by Marisa Torrieri Bloom When I was little -- well, like 11 or 12 -- my dad Don Torrieri got me to watch "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" for the first time. I kind of knew what it was about (I mean, the title...
by Marisa Torrieri New Year’s Resolutions have become a bit of a cliche. Overly ambitious declarations destined to fail most of the time. Still, I start every year thinking, “OK, this is it! This is the year I play guitar for an hour a day every single...
Damn, it's been a WHILE since I updated this blog. Since I interviewed a guitar-wielding goddess. Since I offered tips for parents trying to find time to balance music with motherhood. You know why? Because things got totally off balance for me these last few...
Like so many other parents around the country, I've been so busy and excited, preparing my kids for the start of their school year. So when I saw this article about Houston-area schools having to stay shuttered through the first part of September my heart...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Before many of us had kids, life centered on long jam sessions with bands, and writing songs in uninterrupted spurts. But Singer-songwriter Jess Penner — a self-described cheerful and cheeky, creatively ADD artist from Los Angeles, who was raised on a banana farm...
I'm so excited to announce that I'll be playing one show in July...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom While Brooklyn is a place where dreams are made for so many creative types — rockmommies included! — Joanie Leeds didn’t ever intend to move to the borough when she began her music career more than a decade ago. [caption id="attachment_1857" align="alignright" width="300"]...