SaY What: New Sufjan song, The Whigs, Grand Archives
Click the photo to get a Sufjan Stevens MPfree for a new song. Photo by Joe Lencioni
A few stories you may have missed, but probably shouldn’t have.
Sufjan video and MP3 of new song. You probably saw the SaY story about Sufjan Steven’s tour from today. Well, while we’re talking about Sufjan, hop over to the I Guess I’m Floating blog to see an awesome video with a new track. There is also an MP3 with the song, so you really gotta check it out. Check out the original post (and thanks to Matt Jordan for reposting, that’s where I found it).
Speaking of free and awesome MP3s, get the Grand Archives new one. They just released “Keep in Mind Frankenstein.” This story offers how voice/guitar, Mat Brooke, was entirely unhappy with the original recordings, saying “it sounded kind of like guys who don’t really play rock music trying to rock out.” Read more and get the MPfree.
And God said, let there be The Whigs. For 28 days, and 28 nights, which equates to 28 whole days, there shall be free tickets to The Whigs shows. Southern rock patrons saw this, and saw that it was awesome, so they rocked, and said, “Sweet.” In all reality, this is an awesome thing to do to promote your band, and it’s going to help get The Whigs some deserved attention before the release of their third album. Click here to find out how to get free tickets and see the tour info.
Cryptacize tour with Sufjan kicked off (free MP3)
Cryptacize will head on after Sufjan Stevens packs it up in October. Photo by Denny Renshaw
Los Angeles’ Cryptacize started its tour with Sufjan Stevens this week. Kicking off from Philadelphia, the group has a long fall ahead. All of the shows with Sufjan Stevens shows have been sold out, so don’t get your hopes up, unless you’re into scalping.
On Oct. 7, Sufjan Stevens will pack it in after his last show, but Cryptacize will go on. On Oct. 10, the group will “trade in” Sufjan for another set of Brooklyn-based musicians: The Fiery Furnaces. Together, along with Dent May, they will “tour from Hoboken (Jersey not Georgia) to Los Angeles in November, with a little Canada tucked in there for good measure,” according to a news release.
Cryptacize has said in a blog post that this coast-to-coast tour, and possible at all, at least for a while.
[MPfree, tour info, click more]
Sufjan Stevens releases taste of art project
As if we all didn’t already know Sufjan Stevens was a little more strange than the rest of us, he is proving it with a little taste of his upcoming multimedia project, “The BQE,”which will be released on Oct. 20.
If you hit play and watch for 30 seconds and decide you’re bored, just click over a minute and a half or so for the real action. The hula-hoops are replaced by tires – they are round too – and some are big, some are little, some fast, some slow. Yeah it’s weird and not so much action.
Thus far, the work seems kind of like what you might see at an art show. Once you get to the multimedia, you always get to that one student who has a busted TV playing a video of them vomiting nails or eating bolts in a bowl of cereal. It’s supposed to mean something, but you just don’t know what, and that’s kind of like Steven’s videos thus far.
[Read more about project, click more]
Sufjan tickets on sale on Saturday & MP3
Photo by Denny Renshaw
Get ready to get “giddy,” as Sufjan Stevens and Cryptacize tickets are on sale soon.
On Saturday, concertgoers can pickup tickets at Asthmatic Kitty Records’ Web site.
The concert was the idea of Stevens and Cryptacize, according to their record label, which made them overloaded with “giddiness.”
In an effort to fight those good-for-nothin’ scalpers, they will only be selling two tickets to each customer. Tickets will not be mailed.
[Free MP3, click more]
SaY What: More Reznor, Sufjan and awesome
My God, how good can one album be? That’s pretty much what I said yesterday when I first listened to Portugal. The Man’s newest album. Click here for a short review.
Sufjan Stevens is so effing weird. Just check out his multimedia production, “The BQE,” and be sure not to forget: It comes with a comic book about the ladies who are hoola-hopping in his video. For more on the comic and production, click here.
Reznor back in news, but only for lack of news. Trent Reznor cannot stay out of the news lately. This time, he only deactivated his Twitter. So it seems that for a lack of update, we all have to talk about him. Check out the story on SaY.
Sufjan Stevens releasing multimedia set
THE BQE- A Film By Sufjan Stevens from Asthmatic Kitty
Sufjan Stevens is releasing a comic book.
Of course, it comes with a lot of other cool stuff, but still, a comic book. Even better, the comic book is about hoola-hoopers, and rightly titled, “Hooper Heroes.”
Stevens announced Tuesday that he was releasing his multimedia project, “The BQE,”on Oct. 20. It’s been two years since the original work began.
Sufjan Steven’s album converted to strings
Pantouf?
Three facts came to be, and an old Sufjan Steven’s album had to be remade - somewhere in Detroit, Mich., is a rabbit named Pantouf, water dragons enjoy grapes, and in 2001 Asthmatic Kitty Records released an album from Steven’s based on the Chinese Zodiac called, “Enjoy Your Rabbit.”
“These disparate facts have aligned in the form of a new Sufjan-related release,” Asthmatic Kitty Records said on their Web site.
Sufjan is allowing his 2001 album, “Enjoy Your Rabbit,” to be re-arranged for strings by composers Michael Atkinson, Olivier Manchon, Maxim Moston, Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, and Gabriel Kahane.
[Stream Sufjan Steven's song, and rest of story, click here]
BLOG: Sufjan Stevens national anthem MP3
Photo by Joe Lencioni
It’s the day after the Fourth (or, uh, the fifth) and you don’t have to get back to work just yet.
So there’s no more funnel cakes, free concerts or beer stands on every corner, and you might be a little sad. But it’s OK, Sufjan Stevens is here to comfort.
Enjoy this beautiful version of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” while uploading your pictures to your MyFace so your friends can see. And if you have a favorite story from the Fourth of July, e-mail them in. SaY wants to hear your musical endeavors.
Sufjan Stevens - The Star-Spangled Banner
Sufjan Stevens - The Star-Spangled Banner MP3
Photo by Joe Lencioni
So there’s no more funnel cakes, free concerts or beer stands on every corner, and you might be a little sad. But it’s OK, Sufjan Stevens is here to comfort.
Enjoy this beautiful version of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” while uploading your pictures to your MyFace so your friends can see. And if you have a favorite story from teh
