Sufjan Stevens is the state-hopping singer-songwriter-cum-comic-book artist who's produced a multi-media spectacle (featuring hula-hoopers, no less), all the while repudiating "the white noise of information."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/01/09

Violens are the latest brainchild of Miami-bred Jorge Elbrecht, a 30-year-old artist, singer, and guitarist who is also a member of the popular art and music collective Lansing-Dreiden. On August 17, the year-old  band  gathered at a ground-floor loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to make a video for "Spectator & Pupil"-a lush, dreamy song with careening atmospherics, New Wave harmonies, and a hard, galloping beat.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/28/08