Wednesday, April 15, 2015

"Hold On to Your Dreams" - World Premiere on Zooglobble

World-premiere time! Thanks to Zooglobble, I'm happy and excited to share with y'all the new Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips single for April, "Hold On to Your Dreams." (Happy Tax Day!) Check out the song and the story behind it here:
"The song is a hoedown duet with Miss Tembra Campbell that [Mista Cookie Jar's] been working on for years at backyard bonfires and late night jam sessions, so unsurprisingly its message of hard work and dedication feels lived-in, earning the use of the pots, pans, and pickle jars as accompaniment.”
--Zooglobble


Circle 'round the campfire and bring on the instruments -- it's time for a good ol' fashioned, family hoedown! Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips have created a boisterous new jam with wisdom for the whole fam -- a simple slogan: "Hold On to Your Dreams." Because any great dream starts with a team, the Chocolate Chip crew have enlisted once again, the original Chocolate Chip, fam-bam crooner and resident harmonizer, Miss Tembra Campbell (previously featured on the Ultramagnetic Universal Love Revolution [LP] track, "Shaggy Bee"). Co-written and evolved throughout the years over backyard bonfires and late night jam sessions up and down the California coast, the song has become the Chips’s anthem for hard work and dedication. 

"Hold on to Your Dreams" is the 7th in a row single-a-month release in anticipation for Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips 3rd album (date yet to be determined).

lyrics

Lyrics:
Now everybody circle round.
Sing loud. Clap along. 
Whateva’ way u gets down.
It's tha fam bam. 
Family. The dream crew.
Our chemistry gets us 
brewing up a dream stew. 
Dream incubatin' 
takes a little patience. 
A whole lotta love 
and a big imagination.
When you  
catch a star.
Make a wish. 
Go strong. 
Dream big. 
Let it fly.
And hold on. 

You got to hold on to your dreams.
It’s not as hard as it may seem.
It’s up to you. You got the power.
Life will open like a flower.
Gotta hold on to your dreams.

You got to hold on to your dreams.
It’s not as hard as it may seem.
It’s up to you. You got the power.
Life will open like a flower.
Gotta hold on to your dreams.

In life the bountiful things and the houses with swings,
they don’t land in the laps of the smartest.
The bright shiny jewels and the big swimming pools
are rewarded to those who work hardest.
Find the magic in life. Don’t give into the strife.
And remember to follow your dreams.
‘Cuz the one’s that come true
take hard work through and through
and some sweat, if you know what I mean.

You got to hold on to your dreams.
It’s not as hard as it may seem.
It’s up to you. You got the power.
Life will open like a flower.
Gotta hold on to your dreams.

You got to hold on baby.
Gotta hold on baby.
Gotta hold on baby.
Gotta hold on baby.
Gotta hold on baby.
Gotta hold on baby.
Gotta hold on baby.
Gotta hold on baby.
Gotta hold on to your dreams!
Credits:

creditsReleased 15 April 2015 

Instruments: Guitar, Bass, Harmonica, Pots, Pans, Pickle Jars, Tambourine, and the Stars & Moon Resolian
Vocals: Miss Tembra Campbell & Mista Cookie Jar
Back Up Vocals & Claps: C-Bomb, Peachy Keen, & the Chocolate Chips
Writers: Mista Cookie Jar & Tembra Campbell
Producer: Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

"Kidz Rock" Twinkle Time Music Video!!

So happy to share this brand-spanking new music video by LA kid-pop sensation, Twinkle Time....featuring myself, Mista Cookie Jar!  A collaboration we've kept under wraps for a minute now and its finally time to DROP IT. A lot of hard work put into this sucker! Proud to reveal it and honored to be part of the team. Enjoy =)
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"Cookie and Twinkle, like cookies and sprinkles."
LA-based bilingual-pop-artists & kid rock sensations, Twinkle Time and Mista Cookie Jar, unite with "Kidz Rock" -- a kid anthem for April, the month of Dia Del NiƱo (April 30). Set to a colorful blend of EDM, hip hop and pop, Twinkle Time, your superstar hostess, brings it with her sparkly swag and arena-sized heart, creating an anthem for kids to dream big and go for it! Rhyming, crooning, hyping it up alongside her, with his erudite witticism and spitfire wordplay, the wild and wonderful, Mista Cookie Jar. Twinkle and Cookie co-wrote the track with producers, Matthew Gerrard, Peter Amato & James Dallas. Matthew Gerrard is one of the most in-demand, pop-writer/producers for the past decade including hits "Breakaway" Kelly Clarkson, Big Time Rush, High School Musical and Hannah Montana to name a few. Peter Amato has written/arranged music for Miley Cyrus, LeAnn Rimes, Ricky Matin, and more and is the current music programmer for NBC's The Voice. James Dallas, married to Alitzah Twinkle, has had had his songs placed on the George Lopez Show, Bring it On, The Bratz, and co-writes/produces with Twinkle the “Bilingual Pop Music Show for KiDS, Twinkle Time!” With rockstar performances, superhero personality, and top-of-the-charts production, "Kidz Rock" exemplifies the finest of pop entertainment while placing the inner-kid in the limelight.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Lollapalooza 2015 - CHICAGO! - July 31 & August 1


Incredible news, Chocolate Chips. We will be performing at Lollapalooza 2015 Chicago Kidzapalooza stage alongside our friends, the Pop Ups, the Jimmies, Danny Weinkauf, and the Q Brothers. We are stoked and honored to say the least. I guess you could say we're opening for Paul McCartney and Metallica. WHaauuuT?! Peep the poster...look who's at the bottom row:

We've been getting some pretty cool props by folks since the news dropped. A lot of peeps are hollering at as on Twitter and FB. Our video Happy Place which was featured on their website got 600 plus views the day the news dropped last week! Pretty pretty good! Also, we got a funny little shout of from Dave and Darren, a morning radio show in DeWitt, Iowa.

Wanna buy tickets?

We will be performing July 31 and August 1. Times yet to be determined. 3 day and 1 day passes are sold out on the Lollapalooza website but you can purchase tickets at Ticket City, here. And if you wanna go ALL out, you can get VIP Platinum passes still on the Lolla website, here.

Got children? According to the Lolla website, "Children 10 years-old and younger will be admitted free of charge with a pass-holding adult." Score!