Subject:

Zola Jesus

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Live: Zola Jesus Conquers The Guggenheim

    Zola Jesus Guggenheim Museum Thursday, May 10 Better than: Dancing about architecture. One had to assume that Nika Roza Danilova would make it into a museum sooner or later. A classically trained opera singer, she released her first album under the moniker Zola Jesus while studying French philosop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    This Weekend In New York: Zambri, Black Pus, Coasting, And Chain And The Gang Get Frisky

    In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Maybe it was just the warm weather messing with my head, but everyone in New York seemed a little bit friskier this weekend. From the black-clad romantics swaying back and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 21, 2012

    DARK VISIONS

    Grimes comes to Mercury Lounge

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Download: Doe Paoro's Untethered, Spectral "Born Whole"

    Brooklyn singer-songwriter Doe Paoro is a wild mixture of contemporary sounds and ancient techniques. Her single "Born Whole," taken from her debut Slow to Love (out last month), has the spectral fervor of Zola Jesus's haunted house swirl, Adele's retromaniacal bombast and ghostly traces of James Bl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    This Weekend In New York: Habibi, Natural Child, Liturgy, And Zola Jesus Bring Catharsis To Manhattan

    In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend we found ourselves in the rare situation that all the shows we wanted to see were in "the city": one at the Lower East Side's anachronistically good Cake Shop, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Zola Jesus's 10 Most Depressing Things About Winter

    Winter has been weird this year here in New York. The snow has been light, or oddly timed (Halloween is for witch hats, not snow bonnets); many weeks have had one day where it's 20 degrees and one where it's 60; there might be record-breaking winters elsewhere, but the idea that that could happen he ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 15, 2012

    Zola Jesus

    Winter has been weird this year here in New York. The snow has been light, or oddly timed (Halloween is for witch hats, not snow bonnets); many weeks have had one day where it's 20 degrees and one where it's 60; there might be record-breaking winters elsewhere, but the idea that that could happen he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part III: Occupying The Year Of The Woman Cliché In Hopes Of Blowing It Up

    Kanye West at Occupy Wall Street; confused woman. ​Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 14, 2011

    IN THE SWING

    Ducktails plays 285 Kent’s holiday party

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    CMJ Day Two: Zola Jesus Floats Beneath The Spotlight At (Le) Poisson Rouge

    Ben Lozovsky​CMJ, Day Two: Zola Jesus, Xanopticon Better than: Not not seeing her. The view from the audience at last night's Zola Jesus show was as follows: Two keyboardists, a violinist, and a drum-kit, presumably with a drummer behind it. They were shrouded in a dark, blue-ish glow that r ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 5, 2011

    INTO DARKNESS

    Paint your nails black for Zola Jesus

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Download: Cat Martino's Swirling, Smoldering, Sufjan-Assisted "Yr Not Alone"

    Andre Costantini​Cat Martino makes glowing, of-the-moment woozefolk full of ethereal drones and spacey loops, running modern indie-scruff through the 4AD dream machine. Best known as a valued touring musician for Brooklyn luminaries like Sufjan Stevens and YIMBY veteran Sharon Van Etten, Marti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    CMJ Announces Second Round Of Performers: J Mascis, Zomby, Kendrick Lamar, And More

    Surfer Blood, who once upon a time was "just some band." ​ Last month the CMJ Music Marathon—coming to the city's music venues from October 18 through 22—announced the first batch of artists that would be playing next month's industry confab; that list included (among others) Neon ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 13, 2011

    Zola Jesus

    Surfer Blood, who once upon a time was "just some band." ​ Last month the CMJ Music Marathon—coming to the city's music venues from October 18 through 22—announced the first batch of artists that would be playing next month's industry confab; that list included (among others) Neon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    SXSW 2011 In Photos, Starring Odd Future, Trash Talk, Das Racist, and Other People Who Like To Break Things

