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The Bazillions

July 28, 2010

Take a tablespoon of Recess Monkey, add a heaping cup of The Hipwaders, and stir in a bit of power pop to even out the heavy rock flavor, and you’ll have the recipe for Minnesota’s new kids’ band, The Bazillions. Yum!
The Bazillions is the family-friendly iteration of the grown-up band The Humbugs, but [...]

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Mr. Bandicoot

July 27, 2010
Mr. Bandicoot & Other Tales

Have you ever heard of a bandicoot? I hadn’t, at least not until I was introduced to Anne Lawson’s lovely Australian nursery rhyme book, Mr. Bandicoot & Other Tales.
Mr. Bandicoot is a group of rhymes thought up by Anne when her children were little. They’re all decidedly Australian with stories about kangaroos, gum trees, and, [...]

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Three Free Giveaway!

July 19, 2010
Bari Koral

As we drive around town I usually pick two or three CDs to play in the car. The three we’ve got on rotation right now seem to compliment each other so well that I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway for all three!

Bari Koral’s Rock & Roll Garden came out earlier [...]

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Ellis Paul in Cambridge

July 9, 2010

::Dragonfly Races::

Ellis Paul’s kids’ album, The Dragonfly Races, is a sweet and bright folksy collection of songs with lots of acoustic guitar and mellow melodies.
His songs are full of imagination and curiosities. From traveling to the bottom of the ocean to attending the dragonfly races, Ellis takes the listener on an adventure through [...]

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More Lullabies

July 7, 2010

I’m a huge advocate of using music as a way to signal everyday events. This works especially well for special needs kids who may need a little extra help moving through transitions.
We have certain songs that we listen to when it’s time to eat or time to go to school, special Wake Up Songs, and, [...]

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Muddy Music

July 6, 2010

Kids love playing outside, getting dirty, visiting the farm, and wrestling with their pets. I would think it would follow that they’d like songs about these things, too!
In the spirit of Rat Boy Jr’s Worms or dirt from their new album Smorgasbord, the following albums get kids thinking about how much fun it is to [...]

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A Laurie Berkner Best Of!

June 29, 2010

::The Best of the Laurie Berkner Band::

Who doesn’t love the Laurie Berkner Band? Who hasn’t spent an entire afternoon happily humming Victor Vito to themselves?
Hey Victor! Hey Freddie! Let’s eat some spaghetti!
Laurie Berkner has been releasing perfectly danceable family fun albums for over ten years now (wow!) and felt it was high time [...]

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