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Putumayo comes out with a new Christmas CD, and my ears feel like they got a gift
With all due respect to the latest pop star du jour, most modern renditions of my favorite classic holiday songs leave me wishing for stronger eggnog. But now that I've started playing the Putumayo Presents awesome new A Family Christmas CD well before Thanksgiving, I've found the perfect soundtrack to take the kids and me straight through to the new year.
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If a CD can make us love Wheels on the Bus you know there's something to it
I used to want the Wheels on the Bus to fall off and roll into a ditch, but then Rhythm Child's Norman Jones and his skillful Rhythm Child Network took that broken-down bus, funked it up and turned it into something something fun and---I can't believe I'm writing this-- cool.
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Trying Funny Stuff makes me want my kids music with extra Jimmies
I don't want my kids to grow up listening to lame, easy-listening music which is why The Jimmies' fun-rock songs have been on heavy rotation since we got Make Your Own Someday, their first CD, a couple of years ago. A
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Just imagine Johnny Cash pushing a Bugaboo. That's Hullaballoo.
I don't yee-haw or two-step, although I may start after spinning Hullabaloo's country-fried, folksy High Roller a few more times. With my vote for coolest CD cover art of the year, High Roller gets my toes tapping with plenty of banjo and fiddle but what really wins me over are the lyrics.
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They Might Be Giants takes on science and like that, a whole generation of future physicists is born.
Hearing my six year old singing songs like Meet the Elements or Photosynthesis makes my geeky-heart's day, especially considering they are songs from my old favorites They Might Be Giants, on their new CD & DVD combo Here Comes Science.
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Dan Zanes outgrows the house party with The Fine Friends are Here!
My kids don't need another reason to zone out in front of the TV
which is why the energetic new DVD from Dan Zanes, great god of the kids indie rock movement, is okay by me.
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Peter Himmelman's trampoline has room for many
It's not easy to get into the mind of a kid---just watch me trying to pry "how was your day" from my eight-year-old---but LA singer-songwriter and father of four Peter Himmelman seems to have this knack on his new CD, My Trampoline.
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Steal this CD
Any band that uses solar power to make their CD then encourages people to copy it for their friends makes me feel all warm and fuzzy before I've even heard a note.
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Arrghhhh, 'tis Talk Like a Pirate Day, mateys
We may not speak proper pirate but that doesn't stop us from trying on Talk Like a Pirate Day. (Yes, that's an actual thing. Swear.) So we've got a round up of some of our favorite pirate booty from past months
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Tagging The Not-Its!
I remember when the bands coming out of Seattle's indie music scene set the bar for what was cool, so it shouldn't surprise me that the most rockin' new kids' band, The Not-Its!, call that region home.
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Ja, Little Mon
On a recent drive to the beach, my kids and I glumly watched the black clouds rolling in as we all collectively whined, "Rain again?" Fortunately the CD I chose to turn on at that moment was Asheba's totally fun calypso and world beat release, In The Kid Zone.
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CMP editor Kristen used Powerpoint to create a really great little slideshow to explain Daddy's current Afghanistan tour of duty to the kids.
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