Nialler9 — Nika Roza Danilova aka Zola Jesus has announced her return with a new album on her old label Sacred Bones with the album Okovi, which is dark and electronic like her earlier work on that label. Live bandmate Alex DeGroot, producer/musician WIFE... more info

Stereogum — While Zola Jesus' last album saw the noise-goth queen stepping into the light, the upcoming Okovi is shaping up to be something much darker. Lead single "Exhumed" was beautifully punishing, but new song "Soak" is just beautiful -- a shadowy, operatic... more info

New York Times — Hear the week's most notable songs, from Pharrell Williams' less-than-happy new tune to Oneohtrix Point Never's collaboration with Iggy Pop. more info

Stereogum — Zola Jesus is returning in the fall with Okovi, the follow-up to her 2014 album Taiga . "Okovi is a Slavic word for shackles," Nika Roza Danilova writes in the artist statement that accompanies the announcement. "We're all shackled to something -- t... more info

The Quietus — 'Exhumed' arrives ahead of brand new album due in September more info

Stereogum — Basilica SoundScape will return to Hudson, NY for its sixth consecutive year the weekend of 9/15-17, and its initial lineup has been revealed. The multidisciplinary festival takes place at Basilica Hudson, a 19th-century factory that now serves as an... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Blow's Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne launched WOMANPRODUCER.com a while back, which is an internet archive of data on female and non-binary music producers." They'll be expanding the site's reach with a series of events this mon... more info

KEXP Seattle — For the fourth year, KEXP is proud to sponsor the Macefield Music Festival, happening this weekend, Friday, September 30th through Sunday, October 2nd, throughout Ballard. As always, the line-up looks like a KEXP playlist, with this year’s headline... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The film, like the live show, features St. Vincent, Nelly Furtado, Devonté Hynes, Zola Jesus, Ad-Rock, tUnE-yArDs and more. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Yesterday, my entire Twitter feed lost its collective mind over “the Zola story.” The story is a narrative, told entirely in the medium of Twitter, about two strippers who go to Florida for the weekend and encounter all sorts of deception, violen... more info