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June 9, 2011
Download: Epstein's Post-Punky Beach Jam "Seashells & Starfish"
Plenty of YIMBY pixels have already been spilled on Roberto Carlos Lange, whose project Helado Negro greeted us two years ago as a breezy summertime treat. His alter-alter-ego Epstein keeps HN's hazy asphalt steam heat, but trades the fluttering guitars for trunk-rattling 808s, and his vulner ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Q&A: Helado Negro's Roberto Carlos Lange on "The Message," Gigantic Floppy Discs, and the Album He's Making with Julianna Barwick
by Andrew Stout First there's the owl; then there's the enormous afro. The sight of the two in close proximity means you've likely entered Roberto Carlos Lange's domain, whether it be through the front door of his Brooklyn home or by hearing one of the dozens of sound sculptures and animated ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Julianna Barwick's Sound-World
Using vocal loops to get back to church, or at least that one tree she loved
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February 10, 2011
Download: Julianna Barwick's Joyfully Narcoleptic "The Magic Place"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Pic by Jody RogacThe last we heard from Brooklyn's Julianna Barwick, back in the early days of YIMBY, she was a relative unknown enchanting us with her home-recorded, digitally released 2009 EP Flor ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
The Reason Why Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Is $3.99 on Amazon Right Now
Behold, the Amazon-pixelated artwork of a man who will stop at nothing to be #1.Many rap fans probably didn't notice a couple weeks ago when Taylor Swift's Speak Now debuted, selling over a million copies in its first week--the fastest sprint to that number since Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, i ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
RHYTHM & SOUL
Sufjan Stevens's tour ends at home
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October 21, 2010
Sufjan Stevens's The Age of Adz Is the #7 Record In the Country Right Now
Hail your new leader, America."We try not to think too much about the Billboard charts," Asthmatic Kitty's Michael Kaufmann told us last week, when we asked him about the label's sales expectations for Sufjan Stevens's newly released Age of Adz. Maybe not, but the label was also straightforwa ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Week in Review: Apollo Kids
In the week one of this blog's authors inspired a short play about juggalo zombies and Lady Gaga, we celebrated by announcing the 2010 Village Voice/Redeye Distribution Day Party, featuring the great Marnie Stern, Hooray For Earth, and a bunch of others, including a wonderful special secret g ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Asthmatic Kitty Walks Us Through the Release of Sufjan Stevens's Age of Adz
About three weeks ago, Asthmatic Kitty, the small independent label that is home to Sufjan Stevens and an assortment of smaller acts, sent out a kind of tortured email. It was directed, in theory, at prospective buyers of Sufjan's then-upcoming, now just-released Age of Adz, and laid out all ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Week in Review: Quarantine the Past
Later, dude. Photo by Rob HarvillaIn the week we threw up our hands and named all seven days after Pavement, we celebrated at the now-reunited and finally in New York band's first show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, pitied the plight of scalpers trying to get rid of their tickets, hung out w ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Take on Amazon, Bootleggers, And You, Maybe
Perhaps you've heard that Brooklyn troubadour Sufjan Stevens has a new album. It comes out October 12th, and has a poetically appropriate name, The Age of Adz, though for some reason he wants to you pronounce that last word as "odds." You can preorder it now, on CD, LP, or MP3, and get a digi ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 27, 2010
Fol Chen
Perhaps you've heard that Brooklyn troubadour Sufjan Stevens has a new album. It comes out October 12th, and has a poetically appropriate name, The Age of Adz, though for some reason he wants to you pronounce that last word as "odds." You can preorder it now, on CD, LP, or MP3, and get a digi ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2010
DM Stith+Inlets+Silje Nes
Perhaps you've heard that Brooklyn troubadour Sufjan Stevens has a new album. It comes out October 12th, and has a poetically appropriate name, The Age of Adz, though for some reason he wants to you pronounce that last word as "odds." You can preorder it now, on CD, LP, or MP3, and get a digi ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2010
DM Stith+Inlets+Silje Nes
Perhaps you've heard that Brooklyn troubadour Sufjan Stevens has a new album. It comes out October 12th, and has a poetically appropriate name, The Age of Adz, though for some reason he wants to you pronounce that last word as "odds." You can preorder it now, on CD, LP, or MP3, and get a digi ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 29, 2009
MYSTERY MAN
Sufjan Stevens aims to surprise
Blogs
September 15, 2009
Yes In My Backyard: Download Helado Negro's "Deja"
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Visual artist and sound sculptor Roberto Carlos Lange, a.k.a. Helado Negro, is a sponge that soaks up nothing but the breeziest sounds. Summertime hip-hop jams, Tropicalia, and '80s New York club b ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Venue Profile: Touring the Sycamore, Brooklyn's Coziest Covert Concert Space
All photos by Sam Horine."This is our neighborhood joint -- we want to make the best of it!" Such is the brightly unpretentious way Jessica Dessner, the show booker for the bar/tiny concert space/flower-shop-by-day The Sycamore, describes the motivation behind the venue (which her architect h ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2009
News Roundup: Surfjan Stevens Announces Intimate Tour, Lollapalooza, Them Crooked Vultures, Mike Seeger Dies
--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2009
Exclusive: Listening to Sufjan's "The Lonely Man of Winter" in Crown Heights
The writer, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy. "You're the first person to show up" said Alec Duffy, as he took my coat. My listening session was in Crown Heights, just off the Franklin 1/2/3 stop. I slipped on the snow twice, went the wrong direction, and landed at his friend Dave Malloy's doorstep 20 ... More >>
Music
December 3, 2008
God Is In Welcome Wagon's Living Room
Modest, familial, faithful folkies multiply in Brooklyn
Voice Choices
March 25, 2008
Wednesday 4:2
Modest, familial, faithful folkies multiply in Brooklyn
Voice Choices
March 25, 2008
Happy Ending Music and Reading Series
Modest, familial, faithful folkies multiply in Brooklyn
Music
October 17, 2006
Oh My Goth!
Born Under the Sign of Satyrn
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January 24, 2006
Dean's List
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Music
October 18, 2005
Christians and Heathens
Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

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