by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Melissa Levis, the Moey of Moey’s Music Party, communicates to toddlers the way I wish I could, especially when they are getting on my nerves. Rather than tensely demand, “Share your toys!” this off-Broadway songwriter sings a bouncy song about...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
There are days when I just want to listen to something a bit more aggressive than the usual children’s music fare. But, I learned a valuable lesson the day I jumped out of the minivan while the kids sat inside listening to Fatboy Slim’s F-bomb-laden...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
The first DVD release from CMP fave Uncle Rock, Number 1 DVD: Live from Kidtopia is a great example that kids don’t need big, commercial, overproduced videos to fall in love a band, provided that band has half an ounce of talent. And in this case, talent is...
by Cool Mom Team | Editors Best of the Year
This was a banner year for media, including great books for parents from some of our favorite bloggers, wonderful kids’ books, and more cool music for kids than a new parent would have ever known was out there, had the remote control gotten jammed on that Disney...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
If you have holiday guests (of the fun variety) to entertain over the next couple weeks, run — don’t walk — and grab yourself a copy of SingStar ABBA for PS2 or PS3. As a huge, cheesy, unabashed ABBA fan, when I had the chance to review this I was...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
Instead of coughing up fur balls and sleeping, Pete the Cat goes out for a leisurely stroll in his spanking new white shoes. I can’t even imagine trying to get shoes onto my cat, never mind how miffed she’d be if she stepped into some of the things Pete...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
I’ve never thought of the Blues as particularly cheerful until I heard Brooklyn’s Randy Kaplan sing Good Morning Blues, the first song on Loquat Rooftop. Amidst the amazingly nimble-fingered guitar work, I heard him ask, Good morning blues….blues How...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
My son has a crush on an older woman, and her name is Laurie Berkner. Judging by the number of times he’s listened to her new kids CD, Rocketship Run, he has fallen hard. Fortunately for the rest of us, we can understand his adoration: her voice on...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media
I’m all for exposing my kids to world music, but have to take into account that they do enjoy some of the regular old kids music (pain me though it does). Thanks to Baby Loves Salsa, the new release from our friends at Baby Loves Music, now kids can enjoy the...
by Julie | Entertainment + Media
I have allowed my children to invade nearly all areas of my life. There are chicken nuggets in my freezer, tricycles in my driveway, and hordes of toys in every room of the house. But I admit I’ve drawn the line at listening to children’s music, even...
