Sufjan Stevens

Royal Ballet to perform Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, with music by Sufjan Stevens

Director Kevin O’Hare announces staging of NYCB choreographer Peck’s 2014 piece, as well as new works by Akram Khan and Cathy Marston

Lyndsey Winship

02, Apr, 2025 @5:00 AM

Illinoise review – brilliant story of loss, grief and reconciliation

Dreamlike logic and exceptional choreography make this wordless interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinois album a deserving winner of a Tony award

Sarah Crompton

23, Jun, 2024 @9:00 AM

Spunk Records goes out on a high: ‘Like a mixtape from your coolest friend’

After 25 years and almost 700 albums, the tastemaker who brought Belle and Sebastian and Arcade Fire to Australia are shutting up shop

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

28, May, 2024 @3:00 PM

‘A silent film of dance underscored by an album’: inside the audacious Sufjan Stevens musical

With Illinoise Justin Peck has transformed the artist’s 2005 album into an ambitious and eye-opening modern dance show like nothing else on Broadway

Osman Can Yerebakan

29, Apr, 2024 @9:08 AM

New York City Ballet’s Justin Peck: ‘Trump’s win changed the whole arc of the piece’

Ahead of a London show, the choreographer talks about his new Sufjan Stevens musical, community in dance, and how election results can affect his moves

Lyndsey Winship

23, Feb, 2024 @2:00 PM

Blank space: how Taylor Swift – and an aching sense of loss – dominated music in 2023

Away from Swift’s joyous, record-breaking successes, the year’s most acclaimed albums were concerned with death and absence

Alexis Petridis

22, Dec, 2023 @5:00 AM

‘A reminder that life has to be lived’: the lyrics that got us through 2023

A new Youth Music survey said that 93% of young people use lyrics as a therapeutic tool for mental health. Our writers share the lines they kept close this year

Ella Creamer, Elle Hunt , Tim Jonze, Lucy Knight, Rebecca Liu, Sasha Mistlin, Laura Snapes and Imogen Tilden

30, Nov, 2023 @10:16 AM

Sufjan Stevens: Javelin review – US indie folk hero hits every target

The singer-songwriter’s 10th album fuses his acoustic and electronic impulses to stunning effect

Kitty Empire

08, Oct, 2023 @8:00 AM

Sufjan Stevens: Javelin review – the triumphant culmination of an unpredictable career

Deceptively simple songs burst into epic passages and walls of sound, with lyrical twists to match, in a remarkable album released as its creator recovers from an autoimmune condition

Alexis Petridis

05, Oct, 2023 @11:21 AM

Sufjan Stevens ‘learning to walk again’ after autoimmune disease diagnosis

US musician in rehabilitation after contracting potentially life-threatening Guillain-Barré syndrome

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

20, Sep, 2023 @3:12 PM

Do they know it’s Christmas? Why today’s festive pop lacks the crucial chaos element | Emma Garland

Despite annual attempts at toppling Mariah, there hasn’t been a new Christmas classic in nearly a decade. Modern songwriters shoot too classy: history tells us that commotion is the only way

Emma Garland

20, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM

The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!

Whether you fancy a heartwarming carol with Elvis or the story of a yuletide drug dealer from OutKast, there’s a festive album for you in our rundown of the best ever

Alexis Petridis

15, Dec, 2022 @1:52 PM