May the 4th be with you! 🪐 I made blue milk tonight in honor of the occasion. And if you're in the mood for something silly and Star Wars-y, check out this video our family made with a friend eight years ago: https://youtu.be/hshsvgXR_4E

#MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #BlueMilk #FamilyFun #Throwback #DIYStarWars #MayTheForceBeWithYou #GalacticGiggles #StarWarsFans

The world’s a hot mess right now.

Standing up for what’s right can cause unfortunate side effects like weakness, fatigue, your heart beating like a Neil Peart drum solo, and… digestive disturbances.

But you know what helps with all of that?

Potassium.

Happy National Banana Day, friends.

Take care of yourselves out there.

 We're excited to be semi-finalists! #ISC2024SEMIFINALIST

🎉 Exciting news!

Our song "How to Howl" (featuring our very own dogs Trixie, Thurber, Arty, and Happy) from our self-titled album has been named a finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition in the Children's Music Category! 🐾🎶

If you want to check it out, it’s streamable everywhere—including here: https://open.spotify.com/track/2zPKfCCXd6wmirBkIvm3mf

The winners will be announced on 11/22/2024 at https://www.songwriting.net/winners . While we’d love to win, it truly feels incredible to be a finalist alongside such talented artists. (And seriously, the Imagination Movers? Total icons—they were the first big concert my kids/bandmates went to back in the day!) 🥹💛

Wishing good luck to all the amazing finalists:

CHILDREN'S MUSIC FINALISTS

🎵 "Hey Dr King!" by Billy Byron

🎵 "How to Howl" by Rockaroni & Cheese

🎵 "How (Can I Make Someone's Day?)" by Dana Cohenour

🎵 "Dreampilot" by Kat Sena

🎵 "Dreamland" by Flor Bromley & Lucy Kalantari

🎵 "Road Trip" by Imagination Movers

🎵 "Be a Lion" by Donna Dyson, Wil Hughes & Spotty Kites

🎵 "Who Would That Leave to Be Me?" by Jordan Wax

🎵 "Big" by Kim Noller

🎵 "Animal Band" by Robert McCarthy, Mr. Rob & Friends

🎵 "Afraid But Brave" by Jesse Friedberg & Jesse Jukebox

Thank you for your support—keep howling! 🐺💫

Introducing... Banana Man!

He's long, he's yellow, and he's finally here! We're so very excited to share the first (and so far, only) music video we've ever released—a family collaboration that we are all so incredibly proud of:

#PotassiumRichMusic

 Our family band is playing a free family friendly show today (Saturday 3/23) at the SFC Farmers' Market in Sunset Valley from 9:30a-10:45a and 11:15a to 12:30pm. Come, hang out, and get some amazing food!

Edit2: Okay!!! We're on for tomorrow, January 20th. See details below.

Edit: The show we will be on has been postponed to Saturday the 20th because the lovely host is under the weather. So tune in a week from tomorrow when they expect they'll be feeling much better!

Rockaroni and Cheese will be played on the Radio Active Kids show this Saturday January, 13. The show is from 8-10am ET and can be found on the FM dial at 103.3 fm in Asheville NC! It's also syndicated in a few other markets, though I'm not sure which and when... So you can just stream it live here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids

Or just listen to the podcast of the episode after the broadcast, right here: https://anchor.fm/radio-active-kids

Rockaroni & Cheese rocks the radio!

Rockaroni and Cheese will be getting some radio play this weekend on our favorite radio show: Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child ! The song they will be playing is We Are Family. This song features all 5 of us (Adam, Krisdee, Milo, Eliot, and Emmet) on one track. Emmet's performance is extra special because, though he sings in some of the choruses as the 11 year old he is today, most of his audio was recorded when he was only a year old. (Thanks to Michael Schatz for recording it and keeping it safe for us all these years.) It also features the amazing Vi "The Fiddler" Wickam. (Fans may remember him playing the villain in our movie found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygjz5w4u96M )

In chronological order (though all times are local so it may look out of order) it's my understanding we will be heard on

KIYU Western Koyukon Region, Alaska https://kiyu.com/ on Sat. @ 10 am local

Crater Community Radio, Flagstaff, AZ https://craterradio.com/ on Sat. at 8 am local

103.3 VFR, Northampton, MA https://valleyfreeradio.org/ on Sat. at 7 am local

93.9 The River, Northampton, MA/ 101.5 The River, Brattleboro, VT https://wrsi.com/ on Sat. at 8 am local

106.1 The Corner, Charlottesville, VA https://1061thecorner.com/ on Sun. at 7 am local

WFNU Frogtown Community Radio, St. Paul, MN https://wfnu.org/ on Sun. at 8 am local

98.9 KUTX The Austin Music Experience https://kutx.org/ on Sun. at 6 pm local

Of course you can always stream episodes of this amazing show here: https://sparetherock.com/wordpress/category/playlist/ or download it from wherever you listen to podcasts. We highly recommend you do. Still, there's something really special about hearing a song you love on the actual radio. Especially if it's a love song sung by your entire family.

Our family band is playing a free family friendly show tomorrow (Saturday 11/18) at the SFC Farmers' Market in Sunset Valley from 9:30a-10:45a and 11:15a to 12:30pm. Come, hang out, and get all the amazing produce you need for your upcoming feast!

Our first music album is going live November 10th!!!

