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 [...]

Erin Tobey – Erin Tobey

Here is the self titled album by another musician on plan-it-x. I swear it is hard to go wrong with anything on that label. Erin Tobey (b. 1981) is a DIY musician who currently lives in Bloomington, IN. She played guitar and sang in the pop/punk trio Abe Froman and has played bass in Mt. [...]

Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), who performs under the stage name Lady Gaga, is a singer, songwriter and musician from New York, U.S.A.. She began her career as a songwriter for some of pop music’s biggest stars, including Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block, as well as [...]