TOP 12 ACT TO SEE AT SXSW 2008
Alina Simone isn’t just coming to SXSW to promote her last record, 2007’s lovely and mournful “Placelessness.” She also has a new project up her sleeve—an album covering the music of Russian punk-folk legend Yanka Dyagileva, sung in Russian. Born in the Ukraine and raised in Boston, Simone channels Cat Power and PJ Harvey, with clever lyrics about being lost on the road, watching a lover crash before your eyes and finding out just how interconnected most of humanity really is.