Azita

A longtime fixture of the Chicago underground music scene, singer and multi-instrumentalist Azita Youssefi (sometimes credited as simply AZ or simply Azita) went from the caustic no wave scrawl of her mid-'90s trio the Scissor Girls to considerably more reflective singer/songwriter work under her given name as time went by. Azita's stormy songwriting and nuanced arrangements characterized her music throughout the 2000s, 2010s, and beyond, going to places mellow and turbulent on albums like 2012's Year. Youssefi was born in the U.S. in 1971 but spent the better part of her for...