Jazz-pop songwriter Alison Faith Levy— known for keyboard skills and smooth vocal chops — is a staple in San Francisco’s performing arts circuit, regularly releasing songs that fans of all ages enjoy. Her latest release, You Are Magic, is perhaps the most meaningful yet, inspired by...
NYC-based Mötley Crüe tribute band Girls Girls Girls plays such a high-energy, awe-inspiring live show that phone calls and email requests to play private events are pretty much the norm (as are fangirls like me). So when the band received a random email in...
By Marisa Torrieri Bloom Connecticut-based blues rocker and guitar-wielding dad Rafe Klein first caught my attention when I watched a virtual livestream of his solo set in mid 2020. But it wasn’t just his cool guitar chops (he studied with the legendary Charlie Karp in his 30s) and singing...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Like everyone who snagged tickets to the Hella Mega Tour — a stadium concert starring post-grunge legacy bands including Green Day and Weezer, joined by Fall Out Boy and my current favorite, The Interrupters — I was stoked and charged up. I...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Grammy-nominated bassist Divinity Roxx made a name for herself playing R&B, funk and hip hop alongside musicians like Beyoncé. But’s it’s her solo bass slapping and lyrical riffs — poetic, hypnotic, and pointed — that take me to a different headspace (check...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom “Logan, can you practice your piano please?” It’s a question asked daily, sometimes three times, to my 7-year-old Beethoven-loving son. And the response is almost always the same: "NOT NOW!!" To which, I'll usually follow: "YES NOW!" To which, he'll caterwaul: "Not yet,...
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom When the pandemic hit the NYC metro area, lots of families hunkered down, and a few lucky ones ventured out — transplanting from two-bedroom apartments and brownstones to more bucolic parts of the country to experience a new kind of “remote learning.”...