Sufjan Stevens has shared the demo for the Carrie & Lowell opener “Death With Dignity” ahead of the 10th anniversary reissue of that 2015 album. The singer-songwriter also paired the acoustic demo with a video featuring original artwork, archival photos, and 8mm film of the album’s titular Carrie Stevens’ mother, …
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Sufjan Stevens dug deep into his archives while reflecting on the anniversary of Carrie & Lowell, his stirring seventh studio album released exactly 10 years ago today. The musician will release an expanded edition of the record on May 30, but his starting point isn’t one of the original 11 …
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Living in the Catskills for six years has made Hannah Cohen an expert at mushroom foraging. In the several acres of woods that surround her mid-Seventies house, she’ll encounter golden oysters, chicken-of-the-woods, indigo milk caps, black trumpets, and maitake (she takes home 30 pounds worth of the latter every year). …
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Charli XCX and Post Malone received an early Christmas present from the Recording Academy Friday when both artists were gifted an additional nomination at the 2025 Grammys. In the latest batch of adjustments to the nominee list, both Charli XCX and Malone were given Best Recording Package nods for serving …
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John Legend has a children’s album on the way, and the singer has revealed the unlikely collaborator he enlisted to produce it: Sufjan Stevens. My Favorite Dream, out Aug. 30, also features appearances by Legend’s wife Chrissy Teigen and their two children Luna and Miles. All three contribute to the …
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Director and choreographer Justin Peck‘s Broadway adaptation of Sufjan Stevens‘ seminal 2005 album Illinoise opens later this month, and today, producers Orin Wolf, Seaview,John Styles, and David Binderand executive producer Nate Koch announced the three vocalists set to help bring Stevens’ music to the theater. Elijah Lyons, Shara Nova, and …
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Broadway audiences will be making noise for Sufjan Stevens‘ Illinoise when the play arrives for its limited engagement beginning in April. The musical — based on Stevens’ 2005 concept album Illinois — will run for 16 weeks under director and choreographer Justin Peck, who crafted its story with Jackie Sibblies …
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Sufjan Stevens has dedicated his just-released new album, Javelin, to his late life partner, Evans Richardson. “This album is dedicated to the light of my life, my beloved partner and best friend, Evans Richardson, who passed away in April,” the singer-songwriter wrote on Instagram. “He was an absolute gem of …
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Sufjan Stevens has revealed that he is relearning how to walk at an acute rehab facility following a recent bout with the autoimmune disorder Guillian-Barre Syndrome. In a rare message to fans, Stevens explained why he wouldn’t be making any promotional appearances or conducting interviews ahead of the October 6th …
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The National have released two new songs, “Alphabet City” and “Space Invader.” The latter arrived with a moody visualizer directed by Noah Sacré and Pauline de Lassus, with animation and drawings by de Lassus. The melancholy, seven-minute track sees frontman Matt Berninger imagining alternate scenarios. “What if I stayed on …
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