LargeHeartedBoy — Drowned in Sound interviews singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. DiS: I read an interview with Jonathan Franzen recently, someone who’s obviously also attracted to large-scale projects, and he said something about how after every time he's completed a... more info

DrownedInSound — It is 9am Eastern Standard Time when DiS calls Sufjan Stevens at home in Brooklyn and he is wide-awake and affable, even as a temperamental connection threatens to derail proceedings. The last-minute, primitive nature of The Age of Adz, outsider art,... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The new Sufjan Stevens album, The Age of Adz is out tomorrow in a week filled with wonderful releases. The long awaited Antony and the Johnsons' Swanlights and Belle and Sebastian's Write About Love are also in stores this... more info

DrownedInSound — Although not an unqualified success, The Age of Adz is an audacious, eminently enjoyable offering. Peer into it long enough and a decisive, highly personal work reveals itself, from a singer whose deep reserves of curiosity and invention show little ... more info

Guardian Music — (Asthmatic Kitty)Since 2005's Illinoise, Sufjan Stevens has become more composer/arranger than singer-songwriter, guesting on albums and hymning the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. His latest LP was inspired not by a US road, but by paranoiac spiritualis... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Sufjan Stevens talks to the Irish Times about his new album, The Age of Adz (out October 12th). The Globe and Mail reviews the album. BBC News interviews Jonathan Franzen about his new novel, Freedom. The Guardian lists 10 of... more info

The Telegraph — Sufjan Stevens's The Age of Adze is exhilarating and innovative. Rating: * * * * more info

Guardian Music — First up on this week's podcast, Ben Beaumont-Thomas speaks to Cee Lo Green, a rapper and singer who got his start with Atlanta's Goodie Mob before going on to form Gnarls Barkley with Danger Mouse. Green explains why he's like a kung-fu master, and ... more info

Guardian Music — (Asthmatic Kitty)Last year, Sufjan Stevens announced that he was abandoning his loudly trumpeted project to write and release an album about each of America's 50 states. He'd managed a grand total of two. It was hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy.... more info

Detroit Free Press — Sufjan Stevens: 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Royal Oak Music Theatre, $30. Sold out. Torche: with High on Fire and Kylesa, 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Majestic Theatre, $15. Alejandro Escovedo: with the Sensitive Boys, 8 p.m. Oct. 14. The Magic Bag, $20. more info