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Folky Sufjan is back, baby! Following last year’s electronics-heavy The Ascension and this year’s instrumental ambient-leaning Convocations, Sufjan Stevens is returning to his acoustic guitar roots with A Beginner’s Mind, a full-length collaboration with Los Angeles musician (and Asthmatic Kitty signee) Angelo De Augustine.
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Lil' Wayne: Science Sez: Lil Wayne Makes You Stupid, Sufjan and Radiohead Make You Smart
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Virgil Griffith is a 25-year-old grad student at Caltech, and in his spare time he makes elaborate charts comparing people's SAT scores to their tastes in music and books. And you know what that means: Caltech grad students have way too much spare time.That's the main thing I've learned from Music That Makes You Dumb, Griffith's latest viral in...
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Sufjan Stevens: Clogs/Bell Orchestre With The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Sufjan Stevens & My Brightest Diamond @ BAM, Brooklyn 2/26/09
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A few weeks ago rumors swirled about some Very Special Secret Guests slated to appear at last night's Shuffle Mode special at BAM. So you know, see above photo. The night's lineup was already expansively staffed, with Clogs (which features the National's Bryce Dessner) and Bell Orchestre (helmed by Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry and Sarah Neuf...
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Sufjan Stevens: Photos: Bell Orchestre/Clogs [ft. Sufjan Stevens and Shara Worden] [New York; NY; 02/26/09]
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Photos by Kathryn Yu; Above: Sufjan Stevens and Shara WordenIndie rock and classical made beautiful music together last night in Brooklyn, as Clogs and Bell Orchestre joined the Brooklyn Philharmonic for "Shuffle Mode", a collaborative concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House. Sufjan Stevens emerged from his secret la...
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Flight of the Conchords: The 'Gum Drop LXXIV: Hear New Fol Chen Remixed By Rafter, Win A Guitar Courtesy Of Flight Of The Conchords
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From Sufjan Stevens covering Castanets to Shara Worden helping out DM Stith, Asthmatic Kitty acts love in-house collaborations. In this week's Drop, San Diego-based Rafter Roberts joins the party with a remix of AK labelmates Fol Chen's "No Wedding Cake." (The original appears on Fol Chen's Pale Fire-referencing Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune'...
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Sufjan Stevens: New Sufjan Stevens - "You Are The Blood"
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Today's Dark Was The Night track comes to us from a guy named Sufjan Stevens. It's a cover of the Castanets' "You Are The Blood," originally on Ray & rotating Co's 2004 album Cathedral (keeping it in the Asthmatic Kitty family, see). For his updated take, Stevens replaces the original's minimal gothic atmospherics with crazed keyboarding, ca...
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