time it's "Pancake Smackdown," and it's the first, er, taste of the forthcoming Gustafer Yellowgold CD/DVD set Gustafer Yellowgold's Year in the Day, out April...
Gustavo Dudamel and Elmo: Not Quite Stupendous. But Fun.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic's wunderkind conductor Gustavo Dudamel ticked off the first of the two major pop icon checkmarks (the other would be being namechecked on The Simpsons) when he got an appearance with Sesame Street's Elmo to discuss the...
Monday Morning Smile: "Needing/Getting" - OK Go
If OK Go's songs were as consistently entertaining as their videos, they would be the world's biggest band. As it stands, they are merely the world's biggest conceptual artists. I mean, they created a video in which they play the...
Kindiefest 2012: This Time With Pizza
It's true -- Kindiefest is coming back for the 2012 edition, and the fine folks running the show promise pizza this year. What's that? You can get pizza where you live? Well, how about Dan Zanes, Kathy O'Connell, Mindy Thomas,...
Listen To This: "Why Is Dad So Mad?" - The Board of Education
It has been Way. Too. Long. since we've heard new music from Seattle's literate kid-rockers The Board of Education, but we can now rejoice in this, a new song. Titled "Why Is Dad So Mad?," it's a frantic rocker dealing...
Video: "My Flea Has Dogs" - Caspar Babypants
Whew. It had been more than three months since the last video from Caspar Babypants. I was kinda getting worried. But never fear, CB's back with a retro-styled video for "My Flea Has Dogs" from his latest album Sing Along!....
Monday Morning Smile: "The Star Spangled Banner" (Live at the 1991 Super Bowl) - Whitney Houston
So, like a lot of folks, we spent a little time exploring videos featuring Whitney Houston this weekend in the wake of her death on Saturday afternoon. We did so with the kids -- they didn't have any questions about...
Please Release Me: February 2012 Edition
It's time again for an updated list of new and upcoming releases, (and by "updated," I mean "updating last month's list.") Additions to the list are noted with a "++"; changes to previously-mentioned items are indicated with italics. As always,...
