My Time at the Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls That Started it All in 2004
Rockmommy’s editor in chief reflects on the summer of 2004, when she was a counselor at the Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, Oregon.
Camp Crush’s New Video for ‘Fangirl’ is the Virtual Party I Need Right Now
It’s been quite a week, to say the least. I’m in desperate need of sleep, like many of my friends who have been anxiously awaiting the results of the 2020 elections in a year that’s already reaching new levels in universal anxiety. So, let’s pause for a moment, and take a deep breath. Heck, let’s…
Camp Crush’s Jennifer Deale Gets Real About Politics and Relationships with ‘Run’ EP
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Camp Crush, the Portland, Ore.-based wife-husband duo of Jennifer Deale (synths, keys, vocals) and Chris Spicer (drums, vocals), is known for embedding important social messages into sonically luscious New Wave pop. Onstage and on screen, Camp Crush aims to stimulate conversation, as evidenced by band’s deeply moving May 2018 EP She’s…
Camp Crush’s Jennifer Deale on Parenthood, Music, Feminism and Carving Out a New Sound
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Camp Crush, the musical incarnation of husband-wife duo Jennifer Deale and Chris Spicer, pushes out powerful, soaring, synth-driven pop-rock songs with such conviction that you’d think they’d been doing this forever. But as it turns out, when they burst onto Portland, Ore., music scene ten years ago, they were a pared-down…
