By Marisa Torrieri Bloom This month, Rockmommy talks to artists about their plans or the coming year. Up next: Genevieve Goings, whose upbeat engaging, soulful pop is the perfect energizer for a cold winter’s day. Here, she talks about getting creative, and balancing life as a working mom...
By Marisa Torrieri Bloom For many musicians, the loss of performance opportunities in the pandemic has been unbearable – professionally and emotionally. Mark Erelli is one of them. His twelfth record, Blindsided, came out just a few weeks after everything shut down. Tours were rescheduled, then...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom We don’t know what the future holds, but one thing’s clear: We’re not leaving the house much this winter. Personally, I’ll be digging into a lot of books. And it just so happens there are some killer rock n’ roll memoirs out...
This month, Rockmommy talks to artists about their plans or the coming year. Up first: family pop-rock musician Stacey Peasley, whose upcoming record Make it Happen! drops February 12. If the buoyant title track is any indication, Peasley’s latest album will be the dose of...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Resolutions, for me, are a thing of my pre-kid '20s. I'd make sweeping declarations, like "I'm going to lose 10 pounds" or "I'm going to play piano" as if they were easy feats, only to find that the post-holiday afterglow waned within...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom It's been quite a year -- and definitely not the one anyone expected 365 days ago. There's no way to sugarcoat how terrible it's been, between the pandemic, racial tensions and political strife. I count myself as lucky, but still experienced...
By Rew Starr The first time I met Alan Merrill was on my show ‘Rewbee’s World.’ My friend Jo Brat said she’d recently met him at a random party and I needed to get him on the show since he was the actual songwriter who wrote...