The Hotness: Alina Simone
Regardless of her politics, the Brooklyn – via – Massachusetts – via -Ukraine singer-songwriter Alina Simone’s Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware keeps coming back to our stereo no matter how many times we try to say we’re “done” with it. The daughter of political refugees whose dad refused to join the KGB (what a badass), the ethereal singer hopped around the US before recently settling in Brooklyn. After her 2007 debut album Placelessness, Beware is an mystifying and enchanting cover album of Siberian cult musician Yanka Dyagileva, who died mysteriously in 1991.