LargeHeartedBoy — This week I can especially recommend Andrew Bird's Are You Serious, Bleached's Welcome The Worms, Explosions in the Sky's The Wilderness, Laura Gibson's Empire Builder, and Tacocat's Lost Time. The 4-CD box set Music of Morocco: Recorded By Paul... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Entertainment Weekly listed five authors who confronted their critics. NPR Music is streaming the new Andrew Bird album Are You Serious?. eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: Emma Donoghue's Landing Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut's P... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Melville's Marginalia Online collects the books and notes of author Herman Melville. Stream a new Andrew Bird song (that features Fiona Apple). eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: Emma Donoghue's Landing Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonneg... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The entertainment world is focused on the Academy Awards, but the hits just keep on coming. Below, five new music recommendations.  Sarah Neufeld, "The Ridge" (Paper Bag). Best known for her day job as violinist for Arcade Fire, Neufeld has invested... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Andrew Bird at LPR in 2015 (more by Sachyn Mital) Andrew Bird announced earlier this month the release of his new album Are You Serious, which'll be out on April 1 via Loma Vista Recordings. Today he shared the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Andrew Bird announced earlier this month the release of his new album Are You Serious, which'll be out on April 1 via Loma Vista Recordi... Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Banquet's last-ever show, happening at Saint Vitus with Timeshares, The Holy Mess, Save Ends, and Brian Rothenback go on sale today at noon. Tickets for Matthew Logan Vazquez's album release show at Baby's All Right go... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets to the Andrew Bird show at Terminal 5 on April 8 go on BrooklynVegan presale today at noon. Use password ANDREWBILL. You can also get presale tickets to his whole tour through Andrew Bird's website. If you miss... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Andrew Bird at LPR in June (more by Sachyn Mital) Andrew Bird has announced a spring tour that includes two NYC dates: April 7 at Kings Theatre and April 8 at Terminal 5. Tickets for the whole tour are... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Haley Bonar, who released 2014's very good Last War, has another band called Gramma's Boyfriend. With this band, that also features members of Cloak Ox and Andrew Bird's band, Bonar further explores her late-'80s alt-rock leanings, tak... more info