Sufjan Stevens stopped by The Guardian to praise jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott. Scott sings in a youthful soprano, and finds unusual phrasings and emphases inside every song (Stevens talked about this in…   Read Story »

Ben + Vesper are a married couple in Northern NJ. They have kids. They also write that they "have almost exactly the same hair color in the right light and definitely both have curlz in any light."…   Read Story »

Perez Hilton is holding auditions for his new boy band reality show, and comedian Joe Mande is a lock with his sick version of "For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless in Ypsilanti (Silly…   Read Story »

The Avalanche's "The Perpetual Self, Or 'What Would Saul Alinsky Do?'" brings the joy in the trailer for the year-in-the-life-of-four-infants documentary Babies. Cute, yes, but a lot funnier if you…   Read Story »

I recently sat down with Sufjan Stevens at the Diner on 9th Avenue in Manhattan to talk about the release of The BQE CD/DVD for a piece in Art In America and Interview. We touched on the new project,…   Read Story »

In an interview with Paste Stevens said "the whole premise [of the project] was such a joke," a joke maybe he took too seriously: "I started to feel like I was becoming a cliché of myself." He…   Read Story »

The decade recounting started with Pitchfork handing top honors to Kid A and Uncut lusting after Jack White. Now it's Paste's turn to list their favorite albums of the '00s and, as you might expect,…   Read Story »

Or, as Stevens puts it, "I'm trying to dissuade any kind of conceptual framework and just write music, love songs, pop songs, and just forget all that conceptual mess..." Learn more in Vish Khanna's…   Read Story »

While he makes it clear he's not retiring, Stevens does say he's "sick of [his] conceptual ideas" and wondering what his songs mean in light of his "creative" and "existential" battle. One he feels…   Read Story »

Stevens is "star struck," but manages a Q&A with current tour/band-mate Nedelle Torrisi -- "her exotic Italian pout, her '80s housewife attire" -- covering Judas Priest, Lebanon, pimped-out tour…   Read Story »