In her music, you can hear a sense of reaching out to experiences and emotions that run deeper than and resonate more strongly than any surface level expression of the artistic impulse ever could.

The world has changed a lot since the release of the 2014 Zola Jesus album Taiga. That record was the only one that Nika Roza Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, has put out with well-known experimental-music ...

What’s indisputable about Zola Jesus (real name Nika Roza Danilova) is that she is clearly talented, and has an obvious passion for what she does. First Avenue’s description of the concert says that ...

Singer/songwriter Nika Roza Danilova (aka Zola Jesus) launched the rollout for her first album in five years, Arkhon (out May 20 on Sacred Bones), back in March with the immense lead single “Lost.” ...

When she was young, Nika Danilova trained to sing opera but often lost her voice due to performance anxiety. When Danilova began performing as Zola Jesus in Madison, Wisconsin, her harrowing voice ...

The name isn’t blasphemous, at least not intentionally. In fact, Zola Jesus (sometimes known as Nika Roza Danilova) combined French writer Émile Zola with our Lord and Savior’s name to alienate her ...

"I've thought about making music under my birth name going forward, but I think that might just confuse people." Nika Roza Danilova dubbed herself Zola Jesus when she was 19, almost four albums ago ...

Nika Roza Danilova—who writes and performs as Zola Jesus—first appeared to the music world with her 2009 debut full-length, The Spoils. A purveyor of dark sounds and goth…er, ghostly wails, subsequent ...

Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights is certainly a unique venue for a contemporary indie music performance—"nontraditional," as Nika Roza Danilova puts it—but for the ethereally gothic ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Despite rumors of closure, the popular bar, restaurant, and live music venue, Zola, in downtown Spokane is staying open thanks to new ownership taking over earlier this year. “It’s a ...

Last May, when Nika Rosa Danilova performed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City – wearing a conch shell-inspired LED encrusted collar and accompanied by the Mivos Quartet and composer JG ...

Fifty miles outside Madison, Wis. sits a humble monastery surrounded by seventeen acres of forest, where practitioners of the Rinzai tradition, a school of Zen Buddhism, travel to find deep clarity of ...