We’re thrilled to announce that Rockabye Baby has been nominated as a finalist in the Catchiest tune category of the first annual Cribsie Awards.
Rockabye fans can enter to win a 5 CD gift box with your choice of Rockabye Baby CDs by heading over to the official Cribsie Awards site and casting your vote. Click on the Play category and you’ll find us under catchiest tune. Email us at giveaway[at]rockabyebabymusic[dot]com to let us know that you’ve voted and we’ll enter you in the giveaway.
“Las Palmas,” an award-winning Swedish short film, takes the idea that babies act a little…well, drunk one step further.
Protect your crawling (or skateboarding) baby’s knees with baby knee pads.
In a recent issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Paul Collins relates the fascinating story of child prodigy Barbara Follett, who started her first novel in 1923 at age eight.
These krumping kids are out of control. As Xeni Jardin writes, “What amazes me most isn’t the phenomenal krumpin’ the one kid does for such a long period of time in this video, but the sight of the two other 8-year-old boys next to him, standing still for more than 10 seconds.”
Was there a cuter Super Bowl commercial than Volkswagen’s Baby Darth Vader ad?
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee’s new children’s book Giant Steps to Change the World “features ordinary people who stood up for their beliefs and passions and became heroes in the process.”
Tina Fey has an essay on motherhood in the latest issue of the New Yorker (although you’ll have to pick up a print copy to read the whole thing): “Confessions of a Juggler”
Weezer and Rockabye Baby are an ideal match. They’re both smart alternatives with strong mainstream appeal, and the epitome of youthful cool.
Lullaby Renditions of Weezer, which hits stores today,includes their smash hit “Beverly Hills,” which hit the Top 10 of six contemporary pop music charts. Among the featured tunes by the band that brought geekdom to the heart of contemporary hipness is also their Top 20 single “Buddy Holly,” and the tune that started it all for the Los Angeles-based group in 1994, “Undone – The Sweater Song,” and nine more Weezer favorites.
Led by Rivers Cuomo, the quartet has etched its profile onto the modern rock scene with eight albums full of music that’s smart, witty, tuneful and catchy, just like Rockabye Baby’s lullabies. Now the kids who grew up with Weezer that are having children of their own can share the songs they treasure with the little ones they love.
Description: Dreamin’ of a holiday across the sea to escape baby’s cries? Why bother? Take control of the good life. When your little troublemaker gets cranky, let our gentle renditions of Weezer’s biggest hits transform your nursery into an island in the sun. The perfect situation isn’t only in dreams.
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards are this Sunday, February 13th and the show will include performances from Eminem, Katy Perry, Arcade Fire, Miranda Lambert and Cee Lo Green featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and the Muppets.
–Wait, what?–
Yes, really. The Academy Award winning actress and the R&B singer recorded a new version of Cee Lo’s Grammy-nominated hit single “F*** You’ last month. The duo also performed together on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago. Cee Lo says he was “impressed” with Paltrow’s voice and liked the rendition of ‘F*** You’ that the actress performed on Glee in November, so he invited her to do a version of it with him in the studio and on the Grammys.
Cee Lo and Paltrow will be joined by a roundup of Jim Henson’s Muppets. Cee Lo, a lifelong Muppet fan, approached Henson’s son Brian about putting together a backup band composed of the puppet characters. Henson recently told MTV that Green and Paltrow will “be backed by puppets who will make up a very weird and cool band.”
It’s sounds weird for sure, and you can bet that between the children-friendly puppets and the international audience, this performance of the four letter word-based song will also be squeaky clean.
1. Bing Crosby and David Bowie – 1977: “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy” Bowie appeared on Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas to perform with the 60s crooner. Bowie says he did the duet because his mother liked Crosby.
2. Fergie and Slash – 2011: “Sweet Child ‘O Mine”
Not even Slash could save the awkward debacle that was this year’s halftime show.
3. Alice Cooper and the Muppets – 1978: “School’s Out”
Eerie rocker Cooper brings a sense of the macabre to the Muppets set.
4. Elton John and Miss Piggy – 1977: “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” Television rarely gets more fun than this.
5. Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Nelly, Mary J. Blige and N’Sync – 2001:
Ten years later, this flashy, star-studded Super Bowl half time show remains far more memorable than the actual game.
Whoever said that must have had today’s generation of kids in mind.
Last Christmas, I visited my wife’s side of the family back in ‘Jersey, where we were warmly hosted by her brother and his wife in their cheerful Victorian home. But what really impressed me most wasn’t their big house. Or their fine decorations. Not even the awesome pizza joint just around the corner.
It was the toys.
You see we stayed in the converted attic “guest” room – which was really just a repository for my nephew’s endless array of amusements. Big toys. Small toys. Classic toys. New toys. Anything and everything you could imagine was there, from train sets to tomahawks, mega dolls to dinosaurs, fire trucks to Ferris wheels.
But here’s the kicker. Not only did that attic room represent the greatest collection of toys I’d ever seen one child possess, but when we glimpsed into his bedroom we saw an equally astounding collection of playthings!
‘How could one little boy have so many toys?’, I wondered. And how did he find the time to play with them all?
And then, Christmas morning, I had my answer. As I watched in bemused horror, my nephew opened one gift after another, stopping just a millisecond to contemplate the various merits, before coolly tearing open the next. It was like a pediatric version of Memento, where each day the character wakes up with no memory, only in this case it was the previous toy that seemed wholly forgotten.
All of which got me thinking – it wasn’t like that when I was young, was it? Yes, my family had about as much money as my nephew’s, but I seem to recall that each holiday. I typically got one main gift, something I dearly wanted, that quickly became the focal point of my playtime. These toys, my Lincoln Logs, Big Wheel, Hippity Hop, Lite Brite, and theincomparable Creepy Crawlers/Thingmaker set, became the touchstones of my youth. Even now, just thinking about them brings a goofy grin to my face.
And I wonder – what toys will my nephew remember when he grows up?
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What was your absolute favorite toy when you were a kid?
Description: Dreamin’ of a holiday across the sea to escape baby’s cries? Why bother? Take control of the good life. When your little troublemaker gets cranky, let our gentle renditions of Weezer’s biggest hits transform your nursery into an island in the sun. The perfect situation isn’t only in dreams.
Show your baby these babies: Zooborns, the newest and cutest exotic baby animals from zoos and aquariums around the world. Above is Owen, a koala recently born in South Carolina.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin has established its first Parent Academy, a free online resource for parents that offers educational materials previously only available to teachers.
Described as “the internet’s latest petrifying craze” by Time magazine, people are up in arms about Baby Yoga, after a video of the Russian practice went viral.
In The Wall Street Journal’s column The Juggle (“choices and tradeoffs people make as they juggle work and family”), Anna Wilde Mathews reflects on why she’s at work on her baby’s due date.
Two bands of “kids” have new albums out this week: The Get Up Kids’ There Are Rules and Cold War Kids’ Mine Is Yours.
Weezer and Rockabye Baby are an ideal match. They’re both smart alternatives with strong mainstream appeal, and the epitome of youthful cool.
