Tag: Sufjan Stevens

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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Around the turn of the seventies, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad was the place to be as a hub of industrial development meant to furnish the needs of a thriving independent state, a pioneering educational centre conceived along Bauhaus lines which emphasised learning by doing and drew such luminaries as John Cage, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Kahn and...

In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about 'The Lonely Death of George Bell', a 72-year-old New Yorker who passed away sequestered inside of his Jackson Heights apartment, his body 'crumpled up on the mottled carpet' after going undiscovered for almost one week. A hoarder, when...