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...

Sufjan Stevens is no stranger to ambitious numerical concepts-- his 50-state strategy, like Howard Dean's, has generated no small amount of disbelief-- but the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter has tended to keep even his epic songs to around the 7-minute mark. Then there was last year's half-hour BQE project. Stevens' new cover of Asthmatic Kitt...

Brooklyn-via-Buffalo songwriter DM Stith entered the Asthmatic Kitty stable via the design work on Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, albums and the vocals and piano he contributed to her Bring Me The Workhorse. He released the Curtain Speech EP earlier this month (12/9). Stith's full-length debut Heavy Ghost, which includes no songs from t...

Brooklyn-via-Buffalo songwriter DM Stith entered the Asthmatic Kitty stable via the design work on Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, albums and the vocals and piano he contributed to her Bring Me The Workhorse. He released the Curtain Speech EP earlier this month (12/9). Stith's full-length debut Heavy Ghost, which includes no songs from t...

Sufjan Stevens and his pals at Sounds Familyre like to celebrate the season with new Christmas music. A new track from the second volume of SF's A Familyre Christmas series, up today at their blog, is also featured on Songs for Christmas Volume 8: Astral Inter Planet Space Captain Christmas Infinity Voyage, the latest small-run privately distrib...