I decided to ease into my classical adventure with the U.S. premiere of Planetarium, a collaboration between Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, and Bryce Dessner, which was playing this past weekend at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
I want to be the kind of person who awaits the end of the world like a little kid waits for Santa Claus. If you have that kind of hope, then the only thing funny about the apocalypse is the idea that anyone could predict when it might happen.
This week our playlist includes music by Bernard Herrmann & The Symphony Orchestra, Snoop Dogg, Barth, Ron Sexsmith, Wayne Newton, Rogue Wave and more.
After endless months of being mired in gloom and doom, we now find ourselves just a few weeks away from Christmas, struggling to latch onto that spirit of joy, excitement, innocence, magic and hope we had as children.
This week our playlist includes music by John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, The Avett Brothers, Elvis Costello, The Black Eyed Peas and more.
This week our playlist includes music by Cowboy Junkies, Sufjan Stevens, Muse, Judy Garland, Salt 'N' Pepa, Bob Schneider and more.
Someone will object that all this talk about sin ignores the obvious fact that someone like James Holmes is plagued by delusions. No doubt, but so are we all. The stone throwing has already begun.
This week our playlist includes music by Jack White, Bobbie Gentry, Rufus Wainwright, Buddy Guy (& Junior Wells), Red Sovine and more.
Sufjan Stevens, The National's Bryce Dessner and composer Nico Muhly debuted work from their collaborative composition at the MusicNOW Festival in Cin...
Baroque pop musician Sufjan Stevens has once again lent his unique mastery to the world of hip hop. His newest project s/s/s with Son Lux and rapper S...
There's no money to make significant changes to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, The New York Times reports, and it seems the much-maligned roadway wil...
Here's a playlist sent out in hopes the president goes bold with his upcoming jobs speech, and that the federal government that we all employ gets out of the business of assured mutual self-destruction.
I recently spoke with Sufjan Stevens about the Age of Adz concerts, pre-concert Quiet Craft Time, and the prospect of alienating his fans.
In Make, directors Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn tell four distinctive stories of earnest lives lived on the margins of American society.
We all know that "indie" is a ridiculous name for a music genre. And we all know that Valentine's Day is a ridiculous holiday. Somehow, though, when...
There is not a radio station that plays all the music I love. I dream of having my own radio station one day, so I can share the eclectic selection o...
With the absurd distinction between serious and non-serious musics largely eradicated, it's time to take stock of some of the best alternative art songs of 2001-2010.
If an indie songwriter licenses his tune to promote the Christmas company line, is he or she out of line? Let's look at two high-profile examples with which to answer this line of questioning.
Some stereos have been locked in on Christmas music since the clean-up of Thanksgiving dinner. Here at Huffpost Religion, we like to wait a while bef...
Photo: Richard Termine When Antony and the Johnsons took the stage Saturday night at Alice Tully Hall shortly after 7:30pm - which is like 5am in ...
From the high-energy punk of the Thermals, to the ever-evolving complexity of Sufjan Stevens, to the beachy fun of Best Coast, there will be more than enough treats to go around this week.
This week Big Time Rush makes a run for the boy-band crown, Darius Rucker completes his country conversion, Lil Wayne drops a hip-hop bomb from behind bars and Belle & Sebastian make the world safe for pretty pop songs.
The questions ought to be: does this song make us stop? Does this book make us think? Does this art feel like the suffering we know and the hope we hope for anyway?
I forever owe Detroit a huge debt of gratitude, as does anybody who's loved contemporary music this past half century. Before we bailed Detroit out, Detroit bailed us out of a lot of boredom and bad moods.
This week's column includes music from Sufjan Stevens, Bora Yoon, Fats Waller, Hacienda, Langhorne Slim, and The Dils.
