Sufjan Stevens News

Blending baroque instrumentals with modern angst and the devasting croon of Win Butler, Arcade Fire's debut can cater to myriad settings: studying, mourning, running, rebuilding your life.

Language Advisory: The language in some of the featured songs is not suitable for all ages .

Just what is one to do with Sufjan Stevens? Like Ani DiFranco, the only other semi-popular musician of his generation to whom he can be compared, Stevens is a '70s child with as much talent as energy and more of both than he knows what to do with.

Midweek Music News Roundup 11.11.09: If You're Not Down With Who I Am, Look At Them Now, They're All in My Hands Posted by Lucas Wesley on 11.11.2009 Pixies offer up a new release, The Magnetic Fields offer up a new album, Yoko, Sean and Julian Lennon offer up an old release, Sufjan Stevens offers up a retraction, Tom Waits tweets, AC/DC fans fight ...

Stace England: He shoots, he scores. Details: Screening of Within Our Gates along with Stace England's live film score 7 p.m. Friday, November 13.

On Nov. 2, 2009, Paste magazine released its list of The 50 Best Albums of the Decade, and topping that list was Illinois, the 2005 masterpiece from Sufjan Stevens.

A month ago, a few Frequency frequenters and I picked apart Pitchfork's list of the best records of the past decade, and commenter Shannon said she was looking forward to Paste magazine's picks.

Caption: Sufjan Stevens rehearses ahead of his concert at the State Theatre as part of the annual Sydney Festival Sydney, Australia.

While we secretly wish Sufjan would get going with an album about Rhode Island , we're happy to note that the musician's latest dalliances in orchestral chamber music and experimental filmmaking are almost as good as his songs about Michigan-based serial killers.

We all know best-of lists are meant to provoke, to make us think and to get us angry enough to vent to others.

Inspired by a stretch of expressway that runs from Brooklyn to Queens, the instrumental The BQE is Sufjan Steven's jittering, majestic take on a contemporary classical score.

ARMS is the solo project of Todd Goldstein , guitarist for Brooklyn indie-pop band the Harlem Shakes , and " Tiger Tamer " is a track from his new album, Kids Aflame , which is finally getting a proper US release through Gigantic after kicking around as a UK import for the past year.

Glyphin' Out by Erin K. Drew - This week in Asthmatic Kitty-land Two shows featuring Asthmatic Kitty artists function both as basic marketing tools for three products being released in October - Jookabox's Dead Zone Boys , Stevens's BQE on CD and DVD, Osso's Run Rabbit Run - as well as clever, community-building events that connect the label's ...

ANNIE CLARK NEVER thought anybody would hear the songs she wrote in her bedroom from the ages of 17 to 22.

Thanks for coming," he says, trying to stir the audience. It will be a night of art -- but exactly how, or what kind of art, no one is certain.

Of all the indie-ish things over which I've waxed rhapsodic over the years, I mean it when I say that The BQE , Sufjan Stevens ' experimental short chronicling the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, is totally brilliant.

Movie soundtrack The BQE is the latest string to the musiciana TMs bow. "I actually don't like soundtracks," says Sufjan Stevens.

Sufjan Stevens first announced in 2003 that he planned to record an album for each of the nation's 50 states.

Washington, D.C., act Le Loup's first record, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly , was fairly dark-clouded. Recorded by primary band member Sam Simkoff direct to the built-in microphone on his MacBook, the album boasted a grand theatrical sweep way out of proportion to such humble origins, its dramatic, ...

Someone-and I'm glad it won't be me-will write a book about the Brooklyn indie-rock scene in the next five years.