Brandon Berry

3 days ago | daytondailynews.com | Brandon Berry

Raechel Anne Jolie is a writer, feminist professor, punk-encultured queer femme anarchist, ex-academic, and forest witch living in Northeast, Ohio. Her writing focuses primarily on sex, gender, class, media, and social movements. Her memoir, “Rust Belt Femme” (Belt, 2020), was the winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction, an NPR Favorite Book of 2020, and a runner-up for the Heartland Bookseller’s Award.

4 days ago | daytondailynews.com | Brandon Berry

Qureshi’s performance at Waynesville Music on Saturday, June 7 will be an intimate listening room experience. She plans on two sets, the first featuring a classically-influenced and original new age guitar repertoire on steel and nylon strings; the second, an ambient “sound immersion” with ancient instruments designed to evoke a state of calm. The venue can only accommodate an audience of 30 people. Tickets are on sale now.

5 days ago | daytondailynews.com | Brandon Berry

The hour before my 15-minute interview with Buddy Guy, I was getting pretty sweaty and nervous. This happens a lot, as if I’m perpetually waiting to play a hypothetical sold-out show I can’t back out of, to an audience I can hear getting antsy from the wings — except it’s me about to take a phone call at my kitchen counter. ExploreSo, in the time remaining before the 9 a.m. interview, I strummed an acoustic guitar, and my nerves about talking with a blues legend quietly subsided.

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Brandon Berry

Born Dwayne Holt, he adopted the name Illwin at the now-defunct McNally Smith College of Music in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There, enrolled in the hip-hop studies program, he started dropping music on SoundCloud. He also helped his class craft a marketing campaign for General Mills, the multinational manufacturer, during his time at the college. The class won the competition with a song called “Crazy,” which was used as an April Fools theme song for Hamburger Helper. It went viral.

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Brandon Berry

In conjunction with the album’s release, Smug Brothers will be performing May 31 at Blind Bob’s, with special guests Me Time, Chuck 2, and Motion Club. ExploreKyle Melton, lead singer and guitarist of the group, said Smug Brothers built the new album “out of the death of an old friend,” which is especially poignant considering the 4-track was an essential piece to the Brothers’ tape hiss iconography — like another member of the band.