Music

Meet Bret McKenzie, the Man Behind the Muppet Music #MuppetsMostWantedEvent

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The Muppets just wouldn’t be the Muppets without music. Singing and dancing is what made them so popular in the first place, so it goes without saying, that their latest movie Muppets Most Wanted is chock full of all-new terriffic toe-tapping tunes! Muppet Music Master Bret McKenzie is back in the conductor’s chair this go round. His work on 2011’s The Muppets was so inspirational and celebrational that Bret actually won an Oscar for his …

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Music and Childhood Development

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This featured post was brought to you by Sam Peters Everyone loves music, but children are especially drawn to it. They love to dance and sing and do it often and loudly. If you have children, you already know this. They start with the lullabies we sing them and move on to the preschool songs we play them and that they hear on preschool TV shows like Jacks Big Music show and the Wiggles are …

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I Want to Sink My Teeth Into a Bottle of Iron Maiden’s New Trooper Ale

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I’ve been an Iron Maiden fan ever since high school. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son had just come out and the album cover totally caught my eye. I picked it up and was sucked right in. I quickly went out and bought up the previous few albums: Somewhere in Time, Piece of Mind and Number of the Beast for starters. I can’t tell you how many lawns I mowed in the ’80s, while listening …

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My Playlist or I Wanna Rock (blog hop)

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Apparently Trisha over at Momdot.com has caught the blog hop bug because she’s at it again. Or is it a blog carnival? I can’t really keep it straight. All I know is that the poor woman desparately needs a new iPhone since her current one is cracked beyond belief. The latest Blog Carnival is a blog post showing off the playlists on your computer or iPod or whatever MP3 player you use. I’ve got my …

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