Or: “Cincinnati! Bogart’s Is My Heart! Top Cat’s Is My Mind! MusicNOW Is An Obnoxious Name For A Festival!”

Music Blog and (your SAK correspondent has a special place in his heart for these) alt-weekly spin-off Spill It reports that Sufjan Stevens showed up to play a little new music and show some filmed-in-Hong-Kong Super 8 over the weekend. Grab all the info here (and don’t be afraid to scroll to get what your after).

And if you’ve ever wished there was an indie version of US Weekly, chock full ‘o photos of yr favorite rockers posing for the lens, You Ain’t No Picasso has a wish-fulfilling pic for you of Le Suf and a Grizzly Bear.

Okay, that headline’s just a hypothetical song title from Sufjan Stevens‘ non-existent six-disc box set about the history, people, and government of Australia–but The Suf is currently touring down under, and just because he’s plucking his banjo on the other side of the equator doesn’t make it any less newsworthy.

Aussie blogger Oceans Never Listen has an account of a recent performance at Sydney’s State Theatre here. Sufjan’s set has expanded to include an excerpt from last year’s BQE, and, better still, he’s continuing to perfect epic, jaw dropper The Majesty Snowbird (if we had to guess, we’d say Stevens next record will be about avians, not Alabama) on his current run.

(photo by Kelsie Moore)

If you want some pics of the twee one hula-hooping on his Australian jaunt, as well as photos of both Shara and Annie rockin’ out in the backing band, check with On The Sunny Side.