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Adorable, baseball-capped yupster and indie-rock money printing machine Sufjan Stevens has been awarded a commission at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 25th annual “Next Wave Festival,” which starts in October. The composition is titled “The BQE,” and it will focus on the whimsical secret history of the expressway, an almost-forgotten story about how penny candy saved the life of President Taft, the great diphtheria scare of 1919, the origin of the phrase “street urchins,” Mae West’s genital deformities, and how the English bulldog came to be imported to America.* Another rocker stepping on the high art stage at BAM is Erik Sanko of the band Skeleton Key. If you don’t remember them, they sounded like Primus but they had a guy who played trashcans and empty bottles. Come to think of it, that might be why you don’t remember them.
Dance, and More, in Brooklyn Festival [NYT]
* Note: We’re just guessing here.
I can’t believe you got to almost 11 A.M. without making an ILM reference.
Also, Skeleton Key were the shit.
Skeleton Key sound abour as much like Primus as Sufjan does. Just sayin.
I can’t believe you got to almost 11 A.M. without making an ILM reference.
Kudos?
You gave a Sufjan-related tidbit to Idolator before Pitchfork?! Scott is going to bleed out of his eyeballs screaming at you.
Skeleton Key were indeed the shit. Fantastic Spikes is a ripping album with nary a duff track and a true major label anomaly. And the original line-up with the found-percussion player was just astounding live. Respect.
I can’t wait until this kid fades into obscurity. Please be soon.
Skeleton Key sounded exactly nothing like Primus. They signed with a major (Capitol, right?) during the signing frenzy of the 90s and were lost in the shuffle. That’s why no one’s heard anything. One of the dudes helped formed Enon for Enon’s best record, Believo. Good stuff all around.