Swedish Rock Band THUNDERMOTHER’s Lead Guitarist Talks Playing — and Touring — While Pregnant
Few can slay a guitar solo in the third trimester like Swedish all-female rock band THUNDERMOTHER’s lead guitarist Filippa Nässil.
Make Music Day 2021, and Ushering in a Rockin’ Summer
I’ve been living the change I want to see for rockmommies — playing out, booking gigs, and creating new music.
Balancing Band Life and Raising Boys: How Much is Too Much of a Good Thing?
by Marisa Torrieri Bloom Five years ago, having a few moments to myself to strum my guitar — without getting interrupted by a toddler — was a bit of a miracle. Fast forward to 2020 and my two young sons are no longer toddlers. They’re 6- and 7-year-olds with their own interests who need me…
Should Rocker Moms Change the Way They Dress After Having Kids? I Say No.
On the cover of my album “Sex & Guitars,” which I released more than ten years ago, I’m wearing a vinyl miniskirt, leaning back in a bed, guitar in arms, eyes seductively gazing into the camera. I still love seeing this photo of me in my pre-kids, pre-marriage days — although (sadly) I don’t wear…
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…
