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Pipeline has a pair of tickets to see goth pop star and fashion icon Zola Jesus on Thursday, May 5. To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winners will be drawn and emailed on Wednesday, May 4.

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From our sponsors at Holocene:
Zola Jesus
w/ Naked On The Vague, DJ Nightschool
Thursday, May 5
8:30 p.m. | $12 advance | 21+
Purchase Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets

Holocene
1001 SE Morrison Street
www.holocene.org

2010 was a benchmark year for the young Miss Nika Roza Danilova. Under the moniker Zola Jesus, Nika released two stunning EP’s stateside via Sacred Bones, Stridulum and Valusia and abroad combined those (mostly) into her debut full length, Stridulum II, for Berlin based Souterrain Transmissions. The year’s first single, “Night” earned the estimable Best New Music seal of approval just before she embarked on several very well attended SXSW appearances.

The video for ‘Night’ quickly elevated her to fashion icon as it appeared in several regions of Vogue and the NME declared her “goth’s new figurehead.” Nika was hand chosen by designer Angelos Frentzos to make her European debut performance in Milan during his fashion week show. Zola Jesus continued to play shows in various incarnations in various parts of the country every weekend from March until August.

Then she graduated college.

Immediately following, Nika and band embarked on three back-to-back tours of Europe and the US opening for Fever Ray, The xx and Warpaint amongst dozens of headline shows. She played Berlin Fest, Primavera Club, headlined Pitchfork’s Offline Fest and her live performances garnered reviews as stunning as her recorded output. Valusia was released mid-October while on tour, and contained one new song (read: secret weapon) not on Stridulum II– Chris Coady produced single “Poor Animal”. This undeniable dance-floor masterpiece soared up the radio charts and continues to burn brightly on BBC 1 alongside her simultaneously ranking re-working of previous cut, “Sea Talk”. All three of these singles along with “I Can’t Stand” ranked among the New York Times, Pitchfork and LA Times’ singles of the year. Stridulum II appeared on NME and Uncut’s albums of the year. To say her follow-up full length due this fall is highly anticipated might be a bit of an undershoot, but we’ll leave all that hyperbole to the tribunal.