I'm Dreaming of a Robot For Xmas!

Happy holidays to all you Chocolate Chips out there!

Here's our newest music video, "Robot For Xmas." An ode to robots, the old days of 8 bit, and the jolly season:

♥,

Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips
MistaCookieJar.com

Free song download and lyrics:

http://mistacookiejar.bandcamp.com/track/robot-for-xmas

Here are some SWEET!! write ups on the video from Wired.com, Out With The Kids, Zooglobble, Singing in the Bathtub, Rumphy, Kid Independent, and Channel APA.

Out With the Kids says, "There’s a lot of new kid’s holiday music to cover, and I will at some point soon, but nothing may be as A-M-A-Z-I-N-G as Mista Cookie Jar’s newly dropped “Robot for Xmas”. Watch it, watch it again, and then maybe for a 3rd time, then download it for freeeeee.....!"

Zooglobbble says "Watch this video now, before it gets picked up by the geeky blogs and gets, like, 50,000 page views a day....I doubt you're gonna find another Christmas kids music video this year as hyper -- and, frankly, as awesome -- as this new video from Mista Cookie Jar. "

Singing in the Bathtub says, "Little, clever touches make this one a soon-to-be-Christmas classic."

Wired.com says, "Certainly another great example of a family project for this end of year, which proves once more how awesome it is to have a geek dad!"

Let's get this song up on Sirius Radio's Kids Place Live! Request Mista Cookie Jar's "Robot For Xmas" by hitting up their email: kidsplacelive at siriusxm.com or FB here:

Look Ma, Made it on the News!

This past Monday, I conducted a workshop and performed at Wheeling Country Day School in West Virginia. It was the best day ever! And the cherry on top -- we made it on the local news, WTRF 7!!

Check it out here!

Pics coming soon = )

Request "Love Bubble" On Sirius Radio's Kids Place Live!

Hey fans, friends, and fam!

Good news, "the Love Bubble" made it to # 2 a couple weeks ago on Sirius radio! There's still a good chance to get LOVE BUBBLE up to number 1 !

Hollar at Sirius Radio's Kids Place Live and request "Mista Cookie Jar's "Love Bubble"! You can also request "Love Bubble Unplugged" if you wanna hear something new ; )

Request by email kidsplacelive@siriusxm.com

OR request on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KidsPlaceLive

If you want to see the Top 13 list: http://kplfans.blogspot.com/

If you haven't heard "Love Bubble" here it is:

http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/3028991

And to hear the new UNPLUGGED version, click here:

http://mistacookiejar.bandcamp.com/track/love-bubble-unplugged-2

Thanks to all of you guys who requested! The Chocolate Chips and I truly appreciate it!!

Mista Cookie Jar

Fall Shows!

Performed once again at the Castle Heights Fall Festival Oct 23rd, 2011. So much fun! Also rocked the Abbot Kinney Festival Sept. 25th! Pics for both coming soon.

A couple more hot shows coming this fall. October 30th, 2011 from 3pm to 4pm, we will be performing at the Zimmer Children's Museum! Click here for their website:

Check out their write up for us:

"Nothing’s yummier than the musical sounds of Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips! They’ll be mixing up a batter bowl of Urban Island Folky Rock and Roll for the Inner Child. Fusing audio content and visual style, tradition and innovation, Mista Cookie Jar unites a rockstar excitement with the warmth of family music. You definitely don’t want to miss this performance!"

We have another show for a reading from the book, "Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood." This will take place at Los Feliz's famous, Skylight Books Saturday, November 12 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm.

“Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood” collects the best pieces from Tomas Moniz’s award-winning “Rad Dad” zine and from Jeremy Adam Smith’s blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications explore parenting as political territory.Join the “Rad Dad” authors in pushing the conversation around fathering beyond a safe, apolitical place; come create a diverse, multi-faceted space to grapple with the complexity of fathering.Reading along with Moniz and Smith are Jason Sperber, young adult novelist Lisa Yee and special musical guest: Mista Cookie Jar!

Mista Cookie Jar Songs on Sing & Send App for iPhones/iPads

Awesome news! Mista Cookie Jar & the Chocolate Chips are FEATURED on a new iPhone/iPad App called "Sing & Send StoryChimes!" Our songs, Love Bubble, Joey the Dogg, Room 28, and Inner Child Rock can be downloaded in 99 cent paired packages. Then you can read the lyrics as you listen to the songs, turn off the vocals and sing along karaoke style, scratch the track like a BOSS dj, and even record it and send it to your Grumpa!

