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.: chromewaves.net v7.5: Noah & The Whale and Robert Francis at The Horseshoe in Toronto
Stereogum: Is Sufjan Done With The 50 States Project?
Pitchfork: Latest News: Sufjan Stevens Calls the 50 States Album Project "Such a Joke"
| RT @pastemagazine Sufjan Stevens: On the Road to Find Out :: Music :: Features :: Paste http://bit.ly/3TAnIm 36 hours ago |
| a great read http://bit.ly/1pn8tq 9 days ago |
| Sufjan calls 50 states album "such a joke" http://bit.ly/3TAnIm (via @pastemagazine ) 11 days ago |
Noah & The Whale and Robert Francis at The Horseshoe in Toronto
.: chromewaves.net v7.5 —
... Fires tell BBC they’re working on album number two and are targeting a May release date. Expect to hear some of the new material when they play the Phoenix on December 2.
JAM, The Toronto Star and The Boston Herald interview The Swell Season, who’ve just released a new video and are at Massey Hall tonight.
Video: The Swell Season – “Low Rising”
Paste talks to Sufjan Stevens, whom they credit with ...
Is Sufjan Done With The 50 States Project?
Stereogum —
... 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 recently told us he won't rule out another state LP, though, so keep dreaming. ...
Sufjan Stevens Calls the 50 States Album Project "Such a Joke"
Pitchfork: Latest News —
Photo by Denny Renshaw It has now been more than four years since Sufjan Stevens released Illinois, the second album in his proposed 50 States project. Sufjan had claimed that he was going to release an album in honor of every one of our United States. But at this rate, unless he picked up the pace drastically, he wasn't likely to ever finish the project, unless he lived to be about 200.
In a recent interview with Paste, Stevens admits that the entire ambitious concept was "such a joke." ...
Sufjan Stevens’ 50 states project is ’such a joke’
ZME Music —
... Speaking about Project U.S.A. with Paste Magazine, Sufjan said: “the whole premise was such a joke,” he says now, “and I think maybe I took it too seriously. I started to feel like I was becoming a cliché of myself.” Well, at least the man REALLY believed he could pull this off. Any five year old with basic math knowledge could tell you its almost impossible to pull off - not if you want quality, that is. If Sufjan was to release, let’s say, an album a year, which is pretty often at is, he would still need 50 years to reach his goal. I’m still ...



