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Diverse and Edgy Musicians Perform, Dance and Reveal on the ‘Indie Rooftop’ (TV Series Review)

Mike Szymanski
5 min readApr 10, 2023

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Indie Rooftop

Rating: 7/10

Director: Jasmine Allen Tillman

Writer: Jasmine Allen Tillman

Style: Music Documentary

Time: About 20 minutes, 7 episodes

Review by Mike Szymanski

From Baltimore to Nigeria, Manhattan to Virginia, documentary filmmaker Jasmine Allen Tillman found the most diverse and colorful critically-acclaimed indie musicians who were filmed in Chicago.

She had them come up to a rooftop studio and play their music and talk about themselves.

There couldn’t be a more eclectic crowd among the musicians she picked: from a flamenco pop singer to a hip hop artist, to a Grammy-nominated songwriter and a Native American sings folk music in his native tongue.

Director Jasmine is a new parent who was in her third trimester with her second child while filming this documentary.

She says, “I witnessed the power music had to comfort my son and bring him joy and that’s what I wanted to share.”

Inspired by documentaries such as “Hype” and “Gimme Shelter” and most notably the Beatles rooftop performance, Jasmine…

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Mike Szymanski
Mike Szymanski

Written by Mike Szymanski

Journalist, writer, activist and bisexual, living with Multiple Sclerosis and Dachshunds in Hollywood.

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