Bryce Dessner

Sufjan/Dessners collaborator James McAlister talks about how Boards of Canada, Brian Eno/Harold Budd, Oneohtrix Point Never, Rival Consoles, My Bloody Valentine, and others influenced his new ambient solo album...

‘Impermanence/Disintegration‘ was made with the Australian String Quartet and features a version of ANOHNI's “Another World.“

”Singing a song with Taylor Swift is like dancing with Gene Kelly,” Matt Berninger said. ”She made me look good and didn't drop me once.”

Sufjan doesn't return to things so much as he reinvents them and explores new territory in the process. That's what he did on Carrie & Lowell and it's also what he does on the new The Ascension...

It's not really the drastic pivot to indie that it looks like on the surface, but it does find Taylor continuing to progress her sound and take artistic risks eight albums and 14 years into her career.

The National's Aaron Dessner co-wrote or produced 11 of the 16 songs, Justin Vernon co-wrote and sings on one, and the album also features Doveman, Jack Antonoff, and members of Bonny Light Horseman, yMusic, and more...

Listen to new songs by Tkay Maidza/Kari Faux, Lupe Fiasco, Primitive Man, Cults, Land of Talk, Big Thief's Buck Meek, Mike Polizze w/ Kurt Vile, Scritti Politti's Green Gartside, and more...

While we await Sufjan's new album, here are some of our favorite covers he's done over the years.

The National's Bryce Dessner is throwing his annual MusicNOW festival after Homecoming on both nights, with a lineup including Moses Sumney, Aaron Dessner’s Big 37d03d Machine, Leslie Feist, Helado Negro, and more.

Listen to new songs by Burial, Bill Callahan, Marilyn Manson, The Who, Drake, Rod Wave, SASAMI, Stormzy (ft. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy), St. Vincent (Jlin remix), and more.