Sufjan Stevens is a big deal in our house. Illinoise, his last album, is one heck of a masterpiece. And now according to Brooklyn Vegan by way of The Gothamist, I hear that Sufjan is going to celebrate the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

He will be performing a special series of shows at BAM this November at the Next Wave Festival titled “The BQE” and described as “a symphonic and cinematic exploration of one of New York’s least celebrated monuments”. In what sounds like one of he more innovative concert concepts we’ve heard in quite a while, the show will combine Sufjan live, playing both old and new material, with a live orchestra and video projections displaying a “virtual road trip.” Gotta admit, this looks pretty cool.

As evidenced by many of the songs on his Illinois and Michigan “50 states” albums, few are better at finding beauty in the intricacies of everyday urban blight quite like Suf. This should be a real trea