Sunday 08.01.10: PART TIME PUNKS with ZOLA JESUS @ echo

PTP080110

There’s plenty of non-urban college girls with slightly hip parents, girls who felt “weird” in high-school and embraced the costumes of goth, the bleakness of Joy Division and the rants of Nietzsche, automatically declaring “French and philosophy” as majors upon arriving on campus. What makes Nika Danilova stand out from her absynthetic cohort is that she talked her parents into opera singing lessons early on and used those skills to record a really interesting lo-fi album (The Spoils) a couple of years ago as Zola Jesus. The indierati loved it and so Danilova has now graduated to proper studios (the recent Stridulum EP) and touring a mesmerizing stage act, invoking the ghosts of Lydia Lunch, Diamanda Galas and even a little Grace Slick. Those who wish Gaga was actually weird and We Are the World a little less drum-circley should find much to like in La Jesus.- LA Weekly

with
FANCY SPACE PEOPLE
GARBAJ KAETZ

resident dj Michael Stock spinning Post-Punk & Dark Wave