by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
My love affair with Rick started when I was just young girl and I heard Jessie’s Girl come blasting on the radio. Twenty something years later, it’s still my favorite song of all time. (And there is a video of me singing it at a karaoke bar somewhere in...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Pirates may be lawless, mean and smelly, but I’m having a blast listening to the buccaneering rock of Portland, Oregon’s Captain Bogg & Salty on their new CD, Emphatical Piratical. And fortunately, instead of telling my kids to rob and pillage,...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
I’d like to thank Donny, Marc and Ben of Atlanta’s The Baby Grands for helping to bring my heart rate down after another “we’re late!”, mad-dash to the car with the kids. Hearing their cool, Jack Johnson-esque musical style paired with...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Hearing an eight-year-old belt out a song about romantic love, or a six-year-old mournfully sing about the end of high school is a bit unsettling. Fortunately, I have found Cathy Heller, whose debut CD, Say Hello to the Sun, gives my kids the type of melodic,...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
After listening to the 24 bite-sized songs on Parry Gripp’s Do You Like Waffles?, I’m pretty certain he could come up with a rockin’ song about any food product out there. In fact, this album was born after Parry tried his hand at commercial writing...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Mommy, why you shakin’ your booty?, my son asked a few minutes after we popped in Easy, the 2008 release from Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. Never mind where a four-year-old learns such language, Easy is one cool hip-hop CD with music that isn’t watered down for...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
If you had asked me about Nick Jr’s Yo Gabba Gabba! a few months ago–unlike editor Liz who’s their biggest fan on the planet–I would’ve told you, I don’t get it. However I am now writing enthusiastically about the Yo Gabba Gabba!...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
After reading the headline to this review, you may be wondering, When did Cool Mom Picks become Cool Grandmom Picks? I hear you. When I first heard that Neil Sedaka had put out a new CD of reworked hits for kids, I thought, There is no way this is going to be my kind...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Did I ever tell you that my oldest daughter is a music video star? Yep, it’s true. Check out the Bedhead video from the Jimmies, and at about 1:40 you’ll see her rocking out with a spiky red mohawk and huge smile. You’ll find this and more at...
