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  Sufjan Stevens and Busdriver Save Christmas, Diss Mel Gibson on 'Ding-a-Ling' Remix

  October 12, 2012 – Early in the week, SPIN alerted you to the impending sing-along road show extravaganza that baroque-pop strangeoid and seasonal holiday sprite Sufjan Stevens is planning in support of his pending Silver and Gold: Songs for Christmas, Volumes 6-10 box set, due out November 13. This morning he shared a goofy track about Jesus called "Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling," which we skipped due to its meatless, demo vibes. …
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  Sufjan Stevens Announces Sing-Along Christmas Tour 'On Ice'

  October 8, 2012 – The holiday season inspires a special kind of madness in baroque-pop busy bee Sufjan Stevens. …
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  Hear Sufjan Stevens' Auto-Tune Coo on Hip-Hop 'Museum Day'

  March 6, 2012 – Sufjan Stevens' The Age of Adz is now a year and a half old, but the era of the Brooklyn singer-songwriter using Auto-Tune on his delicate, nuanced vocals isn't over yet. …
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  ?uestlove Explains How SPIN and Sufjan Inspired the Roots' 'undun'

  November 1, 2011 – On December 6, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon house band, Philadelphia-bred hip-hop vets the Roots, will release undun, their 13th studio release and first concept album. We rang ?uestlove at 30 Rock, where he was hiding out in zoologist Jeff Musial's dressing room between rehearsals, to find out what the heck this album is actually about. Tell us about undun. …
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  Strokes' MSG Gig, Sufjan's New Tunes

  February 17, 2011 – New York City, the Strokes are back. Singer Julian Casablancas has announced that the quintet will play their first show in the Big Apple, and their first-ever concert at Madison Square Garden, on April 1. Tickets go on sale February 25. [Twitter] Check out the music video for "Shell Games," the first single from Conor Oberst's eighth album as Bright Eyes, The People's Key, which dropped earlier this week. …
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  Kanye, Jay-Z, Britney Prep New Singles + More

  January 7, 2011 – Kanye West, Jay-Z, Britney Spears will be dropping heavily anticipated new music next Tuesday. After an unofficial demo leaked this week, Spears will unveil the finished version of "Hold It Against Me," produced by Max Martin and Dr. Luke. "If you think that's good, wait til you hear the real one Tuesday," she posted on her Facebook. Meanwhile, West and Jay-Z will drop the first track from their collaborative album Watch the Throne. …
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  Sufjan Stevens Kicks Off Tour in Montreal

  October 13, 2010 – When your most famous song is a self-critical elegy for a serial killer, there is no "business as usual." And as Sufjan Stevens opened his tour in Montreal Tuesday night, business was extraterrestrial. The indie-folk poet laureate of Brooklyn brought his lavishly melodic voice, an 11-piece band with three horns, two drummers, two keyboards, and two backup singers in Ace Frehleyette outfits, and an utterly uncorked flair for the orchest …
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  Sufjan Stevens, 'The Age of Adz' (Asthmatic Kitty)

  October 2, 2010 – With an overstuffed body of work that includes an orchestral meditation on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a self-incriminating song about John Wayne Gacy, and two albums from a proposed set of 50 dedicated to each of the United States, Sufjan Stevens is not a man whose artistic audacity comes as a surprise. …
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  Hear It: Sufjan Stevens' Experimental 'Age of Adz'

  September 27, 2010 – It's been five years since the prolific Sufjan Stevens released his breakthrough album Illinoise, and the singer-songwriter will return with his first new album, The Age of Adz, next week, but you can get an early listen of the album below. …
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  Sufjan Stevens Announces New Album

  August 26, 2010 – After dropping a surprise EP last week called All Delighted People (available for stream and download here), Sufjan Stevens announced today that The Age of Adz, his first full-length release in five years (and ninth overall), will drop October 12 via Asthmatic Kitty Records. The Age of Adz (pronounced "odds") is inspired by the apocalyptic art of Royal Robertson-a Louisiana-based sign designer who suffered from schizophrenia and illust …
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