Sufjan Stevens

Posted in 2009, albums, sufjan stevens Tagged: illinoise, paste magazine, top albums of the decade Sufjan Stevens’ Illinoise album tops Paste Magazine’s top albums of the decade.  See the entire list at  The 50 Best Albums of the Decade (2000-2009) 1. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois [Asthmati...

Posted in albums, music, sufjan stevens Tagged: Upcoming releases Well, I’m trying a lot of new material on this tour and they’re kind of long-form songs—meandering, works in progress, but I’m hoping that they’ll eventually find themselves on an album. Sufjan Steven gives an interview...

By kidpretentious Hearing the new songs sprinkled in with the favorites of Illinois, Seven Swans, and Michigan is just another reminder of Sufan's versatility, and you'd better believe that his staying power is being proven once again. After an encore featuring the song "Jacksonville," Stevens thanked...

Sufjan Stevens pops up again on this album by Lowell Brams - Music For Insominiacs, as does Bryce Dessner of the National. The album is due out December 8 on Asthmatic Kitty Records Lowell Brams ft. Sufjan Stevens – AlphatoTheta.mp3 via Asthmatic Kitty Records

Posted in 2007, 2008, 2009, sufjan stevens Tagged: alec duffy, the lonely man of winter, the wall street journal “This is the finest way we felt we could curate this song, It brings people together,”  rather than “being lost among 14,000 iTunes.” - Alec Duffy on the Sufjan Steven’s song The...

 CT As concept albums have increasingly become the next "go-to" step for musicians to prove themselves or test their mettle (Green Day, Sufjan Stevens, The Who, Yes, and Jay-Z), The Decemberists have always seemed like the ones to do it and successfully ...

is one of the strongest debut albums I've heard in some time, a swirling mass of atmospheric melodies and instrumentation. The whole album is streaming online, and it's well worth a listen for fans of artists like Grizzly Bear and Sufjan Stevens. ...

 TX By Alex Daniel | Thursday, March 19, 2009, 12:05 PM The dreamy indie pop of Chicago’s Anathallo plays like a spacier, synth-driven Sufjan Stevens, and if you listen to the soaring melodies and twinkling orchestral instrumental work on their albums, ...

 UK Hayden could quite easily be compared to a Canadian Stephen Fretwell mixed with Neil Young and Sufjan Stevens inventiveness. Each song is of great quality and formed fantastically. This might not be one of the easiest albums to purchase in the UK but ...

All Songs Considered, February 16, 2009 - Laura Gibson is a shy, soft-spoken singer based in Portland, Ore., who is about to release one of the year's most breathtaking albums. Beasts of Seasons is a quiet masterpiece, with gorgeous songs that have ...

Amazon The new album “I Was a King” features collaborations from Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh ), Sufjan Stevens, Daniel Smith (Danielson) and Gary Olson (Ladybug Transistor) . The album was recorded at Marlborough Farms (Brooklyn, NY) and mixed by Nick Terry (Primal Scream, The Lib...

 GA - Releasing a video for "Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake" This trippy instrumental track from The Avalanche slips by mostly unnoticed in under two ...

Sufjan Stevens and his pals at Sounds Familyre like to celebrate the season with new Christmas music. A new track from the second volume of SF's A Familyre ... Rosie Thomas: A Very Quiet Christmas NPR Sufjan For Christmas - A Top Story This Week antiMUSIC.com

Last year Sufjan Stevens held that Xmas Xchange. Previously, he released plenty of Holiday albums for your consumption. Even when he didn't put up those holiday songs for sale, he was still recording new Christmas albums and making them available for his friends. This year, one of his less s...

By queerninja@dopefiend.co.uk She's a Rainbow â Rolling Stones; Sunny â Boney M; Christmas Feeling Ska â Toots & The Maytals; One By One â The Black Seeds; Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) â The Pogues; Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance! - Sufjan Stevens; Merry Fucking Christmas â Mr Garrison; ESC, ALT...

