Sufjan Stevens

It Takes a Trek to Hear This Track

source: Wall Street Journal

By S. MITRA KALITA BROOKLYN, NY -- Indie folk and rock singer Sufjan Stevens has avid fans in many countries who are desperate to hear one of his latest songs. But to do that, they have to get to Alec Duffy's apartment in Brooklyn. ...

Published Thu, Jun 11

Concert Calendar: Dan Deacon, Ben Lee, Her Space Holiday

source: blog.georgetownvoice.com

 DC Like sainthood, this holy experience brings together the artist's past with The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' band, and creates some atmospheric indie pop. Her new album, Actor, only breaches the surface of what this woman can do in a live ...

Published Fri, May 15

A Mash Note Written in a Foreign Language

source: Brooklyn Rail

 NY Temple made a splash on the indie circuit with his first two albums, Hold a Match for a Gasoline World and Snowbeast, and much of the acclaim came from fellow singer-songwriters. His vocals were a particularly big hit. (Sufjan Stevens gushed that ...

Published Mon, Apr 6

Debut Outshines K’Naan’s New Release

source: The Emory Wheel

The most interesting track on the album is Sufjan Stevens’ contribution, “You Are The Blood,” an update of a Castanets song. On the 10-minute track, Stevens combines his horn-filled indie-rock with electronic beats. The two sounds mesh surprisingly ...

Published Thu, Feb 26

Pitchfork is shocked (shocked!) to find that the lame kind of ...

source: Creative Loafing Sarasota

 FL These days, the site overwhelmingly promotes safe, cutesy, wimpy light-rock: quiet, boring albums by artists like The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Grizzly Bear, etc. But in a review of an indie rock charity compilation posted on the site this morning, ...

Published Thu, Feb 26

Dark Was the Night sets goal for a bright future

source: The Rice Thresher

The Dessners have assembled a veritable who's-who list of indie darlings - Sufjan Stevens! Bon Iver! Yeasayer! Feist! That guy from TV on the Radio! - into Dark Was the Night, a charity compilation album whose profits go towards the Red Hot ...

Published Thu, Feb 19

Indie Label Asthmatic Shares "What is Working?"

source: All About Jazz

 PA “ Today Michael Kaufmann, John Beeler and the team at indie label Asthmatic Kitty (Sufjan Stevens, I Heart Lung, Welcome Wagon, Castanets, Half-handed Cloud) share their philosophies and methodology. MARATHON RUNNING - The temptation is the glory ...

Published Wed, Feb 11

Andrew Bird (Sold Out)

source: Metromix

 IL Reviewers love to describe the Chicago native’s work as “quirky,” but that descriptor is becoming increasingly less apt as Bird moves from his brainy, if goofy, take on urbane indie-pop to a neo-Americana version of a more mature Sufjan Stevens. ...

Published Sun, Feb 8