So it's a double surprise. After going years without a new studio release, Sufjan Stevens dropped the All Delighted People EP on us on Friday. And today Asthmatic Kitty announced that a full-length…   Read Story »

It's been a while. Today Sufjan Stevens released a new, eight-song EP, titled All Delighted People, on Bandcamp. You can stream the tracks for free below, or download the whole thing for $5.…   Read Story »

Here we go, the man who won't complete the 50 States project will instead visit a good deal of them, for the first time in a long time, with a proper tour of "historic theaters and venues" he…   Read Story »

The National's performance of "Fake Empire" with Doveman on David Letterman a few years ago was one of those rare instances where Late Night television actually made me feel something. Now, a couple…   Read Story »

We talk a lot about "anticipation" when it comes to new releases, but it feels like folks have been awaiting the National's High Violet with a special excitement, one that's picked up with each…   Read Story »

In Brandon's beautiful review of the National's excellent show at Bell House last month, he mentioned "Runaway," a song that will be the slow jam of 2010. We're still waiting on its studio form, but…   Read Story »

Sufjan Stevens stopped by The Guardian to praise jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott. Scott sings in a youthful soprano, and finds unusual phrasings and emphases inside every song (Stevens talked about this in…   Read Story »

Ben + Vesper are a married couple in Northern NJ. They have kids. They also write that they "have almost exactly the same hair color in the right light and definitely both have curlz in any light."…   Read Story »

Perez Hilton is holding auditions for his new boy band reality show, and comedian Joe Mande is a lock with his sick version of "For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless in Ypsilanti (Silly…   Read Story »

The Avalanche's "The Perpetual Self, Or 'What Would Saul Alinsky Do?'" brings the joy in the trailer for the year-in-the-life-of-four-infants documentary Babies. Cute, yes, but a lot funnier if you…   Read Story »