Altsounds — The 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival is proud to announce the addition of Final Fantasy, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Bowerbirds, and Michael Columbia to the Saturday lineup and The Thermals and Killer Whales to the Sunday bill. The Pitchfork Music Festival has... more info

Rawkblog — Live: Azita and Destroyer (pictured at left; photo by David Greenwald) at the Echoplex. Jams: A First Look at St. Vincent’s Actor and new tracks from the Shins (!) and Bowerbirds. News: Broken Social Scene is working on LP4, Spencer Tweedy became a... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Tickets on sale today: 6/20 – YANNICK NOAH – Hiro Ballroom 6/22 – NEW YORK DOLLS – Music Hall of Williamsburg 6/24 – FATBOY SLIM – Terminal 5 6/30 – AS TALL AS LIONS – Bowery Ballroom 7/1 â€... more info

My Old Kentucky — This July 17th at The Vollrath, MOKB Presents...welcomes Bowerbirds and their NC buddies Megafaun!Buy tickets for $7 in advance or $9 at the door.Both bands will release their second albums this year, and both have released first tastes from those al... more info

Rawkblog — “All I want is your eyes,” Bowerbirds frontman Phil Moore sings in the meditative “Northern Lights,” a dusty, cymbal-filled folk song combining chamber-pop intimacy and woodsy, flannel-clad rawness. It’s very much in line with Strand of Oak... more info

Pasta Primavera — Bowerbirds have given us our first glimpse of their new album Upper Air with “Northern Lights”.  This is a slow head nodder of a song that illuminates a room with the powerful vocals of Phil Moore backed by a strummed guitar and faded piano. m... more info

Chorus.fm — Go here (http://www.scjag.com/mp3/do/northernlights.mp3) to download a brand new track titled "Northern Lights" from *Bowerbirds* (http://www.myspace.com/bowerbirds)' upcoming album, Upper Air, and check out the lyrics in the replies. more info

Rolling Stone — The Band: Blank Dogs The Buzz: Joy Division stuck in a tape deck: New York band crafts weird, warbly new wave songs, spaced-out and singular. Listen If: You’re not looking for the post-punk revival, but the post-punk reconstruction, where elements ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Bowerbirds - Northern Lights (MP3) Bowerbirds @ Mercury Lounge (more by Chris La Putt) NORTHERN LIGHTS LYRICS: I don't need, from you, a waterfall of careless praise, and I don't need a trophy for all the games I've played.... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Phil Moore (guitar, lead vocals) and Beth Tacular (accordion, keys, vocals) are Bowerdbirds, a Raligh, NC Americana duo. They have finished recording their sophomore album. Upper Air will be released on July 7th (July 6th in the UK) on Dead Oceans.... more info