Rockaroni and Cheese started in the spring of 2008 when Milo and DADam played their first show. Milo, almost 2, wailed on the drums while dad tried to keep up playing keys and singing... Since that time Milo's 2 brothers (Eliot and Emmet) have joined the band, they posted some pretty huge fan films on YouTube (Little Batman and Robin etc.), they played a ton of shows, and now... more than 15 years since all this fun started...they're releasing their first album! It will be live at all the usual places on November 10th, but if you pre-order the album on iTunes you can get their hit track Banana Man now: https://music.apple.com/us/album/rockaroni-cheese/1712592616

Hey Austin friends. What are you doing this Friday, November 10th? The final show of the fall season of Rock the Park is happening and our family band is opening for Thebrosfresh at 6:30pm! Join KUTX 98.9, Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child, and Dell Children's Medical Center, at Mueller Lake Park for a free, family-friendly live Austin Music Experience! Details at www.kutx.org

#kutxrockthepark

Hello friends! If you have a rhyme or two for "orange" (the sillier the better) and want to maybe hear yourself on our new Rockaroni and Cheese album, leave a message at the beep on our voicemail found at ‪(443) 4 Cheese. (That's 443.424.3373.) Example of what you might say: "Hi Rockarioni! This is NAME. How about WORD?" Not that you have to stick with that template. Have fun and say whatever. Just keep it short, original, and (obviously) family friendly. Also, maybe don't say "door hinge" as we actually use that in the song. ;)

 Our family band is playing a free family friendly show on the outdoor stage at Cherrywood Coffeehouse tomorrow from 10am-11am. Come and hang out. (Their brunch is amazing btw) We're bringing candy and will be wearing costumes... it's gonna be a trick and/or treat wonder of a time!!

Photo by Sean Claes/INsite Austin

Our family band is playing a free outdoor family show tomorrow (Sunday 7/31) from 10:00am-11:00am at the Cherrywood Coffeehouse! We'd love to see friends come for both us AND their amazing brunch!!!

 Rockaroni and Cheese will be playing from 10:00am to 11:00am for the Brunch Concert at Cherrywood Coffeehouse on Sunday May 15th. It's an outdoor free show, though we do recommend buying their breakfast as it's amazing. Seriously, with allergies and preferences our entire family is hard to feed and we all eat here with great joy! :) If you're curious here's their amazing brunch menu: http://cherrywoodcoffeehouse.com/menu/#brunch

Our band started when Milo (now 16) was almost 3 years old and started playing shows with his dad. The duo has grown to a quartet since Eliot and Emmet have joined the band. :) If you're curious about what we sound like here's a video of us playing a show during 2016's SXSW:

In the many years since that video was shot our band has only gotten better. :)

Cherrywood Coffeehouse is located at: 1400 E 38th-1/2 Street Austin, Texas 78722
And here is a link to their website with additional details about our show: https://cherrywoodcoffeehouse.com/events/kid-show-rockaroni-cheese/?fbclid=IwAR2OG6TP8nLYoVBDaJJnRdNbrImV3R_AVw38A5vkCuPlAEuH-ViHAuFlZnE

So we bought Eliot a LEGO set for his 8th birthday but I told him not to open it until we could film him building it. You know, make it an unboxing and post it to our then successful YouTube channel. Well I didn't win dad of the year for that year or the years since 'cause he turned 12 last April and we only finally made the video! lol Oh well... we haven't seen little Batman and Robin with Baby Alfred in some time. (I mean they're not really little anymore.) We also get to see David Young's Commissioner Gordon again as well as all of our pets, including the new kittens. So, parental failings aside, hopefully you'll think it was worth the wait! We're all pretty pleased with it. :) See it for yourself here:

We'll be playing from 10:30am to 11:30am at the Cherrywood Coffeehouse on Sunday September, 1st. It's a free show, though we do recommend buying their breakfast as it's amazing. Seriously, with allergies and preferences our entire family is hard to feed and we all eat here with great joy! :) If you're curious here's their amazing brunch menu: http://cherrywoodcoffeehouse.com/menu/#brunch 

Our band started when Milo (now 14) was almost 3 years old and started playing shows with his dad. The duo has grown to a quartet since Eliot and Emmet have joined the band. :) If you're curious about what we sound like here's a video of us playing a show during 2016's SXSW: 

In the 3 years since that video was shot our band has only gotten better. And Emmet now wears a lot more costumes and plays in every single song. :)

Cherrywood Coffeehouse is located at: 1400 E 38th-1/2 Street Austin, Texas 78722 

And here is a link to their website with additional details about our show: http://cherrywoodcoffeehouse.com/event/kid-show-rockaroni-and-cheese/?instance_id=22616

We hope you can make it!

Rockaroni and Cheese will be playing from 10:30am to 11:20am for the Brunch Concert at Cherrywood Coffeehouse on Sunday December 30th. It's a free show, though we do recommend buying their breakfast as it's amazing. Seriously, with allergies and preferences our entire family is hard to feed and we all eat here with great joy! :) If you're curious here's their amazing brunch menu: http://cherrywoodcoffeehouse.com/menu/#brunch

Our band started when Milo (now 13) was almost 3 years old and started playing shows with his dad. The duo has grown to a quartet since Eliot and Emmet have joined the band. :) If you're curious about what we sound like here's a video of us playing a show during 2016's SXSW:

In the 2 plus years since that video was shot our band has only gotten better. And Emmet now wears a lot more costumes and plays in almost every single song. :)

Cherrywood Coffeehouse is located at: 1400 E 38th-1/2 Street Austin, Texas 78722
And here is a link to their website with additional details about our show: http://cherrywoodcoffeehouse.com/…/kid-show-rockaroni-che…/…

We hope you can make it!

Happy New Year

DAdam (Dad + Adam)

Happy Father's Day to all the dads!!!! :)

DAdam (Dad + Adam) and his 3 boys will be playing a very special Father's Day show at 10:30am at the Cherrywood Coffeehouse. We hope your family can join ours in this celebration of dads!!

Will your family love us? We think so. Here we are rocking out a couple years back:

We're playing a free show this Wednesday night thanks to our friends, The Bara Team - Austin Real Estate Specialists!!