WELCOME2007 WINNERS2006 WinnersCOMMENTS Glad you guys could join us for this, the presentation of the 25th annual Gummy Awards! We promise we'll keep this thing under three hours (har). It's time for us to honor those characters in the... CONTINUE READING 2006 GUMMY AWARD WINNERS»
Posted on December 21, 2006 in , , (106 comments)
Tags: Arctic Monkeys | Bono | BRIT Awards | Cat Power | Feist | Ryan Adams | Sufjan Stevens | The Hold Steady | Top Chef | U2
When we swung down to Austin for ACL this summer, we made a stop off at a taping of an episode of the 32nd season of Austin City Limits, the public television, live music institution (originally aired 11/4). But this... CONTINUE READING EVER HEARD OF THIS GUY?»
Posted on November 9, 2006 (8 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
While most of you are getting ready to be slutty nurses, or slutty vampires, or slutty Kele Okerekes, we have egg nog and tinsel on our minds. And so does Sufjan! There are so many Xmas records on tap for... CONTINUE READING XMAS MUSIC BUYER'S GUIDE»
Posted on October 31, 2006 in (15 comments)
Tags: Lindsay Lohan | Sufjan Stevens
During our daily 'Tube troll for videos of our hero, we came across this scary Soof-tracked PSA. New? Old? We don't know. But one thing's for sure ... this lady ruined our favorite Swans song. Someone send a link to... CONTINUE READING SAY NO! TO C!GARETTES!»
Posted on October 30, 2006 (4 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
Nice shirt. (Pic by Nick.) Celebs spotted at last night's show include Alyssa Milano, Danny DeVito, Kirsten Dunst, Toni Collette, and The Kid Who Played George Michael On Arrested Development. Which means we so have an ice breaker for Coachella... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS @ WILTERN, LA 10/9/06»
Posted on October 10, 2006 in (45 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
Stereogum-snapper Adam headed to Town Hall on Friday where Sufjan Stevens kicked off a three-night residency, showing off some new tunes and some fancy wings. After My Brightest Diamond's opening set, Mr. Indie Rock Hottie 2005 and his backing band,... CONTINUE READING NEW SUFJAN STEVENS - "HER MAJESTY'S SNOWBIRD" (AND TOWN HALL PICS)»
Posted on October 2, 2006 (26 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
We know this is old news, but for the five of you who haven't read it yet ... hilarious:August 7th, 2006 Mash-up in the house, y'all! Some bedroom producer from Norway who calls himself Calvin Johnsven just sent me this... CONTINUE READING THE WORLD'S WORST MP3 BLOG WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS»
Posted on September 20, 2006 (19 comments)
Tags: Interpol | Morrissey | Sufjan Stevens | The Killers | The Smiths
Gotta make this short 'cause we're waiting to board our flight. (Congratulations! We have 36 channels of DirecTV programming!) Got off to a slow start on Sunday. "There's a red eye the size of Laredo heading right at us," some... CONTINUE READING AUSTIN CITY LIMITS: DAY THREE»
Posted on September 18, 2006 in , (21 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Ben Kweller | Sufjan Stevens | The White Stripes
Via Asthmatic Kitty:As some of you may or may not know, for the past few years, as a holiday tradition, Sufjan has embarked on an extraordinary experiment to record an annual Christmas EP.We know.It started in 2001, the year of... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN SAYS, "GET BEHIND ME, SANTA!"»
