This week's new live music

Sufjan Stevens, On tourWhen Sufjan Stevens was last here, his live shows were fantastical affairs with troupes of 50s-style cheerleaders and orchestras wearing butterfly wings. Back then his stock-in-trade was turning the civic histories of unfashionable American states into magical folk-pop songs. However, his 2010 album The Age Of Adz found him feeding his musicians into the shredder, butterfly wings and all, and rearranging their parts in Pro Tools to lend the music an unsettling, hyper-real ...

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