Read the lyrics of Come On! Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens, a layered indie folk song that blends personal insight with state history.

DEADLINE: I think with Illinoise, although it's fictional, there does feel a certain connection to and reflection of real life – Sufjan Stevens ... and the music] come to the brain separately ...

Not even Yes or Magma at their most hubristic could match the ambition of Stevens' conception ... in establishing the general tone is "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!", whose punning title hides ...

"Illinoise" could be called "Metamorphosis," but the songs come from Sufjan Stevens' 2005 concept album ... which read "Come on feel the Illinoise." Beyond "sentimental," the other word to ...

Every indie music lover remembers listening to Sufjan Stevens’ seminal ... the full seven-minute spectacle of “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!”, or the quiet, devastating acoustics of ...

Illinoise, the dance-musical by Justin Peck based on Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album Illinois, has won Best Choreography at tonight’s 2024 Tony Awards. It beat out Here Lies Love’s Annie-B Parson ...

Tonight’s performance of Broadway’s Sufjan Stevens dance musical Illinoise has been canceled due to the death of a backstage company member. The death did not occur at the St. James Theatre ...

Sufjan Stevens's indie folk concept ... Unlike the many jukeboxes that have come before it which combine songs from several eras, "Illinoise" is unique in its embrace of the concept album as ...