DrownedInSound — Another wonderful edition of this week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Bowie, Blake, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Dios, Max Richter, Andrew Bird...and, of course, a fair few more. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Micachu and the Shapes and Wilco's Glenn Kotche will also contribute to double album of Congotronics covers and remixes ... but there's no sign of BjörkAnimal Collective, Micachu and the Shapes and Wilco's Glenn Kotche are among those who will cover... more info

DrownedInSound — Multi-talented musical maestro Andrew Bird is to release another album this year. I say another and not "new" because it isn't strictly true - as it has already been released, as part of the deluxe edition of last year's album Noble Beast (via Pitchf... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dominick Mastrangelo, words by Rachel Kowal For Andrew Bird, touring with a handful of over-sized gramophone speakers is nothing new, but at last night's show, he worked with artist Ian Schneller to create "a forest floor of horns"... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Andrew Bird - Oh No (MP3) DOWNLOAD: John Prine - Long Monday (Live) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Calexico - Two Silver Trees (MP3) DOWNLOAD: A.A. Bondy - I Can See the Pines Are Dancing (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dawes - When My Time... more info

Silent Uproar — Emmett Malloy, director and Brushfire Records co-founder, is planning a Nick Drake documentary project. Malloy says it's "a nice, multilayered piece" consisting of a film, tribute album and book. So far, Jack Johnson, Andrew Bird and Matt Costa have ... more info

NME — The Emmett Malloy project already has artists such as Jack Johnson and Andrew Bird on board more info

I Guess I'm Floating — It's been a long time since we heard anything from the still Hypeworthy Oxford, MS, based trio Young Buffalo, but we're excited to announce a few brand new album tidbits... but first, here's a new live in-studio session video for their song "New Beat... more info

Pitchfork — Photo via Specimen Products Whistling indie star Andrew Bird has teamed up with sculptor and inventor Ian Schneller on a sound sculpture called "Sonic Arboretum", which will come to New York's Guggenheim Museum on August 5. Schneller, formerly of ... more info

Altsounds — Envision a *Sonic Arboretum* -- a symphonic field of poppies, a prairie of sound, a forest floor of hornlings -- all parts of one “ecosystem.” Musician / composer *Andrew Bird* and artist / sculptor / inventor *Ian Schneller* *of ... more info