Dawnie Walton's novel is a faux oral history about an interracial rock duo. Opal is a Black proto Afro-punk singer from Detroit, and Nev is a... '70s Music Journalism Gets An Overdue Rewrite In Debut ...

I knew from all the buzz about The Final Revival of Opal & Nev that it's a work of fiction by first-time novelist Dawnie Walton. But after I started her book, I had to stop and double check to make ...

With singles like this year's "Kitchen Song" and "I Don’t Like You, But I Love You," Brighton-based musician Opal Mag has posited herself as a promising new voice of the '90s indie rock revival. Right ...

Leave it to a fiery soul legend to make a low-key TMI anthem. Before tell-all memoirs by Cybill Shepherd or Karrine Stefans, Betty Davis, who died in February at 77, put no less an eminence than Miles ...

There’s something addictive about Addison Rae singing, “So I put my headphones on/ Listen to my favorite song” on the Addison single “Headphones On.” British singer-songwriter Opal Mag pulls a similar ...

Dawnie Walton left her job as the deputy managing editor of Essence to write The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. Dawnie Walton was working as the deputy managing editor at Essence in 2015 when she ...