411 Mania — Pixies offer up a new release, The Magnetic Fields offer up a new album, Yoko, Sean and Julian Lennon offer up an old release, Sufjan Stevens offers up a retraction, Tom Waits tweets, AC/DC fans fight back, Sublime legally break up, Aerosmith technic... more info

Culture Bully — Michigan was relatively straightforward when compared to its much ballyhooed follow up, Illinois, but the album packs quite a punch. more info

NME — Musician admits project was result of him becoming a 'cliché' more info

Chorus.fm — Don't hold your breath (http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/11/sufjan-stevens-50-states-project-was-such-a-joke.html) for *Sufjan Stevens' (http://myspace.com/sufjanstevens)* 50 States Project. Submitted by oncedarkness more info

Allmusic Blog — Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois is the best album of the 2000s, according to a recent list issued by Paste Magazine. Bright Eyes, Radiohead, Kid A, Arcade Fire, and Wilco also occupy the top five. [PasteMagazine.com] Chris Brown has unveiled the futuristi... more info

Rollo & Grady — Montreal-based producer Tor’s Illinoize is by far the smoothest use of mainstream samples on an album since Amplive reworked Radiohead’s In Rainbows. Tor sampled tracks from Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 LP Illinoise, as well as 3 of his other albums, A... more info

Rollo & Grady — 1. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois 2. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 3. Arcade Fire: Funeral 4. Radiohead: Kid A 5. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning 6. The White Stripes: Elephant 7. Gillian Welch: Time (the Revelator) 8. OutKast: Stanko... more info

Silent Uproar — According to Asthmatic Kitty, Sufjan Stevens will introduce five select showings on the current film tour for The BQE. Stevens will not perform, as those duties are left to Osso and DM Stith. [asthmatickitty.com] more info

Rollo & Grady — Amoeba Records – Hollywood 1.) Where the Wild Things Are – Soundtrack 2.) Flaming Lips – Embryonic 3.) Logos – Atlas Sound 4.) Fashawn – Boy Meets World 5.) Kings of Convenience – Declaration of Dependence 6.) Jay Z – Blueprint 3 7.) Fl... more info

Guardian Music — When Sufjan Stevens was asked to write a symphony for New York, he turned to a hated freeway for inspiration. The musician tells Andrew Purcell whyThe Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a miserable stretch of road. The BQE, as New ­ Yorkers call it, ha... more info