“Which One Are You?” is a leftover from Sufjan Stevens’s 2009 multimedia project the BQE. The track was not originally included on the project due to legal issues. According to Sufjan, he “could not clear melody w/ ELP publishers. The Endless Enigma of intellectual property. One person’s homage i...

Oh boy. Oh jeez. We can do this, everybody. We can get through this. The fact is this: Sufjan Stevens has just released a mixtape. Of rap songs. About Christmas. It’s called Chopped & Scrooged. It has a Das Racist song on it. And a Kitty Pryde song. And Nicky Da B and Busdriver. John [...]

Sufjan Stevens has already given us some freaky videos for songs from his new Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas EP box set, but the newest, for his way-out version of “Joy To The World” may be the freakiest yet. It pretty much just shows a chattering video-game chipmunk, its image looped and turned kaleidoscopic [...]

Sufjan Stevens dropped 59 songs’ worth of existential Christmas crisis on the world this week in the form of a five-disc collection called Silver & Gold. The sprawling set is Sufjan’s attempt to reconcile the conflict he feels between the sanctity that supposedly defines the holiday and the vapid consumerism that has...

Sufjan Stevens’s holiday-themed EP box set Silver & Gold: Songs For Christmas comes out today, and he’s already made two very, very different videos for songs from the EP: The splattery satire of “Mr. Frosty Man” and the familial warmth of “Silver & Gold.” Now, in the ...