Amid another brutal winter in 2009, then-University of Wisconsin student Niki Roza Danilova established a recording studio in her apartment, where she recorded her first album, The Spoils. Not long after, Danilova, popularly known as Zola Jesus, emerged as a promising underground artist, attracting the likes of Jamie xx from The xx and later M83. Her success … Continue reading UW alum Zola Jesus discusses leap from makeshift apartment studio to international tours