Kevin Bronson on February 23rd, 2009

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It was bad enough that Nico Vega had to postpone its hometown album-release show at the 11th hour on Feb. 5 – the aftermath caused some heartache too. “You get pictures from people, ‘This is me, standing outside the Roxy after driving two hours in the rain,'” singer Aja Volkman says. “Honestly, it was hard on me. I never want to go through that again.”

Volkman has put behind her the debilitating cough/cold that sidelined her early this month, and the L.A. trio is revving up for its makeup date Tuesday. From a tour stop in Cleveland, the frontwoman says that finally having the album out is exhilarating.”  “I feel like we worked for the last four years to make something great, and now here it is: This is the record,” she says. “The next time it won’t take so long because we learned so much from the process. We were patient with it, and it paid off – I think we got it right.”

She acknowledged that the album possesses a certain amount of sonic sprawl, “but I think it ended up right along the lines of what we intended,” she says. “It is a little bit all over the place, but that’s our personalities.”

||| Live: Nico Vega, with the Yelling and the Union Line, play Tuesday at the Roxy Theatre.