Back in 2007, in lieu of his standard Christmastime music drop, Sufjan Stevens held the Xmas Song Xchange Contest in which he invited people to submit their own original holiday tunes. He selected musician Alec Duffy's "Every Day Is Christmas" as the winner and wrote a brand-new song, "Lonely Man Of Winter," as a response…

The track was previously only shared with one fan as part of the musician's "Xmas Song Xchange Contest"Sufjan StevensA rare Sufjan Stevens song will finally be released, it has been confirmed. ‘Lonely Man Of Winter’ was written in 2007 but was only shared with one fan as part of the musician’s “Xmas Song X...

Angelo De Augustine has been quietly kicking out gorgeous folk-pop songs for years, evolving from a careful student of Elliott Smith to a songwriter with a voice of his own. There was also more than a little Sufjan Stevens in Augustine's early work, and somewhere along the line Sufjan himself took a liking to the…

All of the collection's 42 tracks will be pressed in time for the holidays Sufjan Stevens to reissue Songs For Christmas on vinyl for first timeSufjan Stevens has announced plans to reissue his 2006 ‘Songs for Christmas’ collection on Vinyl for the first time. The artist’s longtime record label Asthmatic Kitty revealed the plans to put out...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts of Sciences announced 928 new members today, illustrating a push for greater diversity in the organization. Marking record highs for the Academy, 49 percent of the new inductees this year are female and 38 percent are people of color, as Variety notes. Several prominent musicians were inducted this year,&#8...