What the what?

Today Dessa posted this hilar photo on her Facebook page of herself with Doomtree cohorts Mike Mictlan and Cecil Otter, without explanation - except to say "Did I mention that this happened?" We'll leave it at that.


Via Dessa on Facebook
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Current's 6th Birthday Party video recap

Check out this video recap, "A Love Letter to Minnesota Music," put together by Ron Johnson for last Friday's 6th birthday bash for 89.3 The Current, with footage of Jeremy Messersmith, Brother Ali, and Free Energy, and commentary from the likes of Dessa, Brother Ali, Mayor R.T. Rybak and The Current's Mark Wheat.

A Love Letter to Minnesota Music from Ron Johnson on Vimeo.

Via Rhymesayers on Facebook

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Dessa Talks to MTV

So, are we the only ones who didn't know MTV had a Book Club? Anyhow, MTV folks have asked our girl Dessa to tell them about her favorite author/book. Dessa's pick? "Consider the Lobster", a collection of nonfiction essays by the late David Foster Wallace. Dessa elaborates, amongst other things, on being inspired by Wallace, how her last album contains references to multiple books and why she likes Leonard Cohen. She also mentions that she seldom reads anything twice, which interestingly enough, was the thing local Twitterers thought was "intriguing." Dessa eventually responded with a tweet:

To which this guy replied:

Dessa didn't bother responding again. Guess why? She is reading, duh!

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WE LOVE DESSA.

This morning the local lovely Facebooked about the exclusive release of her new video for "Alibi" via City Pages Gimme Noise blog. The video is awesome and beautifully done, of course. Would you expect anything less from Ms. D?

Dessa will be playing the Varsity Theater Saturday Night with No Bird Sing for City Pages' "Best of the Twin Cities" Bash and tix are still available!



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Another Dessa video!

Hot on the heels of her just-released video for "Poor Atlas" off her soon-to-be-released album, Badly Broken Code (which we reported on yesterday) the Dessa camp has released yet another vid, this time for her track "Dixon's Girl," which the singer just posted on her Myspace page this morning.

Directed by Todd Cobery with Bo Hakala on DP duties and edited by JoLynn Garnes, the video is visually and conceptually stunning, of course. We LOVE!

Don't miss Dessa's CD release party on January 22nd at the Fine Line.

Dessa "Dixon's Girl" Music Video

Dessa | MySpace Music Videos

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