It’s hard to remember a female pop vocalist (Cat Power? PJ Harvey?) who earned the ecstatic early accolades to match Alina Simone’s. For this unmissable engagement—her last in the area before a long European tour—the sophisticated Ukraine-born singer-songwriter celebrates the music of Yanka Dyagileva, a likely suicide who was Russia’s erstwhile answer to Patti Smith. Hosted by funny man Eugene Mirman.
— Sara Cardace