Posted on September 4, 2006 (39 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
But first you have to talk shit about the Dresden Dolls, Streets or Sufjan. Posted Monday on Mr. Folds's MySpace blog:speaking of neediness in music or lack thereof... amanda of the dresden dolls, my new favorite band of all time,... CONTINUE READING BEN FOLDS WILL DRAW A DICK ON YOUR WALL»
Posted on August 30, 2006 (10 comments)
Tags: Ben Folds | Sufjan Stevens | The Dresden Dolls | The Streets
If we donated $5,000, Bookeaters host John Hodgman promised the sold out Beacon crowd, Sufjan Stevens and David Byrne would perform together at the end of the night! Together for the first time! Break out your wallets! Twenty dollars bought... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS, DAVID BYRNE DUET FOR $5,000»
Posted on August 23, 2006 (33 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Sufjan Stevens | The Long Winters
I much prefer Rappers Delight Club, but Ikon the Verbal Hologram and Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind at least get points for sampling "Dumb I Sound" from A Sun Came. This is from Jedi Mind Tricks' Servants In Heavan, Kings... CONTINUE READING JEDI MIND TRICKS SAMPLE SUFJAN STEVENS»
Posted on August 18, 2006 (4 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
Remember Sufjan Vs Kanye? (The mash-up, not the boxing match...) Two Faced John McCartney - "Zombies Walk!!" (MP3) Well, this is a hell of a lot ... cuter. I just discovered Rappers Delight Club via Pitchfork, but Sneak A Move... CONTINUE READING LIL' RAPPERS FEEL THE ILLINOISE»
Posted on July 28, 2006 in (3 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
You people are nuts! We're flattered. OK, maybe we'll make t-shirts. Stay tuned. In the meantime wear this. (Via Boing Boing.)... CONTINUE READING PERHAPS SUFJAN WAS A POOR PASSWORD»
Posted on July 24, 2006 (9 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
If you visited Stereogum on Thursday night/Friday morning, you saw this: ... CONTINUE READING WE'VE BEEN HAD»
Posted on July 22, 2006 in (74 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens | Yo La Tengo
"I don't know why I'm contacting you about this," Nathan writes Stereogum. "It's my group (one man group) we do Bobby McFerrin styled covers of indie rock songs." Um ... awesome! Let's have a listen: indieblockedappella.com. Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire,... CONTINUE READING INDIE ROCK ACAPPELLA»
Posted on July 20, 2006 (29 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens | The Decemberists
Doveman interviews Sufman for Salon.com:THOMAS BARLETT: Why so many versions of "Chicago"? What is it particularly about that song that it needed so many incarnations? SUFJAN STEVENS: It's just a pop song. You know how sometimes there'll be this great... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN ADMITS HE'S FULL OF SHJIT»
Posted on July 13, 2006 (46 comments)
Tags: Doveman | Sufjan Stevens
Must ... get ... tickets ... Revenge Of The Book Eaters Beacon Theater, NYC 8/23 Sufjan Stevens David Byrne Jon Stewart John Roderick Dave Eggers Sarah Vowell John Hodgman + Special Guests It's the first in a six concert series... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS, DAVID BYRNE, JON STEWART ROCK FOR LITERACY»
Posted on July 12, 2006 (15 comments)
Tags: David Byrne | Death Cab For Cutie | Jenny Lewis | Patton Oswalt | Sufjan Stevens | The Long Winters | The Mountain Goats
The trailer for Little Miss Sunshine, starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, and Toni Collette, has some nice Flaming Lips and Sufjan Stevens tunes. (We're told Toni is a big Sufjan fan.) Watch here. The film (out 7/26) was directed by... CONTINUE READING LITTLE MISS SUFJAN»
Posted on July 5, 2006 (31 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
Corporate-Casual's crafted some lovely hipster erotica:The other day I made my daily pilgrimage to Cup of Life, the local Free Trade coffee shop that bravely struggles to show these sheep that there are alternatives to the exploitative monster that is... CONTINUE READING "IT SOUNDS DUMB TO SAY IT, BUT HE ACTUALLY GETS ME"»
Posted on June 29, 2006 (21 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
Indie rock's John Philip Sousa talks to Filter.FILTER: Have you found people clamoring for you to write about their state? SUFJAN STEVENS: It happens all the time. What I find most interesting is that my proposition has inspired all kinds... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS PICKS NEXT STATE?»
Posted on June 21, 2006 (29 comments)
Tags: Jon Stewart | Sufjan Stevens
This thing finally works again! Sorry for the lack of heads up, but I couldn't even log into Movable Type to tell ya about Stereogum's slow death on the old server. We're now hosted by Media Temple and expect NO... CONTINUE READING HOW DO I WORK THIS?»
Posted on March 9, 2005 (24 comments)
Tags: Annie | Arcade Fire | Brendan Benson | Fred Durst | Lindsay Lohan | M. Ward | Snowden | Sufjan Stevens | The O.C.
As usual I was unable to narrow down my favorite releases of the year to just ten. So here are Stereogum's 14 favorite discs of 2004. To make it easier for myself, I arbitrarily disqualified compilations, reissues, and Brian Wilson.... CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TOP CATORCE OF 2004»
Posted on December 23, 2004 in , (62 comments)
Tags: Air | Aloha | Annie | Arcade Fire | Drive-By Truckers | Dungen | Joanna Newsom | Lambchop | Madvillain | of Montreal | RJD2 | Sufjan Stevens | The Go! Team | Wilco
We're finally done with the rock and roll hangover known as CMJ. For four nights, every cool venue in the city was filled with hipster college kids dying for VICE internships. but Stereogum managed to sneak in to a few... CONTINUE READING CMJ 2004 WRAP-UP»
Posted on October 18, 2004 (20 comments)
Tags: Arcade Fire | CMJ | Sufjan Stevens
Anyone got extra tickets?... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS TONIGHT AT MERCURY»
Posted on August 19, 2004 (7 comments)
Tags: Sufjan Stevens
