Mod Housewife Rock

When Amy Rigby was 37, the Pittsburgh-native decided it was time for life to change. So, she went from house wife to house rocker.

I’ll just let her explain it, “I’ve been a mod housewife since 1993, when I decided I was not going to get down on my hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor unless I could get up onstage and sing about it. I didn’t want to fight about sex and laundry with my husband unless I could turn it into a song. Somehow going to work at a crappy job made more sense if I could look at it as … research. Oh, I’d played music for years, but that was with friends, for fun. This is different. this is about sanity,” Ribgy explains in her online bio. Her music is slammin’ and relatable on tracks like “Dancing With Joey Ramone” and “Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again?”

Amy Rigby: Saturday, April 16, 7 p.m. $15. The Parlor Room, 32 Masonic St., Northampton.

— Kristin Palpini