While checking my blog stats I saw some searches for a new Sufjan Stevens Christmas collection. New music from Sufi is always welcomed and I was able to find this posting at volume-knob with some info (and music) on the new ep called Astral Inter Planet Space Captain Christmas Infinity Voya...

 CA - Swell from Metermaids was excited to re-invent the music of Stevens, stating, "Sufjan Stevens's album Illinoise is one of a handful of albums that changed ...

By Amy Phillips Every year, Sufjan Stevens records a Christmas record. His first five albums were collected on the box set Songs for Christmas, released by Asthmatic Kitty in 2006. But he hasn't stopped making them. Indeed, Sufjan made Christmas records in 2006, 2007, and, yes, 2008, passing them out to fr...

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 GA - Dec 11, 2008 The festivities are in support of Stevens' winter 2008 album, Songs for Christmas, which is, incidentally, one of the six activity pages includes a free ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Dodge) MOKB : What was your favorite album or musician of 2008? Vito Aiuto : The Godfather Vito Aiuto : I wish it would snow in New York during Christmas. I wish joy for everyone here in Brooklyn. I sort of wish we had a dishwasher. (But not really).

By Zack Zack        This past semester I took a class at the University of Wisconsin called “Black Music and Modern American Culture”. We covered black American music from James Carr, Sam Cooke and the sounds of the early 60’s all the way to Wu-Tang, Outkast, Scarface, and the emergence of new-age...

By Aaron(noreply@blogger.com) Link to Torrent. (356 MB, FLAC) 1. The Fifty States 5. Sister 6. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. 7. Casimir Pulaski Day 8. Jacksonville Cheer 9. Jacksonville 11. Chicago Cheer 12. Chicago 13. Come On! Feel The Illinoise! 14. Metropolis Cheer 16. Illinois Cheer

By Aaron(noreply@blogger.com) Also, I'm going to start only keeping things up for about a week or so. I'll keep important things up for a long time (like the Sufjan Stevens stuff and for now, the National Live @ KEXP), so don't worry about stuff like that. MP3 Suite No. 2, Prelude MP3 Suite No. 3, Gigue

By Aaron(noreply@blogger.com) I'm really suprised it took me so long to get into Castanets. I mean, after all, they are on the same the label as the great Sufjan Stevens. Castanets is what I'd call "raw," but not in the sense that his talent has yet to be developed. In fact, that's far from the case. His vocals are pushed and stres...

By Kerry Skemp That feeling of wanting was not helped by how much Fitzsimmons’ voice recalls Sufjan Stevens (interesting note: Fitzsimmons actually lives in Jacksonville); we spent half the night just waiting for the lush choruses of strings, horns, and singers that back up Stevens’ infectious tun...

Indie darling Sufjan Stevens and his business partner Lowell Brams have just announced that they're doing a nice thing with a new release on their Asthmatic Kitty label (one we've long been a fan of). They're releasing a compilation entitled Habitat, which will be sold to benefit Habitat...

By Hazel Sheffield Sufjan Stevens once tried to write fifty albums, one for every American state. If he’d taken the melodic warmth of his songwriting further afield, to the colourful coasts of Central America, the result may have been something like this. ...

By Mike Diver Singer-what-releases-lots-of-stuff Sufjan Stevens - not that we want him to slow his production rate down, you understand - is to release a five-disc festive set this coming Christmas. Songs For Christmas will be available from November ...

By Nella Mia Anima of MOG Listen to Day Job Here The Postal Service/Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Sufjan Stevens, Brian Wilson, The Beatles?  Not a bad blend, right?  It works for me.  I like his voice and I like what he writes.  I believe I've found another rainy day playlist addition.

By Josh Jackson Back in 1998, we launched an online CD retailer called PasteMusic.com, and one of the first CDs we added to the site was by a band called Marzuki, fronted by Shannon Stephens with a multi-instrumentalist named Sufjan Stevens. ...

By Old Man now a few years old) is one of the few albums that does justice to the religious holidays, both of Christ's birth (through old hymns), western civilizations adoption of a whole conglomerations of winter rituals, and the events taking ...

