January 2012
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MusicNOW 2012
On March 30, the final night of this year’s MusicNOW festival in Cincinnati, OH, Sufjan will join Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly in a workshop presentation of a new song cycle (this perhaps?).
Tickets go on sale on Friday, January 27th at 10 am EST.
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“Our relationships are usually about two forces of will not wanting to...”
– Sufjan Stevens (Spin, 2005)
December 2011
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duilleog asked: Do you have a download link to the Illinois iTunes bonus tracks: "The Transfiguration (Home Demo Version)" or "Size Too Small (Live in Brussels)"?
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The Gummy Awards: Your Top 20 Indie Rock Crushes... →
1. Sufjan Stevens 2. Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) 3. James Blake 4. Christopher Owens (Girls) 5. Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) 6. Ryan Gosling (Dead Man’s Bones) 7. Matt Berninger (The National) 8. Anthony Gonzalez (M83) 9. Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) 10. Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys)
Sufjan may not have put out any music this year but he topped the list that really...
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November 2011
27 posts
The Roots – "Redford"/"Possibility"/"Will To... →
On the final track from undun, also titled “Redford,” the band takes Sufjan’s instrumental, and, with some help from Sufjan himself, they turn it into a sprawling four-movement work. We’ve got three of those movements streaming below.
On the first movement, “Redford,” Sufjan plays the song alone on piano. And in the ensuing two movements, Questo, a string quartet, and an avant-garde pianist all...
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“The most amazing show I’ve seen over the past year was Sufjan Stevens’s final...”
– Annie Clark
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“Design”
“Vito’s...
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signofadz asked: "Sad to report but there have never been plans to release a concert film of the Adz tour." that's what asthmatic kitty just told me! I am so disappointed about that. Didn't they tell us that the Prospect Park shows were supposed to be "saved" for posterity. And there were so many cameras on the stage. Just wanted to let you know ...
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Sufjan to Appear on New Roots Album, "undun"
Spin: So who, exactly, is the protagonist Redford Stephens?
?uestlove: Well, the album's name is inspired by the Guess Who song "undun." But we named the character after the Sufjan Stevens song "Redford" from his Michigan record. We imagined Redford as being like Avon Barksdale from The Wire. He's a good guy who could have just gone to college and been a great engineer or something. But he makes a bad decision and pays for it. We tell that story in 10 songs, under 44 minutes. Actually, Sufjan makes an appearance on the album, too.
Spin: Really?
?uestlove: We've always loved the song "Redford" from Michigan. So we close the new album with a cover of "Redford." We stretched it out into this four-part movement. Part 1 is Sufjan at the piano performing it. And then Part 2 is a string quartet that we had interpret it. Part 3 is myself and D.D. Jackson, who is an avant-garde piano player. He's probably one of the most dangerous pianists — I don't know how he doesn't have carpal tunnel now. But he just destroys, literally, destroys the piano. The final movement, which ends the record, is essentially the beginning of the story. But it's the last thing you hear. It's a very powerful piece of work.
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October 2011
14 posts
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dawnkim:
This was the track that Sufjan Stevens...
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New York Sounds - Barbican Theatre, February/March...
Following on from the recent, critically acclaimed, Reverberations: the influence of Steve Reich weekend-marathon, New York Sounds explores a range of exciting music making from the fertile contemporary New York music scene. Featuring International Associate, the New York Philharmonic, Bang on a Can All-Stars and new commissions from Nico Muhly, Owen Pallett, Bryce Dessner and Sufjan Stevens.
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The Last Word: A quick questionnaire with Sufjan... →
1. Three words someone else would use to describe me are fast driver. Fast eater. Fast talker.
2. My greatest professional influence is Pinocchio.
3. My fondest memory is none of your business.
4. The last book I read was Wittgenstein Flies a Kite by Susan G. Sterrett.
5. If I could have dinner with anyone living or dead it would be someone living. The dead don’t make good company.
6. Three...
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"Beyond this Place" to be screened in 3 US cities
owltanager:
From Facebook:
BEYOND THIS PLACE will screen in three U.S. cities in late October / early November. Each of these screenings will be accompanied by musicians Sufjan Stevens and Ray Raposa, who will play the musical score to the film live. Screenings are October 30th at BAM in Brooklyn, NY, November 3rd at the Hollywood Theater in Portland, and November 6th at the Castro Theatre in...
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dbr2 asked: Hi, do you happen to know the members of Illinoisemakers? I know Katrina kerns, Shara Worden were in it but that is all. I started listening to Sufjan after that amazing tour was over with.
September 2011
18 posts
