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Sufjan Stevens: Run Rabbit Run + The BQE (CD/DVD)

by Jayson Harsin

[20.Nov.09] :. Two wonderfully orchestral, conceptual albums: Osso re-arranging Sufjan, the other Sufjan re-arranging the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Caution: May require ritlin.

 

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Lowell Brams - Music for Insomnia (new album / MP3)

by Tyler Gould

[5.Oct.09] :. Lowell Brams Music for Insomnia (Asthmatic Kitty) Releasing: 8 December Sufjan Stevens has been busy lately, debuting new music and giving old projects a resplendent release, and here he is again...

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New sounds, visions on classical DVDs

by David Patrick Stearns [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[30.Sep.09] :. Some classical music questions never die, chief among them: how to translate this strictly audio art, whose power and mystery comes from its invisibility, for the DVD age? The great orchestras of...

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New Sufjan Stevens? New Sufjan Stevens. (Live at Castaways) (tour dates / video)

by Tyler Gould

[25.Sep.09] :. There was a time a few years ago when Sufjan Stevens, if he gerrymandered a district in such a way as to include music fans of a certain indie persuasion, could have made a successful run for...

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Sufjan Stevens - The BQE (new album / DVD / MP3 / video)

by Tyler Gould

[16.Sep.09] :. Sufjan Stevens The BQE (Asthmatic Kitty) Releasing: 20 October Sufjan Stevens’ Brooklyn-Queens Expressway-inspired multimedia performance, The BQE, a pastiche of film, music, and...

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Verse-Chorus-Verse: the innocence mission

by PC Muñoz

[8.Sep.09] :. Pop Heroism, One Song at a Time

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Happy-Go-Plucking

by Juli Thanki

[12.Jan.09] :. Steve Martin, Sufjan Stevens, and Kermit the Frog all know it and you should, too: the banjo is hands-down the coolest instrument out there.

 

Various Artists: A Tribute to Joni Mitchell

by Christian John Wikane

[27.Apr.07] :. Björk, Elvis Costello, Sufjan Stevens, Prince and more pay tribute to Joni Mitchell.

 

Various Artists: Danielson - A Family Movie [DVD]

by Jennifer Kelly

[18.Apr.07] :. This paints a picture of an ideal Christianity, the sort where people really do love one another, and where music is just another way to express appreciation for a loving god.

 

Sufjan Stevens

by Matthew Perry

[27.Sep.06] :. 5am, coffee, and Sufjan Stevens...

 

Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche

by Michael Keefe

[10.Jul.06] :. Sufjan Stevens's warmed-up leftovers are more creative, engaging, sophisticated, beautiful, and simply better than what most other musical acts have to offer with their A-list material.

 

Sufjan Stevens

by Tyler Wilcox

[22.Aug.05] :. Resplendent in his blue and orange 'Illinoisemakers' cheerleading outfit, Sufjan found it hard to summon the spirit for one of his many cheers. It was hard to blame him...

 
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Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

by Michael Metivier

[1.Jul.05] :. A big enough album to support a senior thesis' worth of commentary/analysis/appreciation, the latest installment of Stevens' 50 States project is worth every minute of your time.

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Sufjan Stevens: Seven Swans

by Justin Cober-Lake

[10.Mar.04] :. What can you expect when an indie-pop, avant-garde-folk, electronica-producing multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter strips down his sound after recording the first in a series of 50 albums (one...

 

Sufjan Stevens

by Devon Powers

[3.Feb.04] :. Postmodernism has jacked it all up. In its wake, the cultural zeitgeist of irony has become so prevalent and requisite that plain old earnestness ceases to make sense anymore. Or maybe...