In the wake of celebrating its one-year anniversary last month, Littlefield is beginning to host some pretty decent artists. Take Sunday night’s show at the Gowanus venue. Only a modest crowd made it ...

On December 9th, we [Asthmatic Kitty] will proudly unveil the very first release from DM Stith: the EP, Curtain Speech. We signed David Stith after listening to just two demo songs. Yes, they were ...

Even though DM Stith has the compositional instincts of a seasoned pro, he manages to maintain the playful spontaneity of a beginner. Hearing his gentle voice and intricate choral arrangements, it ...

If you listen to just one of the songs on this DM Stith session (our suggestion is that you don’t do such a thing) make it, “Pigs.” It’s a song from his last full-length record, “Heavy Ghost,” ...

On his latest release, Heavy Ghost, graphic-design MFA candidate DM Stith layered music the way some designers layer InDesign files: densely. Each song is made of thick, looping collages of strings, ...

The term baroque pop, or chamber pop, as it is more commonly known nowadays, invokes the thought of legends like the Beach Boys and Phil Spector. Those artists helped invent the tag by infusing ...

The son of a band director and percussionist, David Michael Stith grew up surrounded by music. But he only recently began to write his own songs... The son of a band director and percussionist, David ...

As live music goes, Tuesday night's tUnE-yArDs show at the Bishop proved to be my biggest surprise of the year so far. I never go to a show with the intention to slate it, but I must confess that I ...

It's an offer that can be refused, but not easily: When reps from the independent label Asthmatic Kitty heard two songs that David Michael Stith had worked up as a hobby, they took a leap that was ...

DM Stith is so hot right now. The critics loved the Indiana musician's 2009 debut album, "Heavy Ghost." The Onion's A.V. Club gave the CD a perfect score of 100 and raved: "Stith's debut is nothing ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...