The Miracle Dollsare an indie, punk and alternative band from Los Angeles, CA, fronted by Hidatsa/Kiowa twin sisters Dezy and Dani De La Rosa.
The Miracle Dolls have been playing music together since the age of 13. The sisters, now in their twenties, have already had two bands, one being a former punk band called Blister, before forming the Miracle Dolls around five years ago. RPM interviewed them on skype about their passion for music, their love for community and rock and roll heroes.
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Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary artist collective comprised of Kade L. Twist (Cherokee), Cristóbal Martínez (Mexica), Raven Chacon (Navajo), and Nathan Young (Pawnee, Kiowa). They have been working together as a collective since 2007.
All of the members of the group are musicians and have created work outside the collective:
Nathan Young has his solo project called Alms. Kade L. Twist is in a noise/drone band Usga based out of Phoenix, AZ. Raven Chacon has worked as a composer and performer in the West Coast and Southwest music scenes for the last dozen years.
Raven's work is primarily as a solo noise artist and chamber composer. He also co-founded the organization First Nations Composers Initiative and has also performed in dozens of bands. Raven currently has collaborations with musicians William Fowler Collins, Deerhoof's John Dieterich, and pianist Thollem McDonas.
RPM speaks with Postcommodity about coming together as a collective to create sound art and perform experimental noise for audiences and what drives their work. Interview and performance recorded at Museum of Contemporary Arts.
Revolutions Per Minute is a global new music platform, record label, and boutique agency for Indigenous music culture. RPM’s mission is to build a visionary community of Indigenous artists and to introduce Indigenous music to new audiences across Turtle Island and around the world. Our main site, RPM.fm, has featured the work of more than 500 Indigenous artists and shared their music across our social networks of more than 275,000 followers.
RPM Records is the first of its kind: a label for contemporary, cross-genre Indigenous music, run by Indigenous people. Selected by The FADER as one of “5 New Canadian Record Labels The Entire World Should Know”, RPM Records artists include Ziibiwan, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Exquisite Ghost, and Mob Bounce.