Telegraph.co.uk South by Southwest review: gutsy British artists Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Mar 17, 2008 Cult singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens hosted a great evening of acts from his Asthmatic Kitty label in a Presbyterian church, and synth-pop experimentalists ...

Artist: Sufjan Stevens Tags: piano, instrumental, interlude, electronic, electronica Video The track first appeared on Sufjan's 2006 album, The Avalanche, a selection of outtakes and extras from his successful Illinoise album of 2005.

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By Stuart Waterman You submit one of your original songs, and the people at Asthmatic Kitty records pick the best one. The winner then swaps the rights to their song for the rights to one of Sufjan's! Pretty sweet idea, I reckon. ...

This is a video review of Seven Swans. My favorite album by sufjan. Listen to a good man is hard to find, and to be alone with you. every song on ... www.expotv.com

By The Theory Christian rock has been much maligned in the mainstream press. While the faithful like to think this is due to some conspiracy to repress the religious, the plain and simple fact is that the visible Christian rock out there has -- up until recently -- been pretty mediocre. If a quality produc...

By Patrick A Northern Chorus's The Millions Too Many is a triumphant sonic cathedral of an album, full of soaring melodies and gorgeous instrumentation in the style of The Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens. It's one of the most exciting, precise albums I've heard so far this year, and worthy of far more a...

By Jeff Baum Via Brooklyn Vegan, we've learned this morning that Sufjan Stevens will be performing a special series of shows at BAM this November at the Next Wave Festival titled "The BQE" and described as "a symphonic and cinematic exploration of one of New York's least celebrated monuments". In wha...

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By Jack When Seattlest made it to the Paramount last year for what would be an amazing performance from Sufjan Stevens, we were running a little late and needed a drink. Straight to the little bar we went, causing us to miss most of the opening act. We did settle, finally, in our seat for the last couple...

By Brewmaster Wed, 5/12/07 - Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music (8pm) The Brewmaster lives, laughs, hustles, plays and attempts to survive in New York City. A music and art lover with passion, Brewmaster freelances on these topics and others.

By Joey deVilla That was over fifteen years ago, and a lifetime away. A good number of us have young kids and have had to make the choice: put up with The Wiggles and the songs from the Thomas the Tank Engine series, or make like the "grups" from places like Brooklyn's Park Slope, who have decided "that Sufjan S...

Sometimes I don't even celebrate Christmas," says singer-songwriter and holiday anti-consumerist Sufjan Stevens, 31, who, paradoxically, just released a five-CD set, Songs for Christmas. He began the project in 2001 as an exercise in understanding yuletide songs, tinkering with a...

Stevens digs this "pastoral pop" record from the Fleetwood Mac-channeling Texas quintet: "It compels the listener to forget all the fussiness that goes into making an album." The twentieth-century French composer and pianist was a "modern, worldly, experimental man with a soft spot f...

By dave Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for December 3, 2006. We go around the podosphere in this episode. I play a song from Sufjan Stevens and talk about the sentimental feelings it invokes in me; I play a bunch of clips - Richard Dawkins on In Our Time; Nando [...]

Review: Mixing humorously observed originals with carols roasted on an open fire and obscurities dug out of the piano bench, these five EPs (four originally intended as gifts for fans and friends) achieve a shade of pretty just right for a secular holiday with special meaning for adults...

By The Theory Bands grow and change. Sometimes it is a wild, unpredictable leap (Exhibit A: Sufjan Stevens’ A Sun Came to Enjoy Your Rabbit), sometimes it is barely discernable (Exhibit B: Switchfoot’s The Beautiful Letdown to Nothing Is Sound), but most frequent it is the gradual change (Exhibit C: S...

By Roland Allen Come on feel the IllinoiseThe El Rey Theater in Los Angeles was stop #2 for Sufjan Stevens' Illinoise Tour. I had considered going to the opening show in Solano Beach, which was the night before, but my friend, Owen, who works for MTV in Santa Monica, suggested that I come up to Los Angeles and...