    You don't have to go home, Tyler, but you can't stay here. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​Another SXSW is in the books, granting great relief to those of us who were just subjected to five straight days of partying-related Twitter updates, and great sorrow to those who became accustomed to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Download: Religious To Damn's Moody Goth Melodrama "Glass Prayer"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​A mix of desert strum, hypnotic pulse, spirited-away synths, Lynchian weirdness, and Fleetwood Maximalism, it's not entirely certain if Brooklyn's Religious to Damn want to take you higher or drag y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Zach Baron's Top 10 Albums of 2010

    Guess who? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Alright, let's do this, before I change my mind. With apologies to The-Dream, Sleigh Bells, Ted Leo, Kylesa, Swans, Zola Jesus, Marnie Stern, and all other vestiges of my punk rock past, and especially you Nicki Minaj, who missed both of my lists this year. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    The Year In Hardcore Circa 2010, Featuring OFF!, Trash Talk, Fucked Up, and More

    On top of our growing 2010 year in review coverage, we've asked some pals to help out, too. Below, Pitchfork/Status Ain't Hood writer Tom Breihan looks back at the year in hardcore. OFF! at L.A.'s 6th St. Warehouse. Photo by Sean Peterson.​Let's talk for a minute about this idea: Hardcore in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Live: Zola Jesus, Glasser, And Deradoorian Battle Brooklyn Bowl's Actual Bowlers During Pitchfork's #Offline Festival

    ​Glasser (top) and Zola Jesus, drowning out the crashing of pins. Pics by Puja.​Zola Jesus/Deradoorian/Glasser Brooklyn Bowl Friday, October 22 CMJ needs to abolish this whole badge thing. The festival has admirably justified its existence, but we still can't understand the math behind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    CMJ Day Three: Maximum Balloon Deal With Dance-Music Bias At Pitchfork's #Offline Festival

    Electronic musicians are people too. Pic by Puja.​Maximum Balloon Brooklyn Bowl Thursday, October 21 Last night, Pitchfork kicked off their #Offline Festival -- a three-day, anti-CMJ stint at Brooklyn Bowl. For many, this is a neatly packaged delivery of the bigger buzz bands of 2010, featuri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Download: Pop. 1280, "Step Into the Grid"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​After last year's itchy (and shockingly prescient) Bedbugs 7", the scum-scraping bloody-booger-wipes in nu-pigfuckers Pop. 1280 have returned with their first 12", The Grid EP. Holing up in producer ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2010

    the xx

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​After last year's itchy (and shockingly prescient) Bedbugs 7", the scum-scraping bloody-booger-wipes in nu-pigfuckers Pop. 1280 have returned with their first 12", The Grid EP. Holing up in producer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    So Here's What Terry Gilliam Directing An Arcade Fire Concert Looks Like

    Sorry haters (keep trying!), but no, a giant cartoon foot doesn't appear out of nowhere and crush our new arena-rock overlords, who played Madison Square Garden again last night (Wednesday's opening gig was wonderful), this time streamed on the web in its entirety, filmed by no less a personage th ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 29, 2010

    BEASTLY BOYS

    A free show with Bear in Heaven

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2010

    CHILD'S PLAY

    Join the release party for Keepaway

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Twin Sister Talk the Inspiration Behind Color Your Life's "All Around And Away We Go"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Long Island occult-pop five-piece Twin Sister have all the colorful makings of being the next weirdo art-swirl cult smash--that cold-yet-comforting croon, those wet washes of creepy reverb and drone ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 6, 2010

    Xiu Xiu+tUnE-YaRdS+Zola Jesus

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Long Island occult-pop five-piece Twin Sister have all the colorful makings of being the next weirdo art-swirl cult smash--that cold-yet-comforting croon, those wet washes of creepy reverb and drone ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 9, 2010

    PC Worship

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Long Island occult-pop five-piece Twin Sister have all the colorful makings of being the next weirdo art-swirl cult smash--that cold-yet-comforting croon, those wet washes of creepy reverb and drone ... More >>

  • Music

    July 1, 2009

    The Sacred Bones Label Finds Shades of Dark

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Long Island occult-pop five-piece Twin Sister have all the colorful makings of being the next weirdo art-swirl cult smash--that cold-yet-comforting croon, those wet washes of creepy reverb and drone ... More >>

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Browse Voice Nation
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy