There’s been a little buzz building here and there about Zola Jesus — we were lucky enough to see her at SxSW — and we’d like to take this opportunity to turn the buzz up to 11. She’s Nika Danilova, she’s 19 and the quote on her MySpace says it all: “fear the banshee.”
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For the past month, we’ve been hearing too much news about new supergroup collaborations that are only half decent, and are formed on a whim of mid-life-rock-star existential crises, so when we heard news of Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart forming a new trio, we were pleasantly surprised.
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Our brethren over at the FADER have a bi-weekly column written by Jamie Johns called The Freak Scene. Well, maybe we’re freaks, because she talks about a lot of the music we cover on a regular basis, including this week’s installment with Zola Jesus and Emeralds.
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Photos by Derek Evers
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