Video: Sufjan Stevens & Friends at Sydney Opera House

Back in April, we caught an excellent early look at a new planetarium-themed piece from Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, and Nico Muhly, performed live in Amsterdam with the New Trombone Collective and Navarra String Quartet. Their composition — which contains a song for each planet in addition to the moon and the sun, aptly titled “Planetarium” — has since made it’s way further throughout the world, more recently touching down in Australia for a set at the famed Sydney Opera House.

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Tony Nominations: Once, Newsies, More

We don’t delve into musical theater too often around here, but today’s a big exception. Not only will Glen Hansard — one of our favorite singer-songwriters around — be getting his due yet again for the songs he wrote in the 2007 romantic indie film Once, but Broadway’s take on our childhood’s favorite musical film, … Read more

Hatfields and McCoys Soundtrack Tracklist

In one of the more interesting moves of his career over the past few years, Kevin Costner has written and performed almost the entire soundtrack to a new series on the infamous Hatfield–McCoy feud of the late-19th century between rival families in West Virginia and Kentucky. The movie itself, which co-stars Bill Paxton along with Costner, … Read more