Chicago musician AZITA, who returned from a long hibernation in 2020 with new single “Shooting Birds Out of the Sky,” will release Glen Echo on March 5 via Drag City. It’s her first album in eight ...

The first time you see “If U Die,” the new video from Chicago singer-songwriter Azita Youssefi, it might take you a minute to realize that the colorful rock band ...

As a former member of experimental noise-rock troupes the Scissor Girls and Bride of No-No, Chicago-based musician AZITA (full name Azita Youssefi) is no stranger to over-the-top performances. Yet ...

Azita Youssefi — a Chicago-based music educator and a veteran of such esteemed bands as no wavers Scissor Girls, noise experimentalists U.S. Maple, and the extreme performance art project Bride Of ...

On her third Drag City solo album, Azita scraps most of her Steely Dan-like tendencies for a more traditional (if subtly unnerving) take on cabaret-pop. But Azita Youseffi seems to have gotten most of ...