Music Makes Us

Dessa – A Badly Broken Code

Here is yet another great artist from Minneapolis. Dessa’s first release with Doomtree, False Hopes, introduced a unique sensibility to underground hip-hop: literary, bitter-sweet, and wry. She alternated between a clever, droll persona as an emcee and her earnest, unaffected delivery as a singer with a low, clear alto voice. Her a cappella arrangements delicate [...]

P.O.S. – Audition

P.O.S. (born Stefon Alexander) is an alternative hip-hop musician from Minnesota. He is a also a member of the alternative rap collective Doomtree. His rapping style is heavily influenced by punk bands such as Kid Dynamite and Fugazi. This guy is really amazing. I met him while he was filming one of his music videos [...]