Showing All "Sufjan Stevens" Posts

The second clip from the still-incredible Yellow House LP sees Grizzly Bear opt for a new director (Jesse Ewles), while keeping somethings constant: namely, bizarre, adjective-defying characters…   Read Story »
Last time Cloak & Dagger pranked someone, they asked Ben Gibbard for Colin Meloy's phone number. This week, it pays off when Cloak & Dagger rings up Colin and ask him about the formative sexual…   Read Story »
Figured we'd wait a day for you to process and enjoy Sufjan's awesome, shockin' raw tune "In The Words Of The Governor" -- just 'cause it took us at least that long to stop listening (obsessively) --…   Read Story »
Since Illinois, winged maestro Sufjan Stevens has given us various avian outtakes and covers (Lefty Frizzell w/ David Byrne, Joni Mitchell, etc.), but far as we can figure, this track is the first…   Read Story »
Have you seen New York Magazine's new Sex & Love issue? The cover girl is award-winning Indie Rock Hottie Katrina Kerns, of Illinoisemakers fame. In the mag's Waiting Room feature, "real live New…   Read Story »
This past weekend, Sufjan performed at Cincinnati's MUSICNOW festival and regaled the crowd in some unreleased material which you are obviously dying to hear. No secret Soof's got a thing for birds.…   Read Story »
A dazzling cadre of our favorite artists have been assembled for the "first major US tribute album" to the illustrious Joni; we told ya about it earlier this year, but now we have a little audio to…   Read Story »
Our patron saint of chamber pop seems to be getting his Klosterman on in this essay posted at Asthmatic Kitty:There are a lot more terms flying around today: New Rock, Ironic Rock, Situational Rock,…   Read Story »
A solid chunk of the States is under a wintry mix of snow and freezing rain, making the trip to the corner store for a card for your sweetheart a daunting proposition. So in the name of safety,…   Read Story »
The night before the mainstream music industry self-fellated on worldwide television, the indie scene had a little backslapping of its own at Irving Plaza for the PLUG Awards show which, despite…   Read Story »