07.20.2016
Pitchfork Music Festival: Saturday
While I’m sad to see it go, Pitchfork Music Festival was without a doubt one of my favorite music festival experiences of all time. There wasn’t a band all weekend that I was disappointed by, and I was blown away by multiple bands I hadn’t heard before. With a forecast filled with rain and thunderstorms…
07.13.2016
Five Most Anticipated Acts of Pitchfork Festival: Saturday
Last year was my first ever Pitchfork Festival experience, and let me tell you, it’s something I’ll never forget. The bands, the food, the city, and just the overall vibe of the festival, all come together to make one of my favorite music festivals – period. The Chicago-based music festival boasts phenomenal lineups year after…
07.21.2015
Just Announced: Sufjan Stevens
After a run of somewhat gimmicky releases – the electro 180 turn of The Age of Adz, a second round of Christmas albums, an experimental ode to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway – Sufjan Stevens returned in prime form earlier this year with the stark and devastating Carrie & Lowell, a front runner for album of the year…
04.01.2015
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
Loss can alter a person. Whether it’s reinvention, recollection, or flat-out despair that hits the hardest, the death of a loved one often times has a profound effect on an individual. In the case of Sufjan Stevens, the feelings resulting from his mother’s death in 2012 became the creative fuel for Carrie & Lowell, his…
10.30.2015
Tonight: Sufjan Stevens
It’s rare enough for an artist to produce an album revered as a masterpiece once in their career. And to do it twice is nothing short of remarkable. But that’s exactly the kind of artist Buffalo will welcome to tonight as eclectic singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens will take the stage at the UB’s Center for the Arts. While…
06.19.2014
Mikaela Davis Arranges “Chicago” For Crane Harp Ensemble
A couple years ago, we caught wind of Rochester songtress, Mikaela Davis, and her rendition of Sufjan Steven’s “Casimir Pulaski Day.” The cover was a hit of sorts on Youtube and firmly entrenched the talented harp player on the blog’s radar. The buzz around Davis has been building over the years through cross-country touring and a SXSW…
11.02.2015
Sufjan Stevens at UB’s Center for the Arts (10/30/15)
So we may not have been treated to a very random cover of Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” but we were still undoubtedly treated. Sufjan Stevens, in his long-awaited return to Buffalo this past Friday, delivered one of the most spectacular live performances the city has seen all year. I thought Carrie & Lowell—Stevens’ 2015 full-length written…
02.16.2015
Sufjan Stevens – “No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross”
Sufjan Stevens fans rejoice! Earlier this morning, we were given a taste of the prolific songwriter’s new album, Carrie & Lowell, in the form of the deliciously dark folk morsel “No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross.” It’s been a while since we’ve heard Steven’s folksier side, and this first single returns to those…
