Music For Ants — It’s time for another edition of Commercial Watch, where I highlight the songs that play during those annoying parts that you never watch in between Parks and Recreation and The Walking Dead. The commercials are embedded below with MP3s included. ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Dominick Mastrangelo I escaped the madness of CMJ on Friday hopping the Metro-North to catch Andrew Bird at the charming Tarrytown Music Hall. The bustle of a small town on a Friday night, a tiny street fair and... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Ryan Adams' Ashes & Fire and Bjork's Biophilia are the week's big music releases, and both are worthwhile additions to your music collection. I can also strongly recommend Andrew Bird's soundtrack for the film Norman (which also contains contribution... more info

Stereogum — “Night Sky” is a song that Andre Bird’s been playing live for a little while, but it got the formal studio treatment for the official soundtrack to the upcoming independent film Norman. Hear it, and the rest of the OST, at Facebook. (via Twenty... more info

Altsounds — The *Sonic Arboretum* is a collaboration between composer / violinist* Andrew Bird* and artist / sculptor / inventor *Ian Schneller**of Specimen Products*. It is a sonic installation consisting of a “forest” of plant-shaped audio ... more info

Pop Candy — I first heard about Norman through its soundtrack, which features original music by Andrew Bird and other tunes from The Blow (with Richard Swift), ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by David Andrako The 2011 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival concluded on Sunday night (9/18) with two shows at the Bell House. "A Special Food-Themed Comedy Show For You" was hosted by Eugene Mirman and Leo Allen, with Ron Funches,... more info

Music For Ants — From “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” to “Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard” to basically any song by Andrew Bird, there’s always something about whistling that that makes a track burrow deep inside your brain and stay there. Earlier ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — OK Go shows some Muppet solidarity. The rock quartet contributes a cover of The Muppet Show's theme song to Muppets: The Green Album. A new tribute to the music of the Muppets features contributions from Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket, Weezer a... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Evan Hughes talks to the Brooklyn Paper about his book, Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life. "With the richness of Brooklyn's literary history, I was surprised to find this book didn’t already exist,"... more info