Dessa, who will be in Philadelphia on Sept. 19 for a show at the World Cafe Live, is no stranger to area music fans. One of the few white female rappers in the business, she is a member of Doomtree, a ...

Recorded music brought in $17 billion in revenue in 2023, up almost 8% from the year before, according to the end-of-year report from the Recording Industry Association of America. That growth might ...

As she turned and gestured to her "band" late Tuesday night, Dessa finally acknowledged she was doing something never before attempted in Minnesota — something she thinks could only be done here, at ...

Part of the Twin Cities hip-hop collective Doomtree, rapper, singer, poet and songwriter Dessa divides her time between singing and rapping, often landing on a spoken-word splitting of the difference.