Chicago Tribune — St. Vincent: Annie Clark’s 2011 date in Chicago following the release of her “Strange Mercy” album was marred by some technical issues that muted her world-class guitar playing. Here’s hoping this time her shredding talents come through lo... more info
Detroit Free Press — A serious, cerebral musician with enough of a pop sensibility to record a tune for the latest Muppets movie soundtrack, Andrew Bird is a special talent who sings, whistles, plays violin and writes songs with equal dexterity. more info
LargeHeartedBoy — Redeye Chicago interviews singer-songwriter Andrew Bird. You have so many passionate fans, but the people who don’t go for the whistling have a lot of animosity toward that. Why do you think that stirs up such heated emotions in people?... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — by Dominick Mastrangelo For the better part of 10 minutes Friday night, at his first of two NYC shows, Andrew Bird, he the all-world whistler/musical alchemist, said not a word. Before he was joined on stage by the rest of... more info
KEXP Seattle — If you’ve seen Chicago songwriter Andrew Bird perform over the past fifteen or so years, you might have seen how intricately can combines loops of guitar, violin, vocals and whistling (he’s in fact a champion whistler!). For his recent session li... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Montreal's Patrick Watson is opening for Andrew Bird on his current tour which hits NYC Friday night (5/4) at Beacon Theatre. (Tift Merrit is opening the Saturday 5/5 show at the same venue.) If you can't make the Friday... more info
Chorus.fm — Head to the replies to watch *Andrew Bird* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/andrewbird) perform "Eyeoneye" and "Give It Away" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. His wonderful new album Break It Yourself is now out on Mom + Pop Records (http://www.momandpo... more info
Topix — "This peculiar incantation, I'm sure you've heard it before," Andrew Bird sings on "Desperation Breeds ...," the first song on Break It Yourself, his sixth solo album. more info
Guardian Music — Spotify today launches a new feature enabling us to embed songs, albums and playlists directly on to our pages. Help us try it out and join our writers in recommending some tunesAre you on Spotify? If you are, from today you'll be able to listen to a... more info