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Denison Witmer Signs to Asthmatic Kitty

Denison Witmer is set to make his Asthmatic Kitty debut with his ninth album, titled The Ones Who Wait. A press release for the album said it “is an intimate reflection on the meandering path of life, on family and friendships, on death balanced with new life, on endings and beginnings.” The album will be released on March 6.   read more

Sufjan Stevens' Age of Adz Now Available on Vinyl

Sufjan Stevens’ latest Paste-approved full-length The Age of Adz is now getting the 180-gram vinyl treatment....  read more

Sufjan Stevens' Record Label Denounces Amazon's Bulk Discounting

His latest album is set to drop in October, and Asthmatic Kitty, the label of our Artist of the Decade, Sufjan Stevens, is urging fans to avoid picking up a copy on Amazon....  read more

Download Sufjan Stevens' "I Walked"

Download Sufjan Stevens' "I Walked." Stevens' The Age of Adz will be released Oct. 12 on Asthmatic Kitty....  read more

Sufjan Stevens Announces New Full-Length Album

Last week we brought you the happy news that Sufjan Stevens was streaming his new All Delighted People EP, and now he’s has announced that a new full-length recording is on the way....  read more

Sufjan Stevens/Osso: The BQE/Run Rabbit Run

Sufjan Stevens: The BQE – 92/100 Osso: Run Rabbit Run – 76/100 Stevens remakes the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway — and gets a makeover himself Though we’re nearing the five-year anniversary of his last proper studio album, Sufjan Stevens has stayed active since his landmark Illinois. In November 2007 he debuted The BQE, a multimedia tribute to the seemingly mundane Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that included an orchestra, three simultaneously projected films and live hula hoopers, and that was performed over three nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Ever the perfectionist, Stevens took two years to record and edit this combination...  read more

Lowell Brams: Music for Insomnia

Latest in the series of Asthmatic Kitty founder’s ambient efforts is neither fish nor fowl Lowell Brams’ new experimental disc is a curiosity and a milestone in equal measure. On one hand, it’s hard to imagine that anyone would ever willingly devote multiple spins to a disc containing such “compositions” as willfully weird and jittery opener “Chattering Garden Trolls” or the Metal Machine Music-emulating “Short Circadian Partita,” even as background music for vacuuming on a Saturday afternoon....  read more

Half-Handed Cloud: Cut Me Down & Count My Rings

Song-a-minute songwriter digs into his archive, unearths some gems As a songwriter who made his name constructing grand song puzzles out of miniature interlocking pieces, John Ringhofer is the master of intricately fragmented art pop, with four full-length releases so tightly constructed that individual moments can hardly be extracted without compromising their elaborate song-suite structures. That his short-attention-span musical theater works just as well when pulled out from under the canopy of album-long arcs comes as a revelation on Cut Me Down & Count My Rings, a dazzling 46-song collection drawn from previously released EPs, compilations, cassette singles and vinyl...  read more

Asthmatic Kitty Adds Three Titles to Library Catalog Music Series

Asthmatic Kitty Records is expanding its peculiar Library Catalog Music Series, with instrumental albums meant to soundtrack sleeplessness, memory and carpooling coming later this year....  read more

Sufjan Stevens, The National's Bryce Dessner Contribute to Album for Insomniacs

Sufjan Stevens, who's put his 50 States Project on hold for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, is now creating music about a state of mind....  read more