From the opening strains of the first song, a soaring anthem to the Slow Food Movement, Van Oodles’ new album “Flossophy 101” feels very different from his last album. Where the self-titled “Van Oodles” was character-driven, populated by cartoony-voiced monkeys and bees, “Flossophy 101” is about healthy, mindful living: eating your vegetables, avoiding [...]

Steve Denyes of the kid-folk duo, Hullabaloo has a songwriting game he plays with some of his “grown-up” musician friends in San Diego.    They are given a song title, then each writes a song based on that song title.    Steve recently approached kids music blogger, Zooglobble about hosting a songwriting club for kids [...]

The Clubbard Clarmac Family Singers received a nice little shout-out from Zooglobble.    Thanks Stefan.   Glad you enjoyed it!
 

Pop-Pop writes a blog about the things he’s seen and done.
How things have changed since olden days when he was very young.
“We didn’t have a Wii,” says he, “But we still had some fun.”
Yes, things were very different when my Pop-Pop was young.
 
Shoes had laces.   Clocks had hands and faces.
You didn’t take your [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my experience as Van Oodles’ body double in his forthcoming kids music video, “Flossophy 101″.   Well, I was called back to the set to be — and I’m not kidding, this video has a very strange plot — the backside of a cow.
Van Oodles' cow tail pulling [...]

Mo Phillips' Robot Rodeo
Mo Phillips is the most vocally exuberant of Portland’s kindie artists, which is one of the qualities that makes his 2010 album, Robot Rodeo feel so playful and infectious.    When Mo launches into falsetto on the 70′s funk/disco send-up, “You Can’t Be Friends with Food,” you want to shake your booty. [...]

Van Oodles is a new kids musician on the Portland scene, recently arrived from San Francisco.  Before that, he lived in Japan for ten years where he was a television personality and major-label hip hop artist.      Van Oodles is an anagram for his real name, Dave Olson, which apparently sounds like the Japanese [...]

I’ve always been a lyrics guy.  After I bought Magical Mystery Tour in fourth grade, the first thing I did was lie down on my bed with the liner notes and memorize the words to “I Am the Walrus”.  Nothing sours me on a band faster than when I think they’re phoning it in with their lyrics.
Mr. [...]

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