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In retrospect, the entire idea of a Sufjan Stevens Broadway musical feels both far-fetched and inevitable. Last year, director/choreographer Justin Peck and playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Illinoise, an adaptation of Stevens’ 2005 classic Illinois, opened in Chicago. Last month, Illinoise came to New York. It’s currently running at the St. James Theatre, and it’s nominated for four Tonys, including Best Musical. Now, there’s an original cast recording on the way, and we get to hear two of its songs.
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submitted by Nick Jan 3rd 2013 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
“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 [...]
submitted by Nick Nov 21st 2012 06:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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 ...


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