Photos: Summer Set Music Festival 2013 – Music Day 3 (Somerset, WI)
Chachuba (Chicago, IL), Chris V & Mighty Thor (Milwaukee, WI), Mama DigDown’s Brass Band (Madison, WI), The 4ontheFloor (Minneapolis, MN), Zoogma (Oxford, MS //…
Dessa
Review: Dessa – Parts of Speech (2013)
Dessa is consistent, but not. This Minneapolis MC, poet, frequent college speaker, “underrated writer, overrated rapper, undecided major” has been all over the place…
Concert Review + Photos: Doomtree Blowout 8 at First Avenue (Minneapolis, MN)
Doomtree (Minneapolis, MN) December 16th, 2012 First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN Full Gallery: Doomtree Blowout 8 at First Avenue Stef Needs A New Kidney: Donate…
Concert Review: Dessa Lipstick Launch Party at Icehouse (Minneapolis, MN)
Saturday night The Elixery, a Minneapolis, MN based cosmetic house launched their much-anticipated new color, Dessa. With a local star line up that included Barb…
Interview: Matthew Santos (Chicago)
From time to time we all experience those moments of synchronicity. My most recent experience with this was meeting Matthew Santos backstage at a…
Concert Review + Photography: Doomtree Blowout VII at First Avenue (Minneapolis, MN)
Doomtree Blowout VII December 9th, 2011 First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota Photos by Ryan Siverson. We called in the team on this one. You can…
Review: Doomtree – No Kings (2011)
No Kings is not hot on the heels of F H : X V or 2008’s Doomtree. It’s in searing pursuit, hugging hairpin curves…
Concert Review + Photography: Dessa and Hindi Zahra at Lincoln Hall (Chicago)
Dessa (Minneapolis, MN) and Hindi Zahra (France/Morocco) October 11th, 2011 Lincoln Hall in Chicago, Illinois Gallery: Dessa and Hindi Zahra at Lincoln Hall Sometime…
Review: Dessa – Castor, the Twin (2011)
Even though I am as big a fan as any of the songwriter (she authors fiction), writer (but is not just an author)…that astonishingly creative mind, revisiting songs is something hard to convince. An all-time favorite of the past twelve years, Alkaline Trio, did it with Damnesia, and I didn’t bother listening. What’s the change? For one, Dessa added Sleeping with Nikki, a short story in a miniature, convenient bundle of pages that was pre-order only.