Click here to check it out! The application's free!!

ABOUT SING & SEND STORYCHIMES!

Sing & Send is the best way for the kids (and parents alike) to sing along with their favorite songs, record them and then send them. All at the touch of a button.

The easy-to-use design will have kids singing in no time at all. New 99 cent song packs will be added frequently, so there will always be something new to discover!

Sing and Send also features a DJ feature so you can have some fun scratching the record or play with the speed of the recording!

Share via Facebook, YouTube or e-mail!

Includes these awesome features:

• Two songs included with this download!
• Expandable music library for only 99 cents per pack of 3 songs.
• Record with or without background vocals!
• Interactive DJ fun!
• SongBank to store you favorite recordings.
• Share your songs via Facebook, YouTube and e-mail!
• Song art shared with each sent and shared recording!

TN Project Artist Spotlight #2...Me and the Chocolate Chips

Check out this super sweet video TNP and the homie, Jonathan Reinert, created for us to promote the big show we'll be rocking August 6th!

Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips from Jonathan Reinert on Vimeo.

Love Bubble Summer Updates 2011!

Recognition! That's what makes us artists and family bands keep doing our thing. The "Room 28" music video had some awesome web recognition in June:

Wii Were Kids: Global Chilling, Zooglobble.com, and BestVideosForKids.com.

Wii Were Kids says:

Now you can continue to listen to gangstas shooting and hustling around, while we go for kids with a big smile of their face. Music is not just about nodding heads, it's also one of the strongest and fastest way to get into people's mind, especially if they're youngsters. Positive music and good education goes together in order to create a better future. That's how we all should roll.

On April 17, 2011, our song, "The Love Bubble" was featured on the podcast, Kindiecast with Tor Hyams!

"Supertalents" (off our album, the Love Bubble) featuring Gregory Brown, will be featured in the U.S. Department of State's "Sing Out Loud: Modern American Rhythms CD." The CD will be released throughout the world to help teach English through song. More on this later when the CD has its official release (date to be determined, but hopefully by the end of the summer.)

Also stay tuned for more updates on the 3d Supertalents music video, still currently in post-production phase.

June 11 & 12, Ava and I with honorary Chocolate Chip Hula Hooper, Jessi-Fresh, rocked out the Harmony Fest's Kids Zone in Santa Rosa. For more pics click here. You can say we officially opened up for the Flaming Lips and Primus.

Here's a pic I took of the Flaming Lips on my celly. Incredible, eh?

Also, Grandma Cookie and I got to rock out as Evil Sandwiches with magical super friends the Ukulady, Gabby La La, Don Black, and Emily Butterfly. How cool is that?

Met some great peeps in the Kindie scene over the past few months. At Kindiefest in NYC this May, I met Dan Zanes and 23 Skidoo. Met a ton of other ubertalents---too many to name!

Mid June, here in LA, there was a "So Cal Kindie Cook Out" at David Tobocman's pad for a little BBQ campfire jam session organized by NYC kindie writer, Jeff Bogle. Got to jam out with David, the Pop Ups, Birdie Mendoza, and Rhythm Child! Around the fire, we roasted smores and played some Bob--Dylan and Marley, Beatles, Woody Guthrie, Violent Femmes, and even the Pixies. Fun times indeed!

Coming up, we have a couple shows with the TNP crowd over in Little Tokyo! July 19th, we're rocking TNP and will be debuting our new song, "Happy Place." Here's the info. Also, August 6th, TNP presents the J-Town Summer Sessions. We will be recording this performance and it will feature the Ukulady's Ukulad on banjo and mandolin!

Tuesday Night Project presents:
in partnership with Glenn Suravech & Mosaic Sound Recordings and Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple

J-Town Summer Sessions: A Live Concert Recording and Celebration of Art + Community

August 6th, 2011
1pm-7pm
Doors open at 12:45pm

Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple
505 E 3rd St (at 3rd & Central)
Los Angeles, CA

Tickets on sale now: http://www.brownpaperticke​ts.com/event/176949
$20 General Admission Presale ($25 at the door)
$15 Student/Senior Presale ($20 at the door)

Click here for more info.