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September 27, 2011
Download: Cat Martino's Swirling, Smoldering, Sufjan-Assisted "Yr Not Alone"
Andre CostantiniCat Martino makes glowing, of-the-moment woozefolk full of ethereal drones and spacey loops, running modern indie-scruff through the 4AD dream machine. Best known as a valued touring musician for Brooklyn luminaries like Sufjan Stevens and YIMBY veteran Sharon Van Etten, Marti ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Arcade Fire Sell Nearly Half A Million Records in 2010, Will Perform at the Grammys
"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Week In Review: The Love and the Wizardry
We are all Jay-Z's children,. Photo by Jori Klein.In the week we told you why you can't hate Kanye West and love My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at the same time, we made similarly bold claims about Girl Talk--ten worst moments on that record, right here--and the Beatles, who along with a c ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Live: Sufjan Stevens Throws A Two-Hour Electro-Prog Dance Party At Beacon Theatre
Lets work on ditching some of these people real soon. Pics by Rob, more below.Sufjan Stevens Beacon Theatre Monday, November 15 He wouldn't be nearly as irritating if he wasn't so good, this guy. As such, he is a whole lot of both. Look at him up there, crooning his hideously overstuffed an ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 3, 2010
RHYTHM & SOUL
Sufjan Stevens's tour ends at home
Blogs
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 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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
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August 20, 2010
Compiling the Most Breathless, Absurd, and Aroused Twitter Reactions to Sufjan Stevens's New All Delighted People EP
Though indie-folk troubadour and fey highwayman Sufjan Stevens isn't for everyone, he is definitely for the Internet: the artist's surprise release of a full EP's worth of music today has left Twitter on its back, sighing in platonic, overwhelming, cuddly satisfaction. As always, we come not to mo ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Week in Review: Jugga-luh-oh
Run Tila, run! Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.In the week one of us went to the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back with what is increasingly looking like Stockholm Syndrome, we witnessed Tila Tequila (and Method Man) battle a pack of angry ICP fans and--shortly after she took her top off--lo ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 27, 2010
Fol Chen
Run Tila, run! Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.In the week one of us went to the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back with what is increasingly looking like Stockholm Syndrome, we witnessed Tila Tequila (and Method Man) battle a pack of angry ICP fans and--shortly after she took her top off--lo ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2010
DM Stith+Inlets+Silje Nes
Run Tila, run! Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.In the week one of us went to the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back with what is increasingly looking like Stockholm Syndrome, we witnessed Tila Tequila (and Method Man) battle a pack of angry ICP fans and--shortly after she took her top off--lo ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Week in Review: Uniformly Awful
In yr face. Photo by Rebecca SmeyneIn the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... More >>
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May 25, 2010
BAM Announces 2010 Next Wave Festival, Plus Fun Fact: Sufjan Stevens Got Paid $147,338 For His 2007 BQE Commission
Another year, another Next Wave Festival: the 2010 edition, BAM announced today, will feature--among many other works--the American premiere of Delusion, "a far-reaching work exploring memory and identity" from new music doyenne Laurie Anderson, Red Hot New Orleans, a Big Easy tribute from ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2010
INDIE POD
Rejoice for Freelance Whales!
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April 6, 2010
Dorian Wood+El-Haru Kuroi
Rejoice for Freelance Whales!
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Tonight! Oh No Ono, Black Lips, Julian Casablancas, And Clogs
Never pass up the opportunity to see a self-proclaimed group of Danish "Internet Warriors" who have specifically branded themselves as human-headed "Lion Fish." That'd be Oh No Ono (to your left), performing their springy, game-show post-punk at Mercury Lounge tonight. Meanwhile, at Bowery Ba ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 9, 2010
Hauschka
Never pass up the opportunity to see a self-proclaimed group of Danish "Internet Warriors" who have specifically branded themselves as human-headed "Lion Fish." That'd be Oh No Ono (to your left), performing their springy, game-show post-punk at Mercury Lounge tonight. Meanwhile, at Bowery Ba ... More >>
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October 9, 2009
Week in Review: The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock
Photo of South Williamsburg's the Woods by Puja PatelIn the week in which everyone went to rock and roll fantasy camp--whether it be the one that takes place inside the Colbert Report studios with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle or the one that takes place on the disco dance floor with Vin ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Live: Sufjan Stevens Soothes An Unsettled Bowery Ballroom
Sufjan Stevens Bowery Ballroom Monday, October 5 Chippy night down at the ol' Bowery. Heading downstairs we pass a heated argument between two hungry patrons and a bouncer defending the club's "all exits are final" policy. The men's bathroom is briefly closed due to unfortunate leakage; "hold it, ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 29, 2009
MYSTERY MAN
Sufjan Stevens aims to surprise
Voice Choices
September 8, 2009
THE PRESENT, TOMORROW
Psychedelic lineup ushers back ATP
Music
September 1, 2009
An Oral History of All Tomorrow's Parties
In honor of next weekend's fete upstate, some wistful reminiscences and trash talk
Voice Choices
August 18, 2009
Helado Negro
In honor of next weekend's fete upstate, some wistful reminiscences and trash talk
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 >>
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July 24, 2009
Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!
Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine. In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
Nico Muhly Takes on the Times, the Word "Precious," and, Uh, Us
Brooklyn Vegan has kindly noted Composer to the Indie Stars Nico Muhly's spirited and pretty much instantaneous riposte to the New York Times' "weirdly mean-spirited" review of late May's Grizzly Bear show. (Ben Ratliff's closing thought: "I left Town Hall grinding my teeth.") Nico, a major player o ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
Wall Street Journal Discovers Sufjan Stevens Christmas Song in June
SOTC's Jessica Suarez bracing against the winter cold Back on one of the colder, more snow-choked days of February, we sent SOTC buddy Jessica Suarez deep in the wilds of Crown Heights to hear a song by Sufjan Stevens that, at the time, only a handful of other people on the planet had heard. A thea ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend
Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>
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May 20, 2009
Interview: St. Vincent on Actor, Onstage Laugh Attacks, and Seizures
The inspirations for Annie Clark's latest album as St. Vincent, Actor, perhaps sum up her darkly doe-eyed charm: hidden porn, guns, self-deceiving lovers, Philip Roth. One of nine children growing up in the Texas flatlands, the Oklahoma-born multi-instrumentalist left Berklee in 2003 to join the P ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 6, 2009
St. Vincent
The inspirations for Annie Clark's latest album as St. Vincent, Actor, perhaps sum up her darkly doe-eyed charm: hidden porn, guns, self-deceiving lovers, Philip Roth. One of nine children growing up in the Texas flatlands, the Oklahoma-born multi-instrumentalist left Berklee in 2003 to join the P ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 22, 2009
GOOD VIBRATIONS
Your favorite compilation is now a live show
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
February 4, 2009
The Metermaids: Illinoise Remixed
NYC rappers find themselves by sampling Sufjan
Voice Choices
September 23, 2008
NO SLEEP ’TIL
Stay up all night for BAM’s biggest bash
Voice Choices
March 25, 2008
Wednesday 4:2
Stay up all night for BAM’s biggest bash
Voice Choices
March 25, 2008
Happy Ending Music and Reading Series
Stay up all night for BAM’s biggest bash
Music
October 30, 2007
The Scrunchie Invasion
BAM's all-night fête flaunts bands, burlesque, and a 'mid-career Lindsay Lohan retrospective'
Music
October 30, 2007
The Fey Highwayman
On Sufjan Stevens's indulgent, hula-hoop-plagued BQE symphony
Music
February 13, 2007
The Unforgettable Fire
Joyously overwrought arena rock often sounds even better in church
Music
July 4, 2006
Prolific Indie Darling Repeats Himself Splendidly
Joyously overwrought arena rock often sounds even better in church
NYC Life
January 31, 2006
Plugged In
Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year
Music
November 15, 2005
Faith, Hope, and Bono
Anthemic Christians range from altar calls to extreme pessimism
Music
October 18, 2005
Christians and Heathens
Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos
Blogs
October 4, 2005
The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Albums Since July
Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos
Music
September 13, 2005
The Hordes of Flatbush
A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust
Music
August 2, 2005
Without a Prayer
Like other religious artists before him, Sufjan Stevens puts his faith in craft
Music
May 4, 2004
Banjoed and Bibled Brooklynite Takes Break From States
Like other religious artists before him, Sufjan Stevens puts his faith in craft
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