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

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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

KEXP Seattle — Talk about a strong start to the week. We start off Monday night with one of the biggest acts to come to Seattle this year, Radiohead, performing to a sold out Key Arena. Also in town, Band of Skulls and We Are Augustines are at Neptune Theatre, whil... more info