29 Jun 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. ...
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25 Feb 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...
23 Jul 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...
24 May 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...