The Good: Bird’s optimism shines through from the first note until the last on My Finest Work Yet, a conscious choice by the artist. “There is a certain optimism to this record … it’s pretty ‘up’ ...

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Andrew Bird sings, "it's an uncivil war bloodless for now / and the poets they explode like bombs." Watch Andrew Bird peer into our distracted... There's new music from Andrew Bird. The creative ...

Andrew Bird makes a bold declaration with the title of his new album, but it might be accurate. Bringing together facets of his past releases with this new album's well-defined musicality and a ...

Beloved virtuosic indie-pop musician Andrew Bird has just shared a new track titled “Capital Crimes.” It’s a rhythmic-leaning song, featuring Bird’s signature instrumental layering and spells of ...

At the turn of the century, only Spoon’s Britt Daniel could match Andrew Wegman Bird for sloganeering. While Daniel fired off dispatches from rarified dirtbags and guttersnipes, Bird dove into his own ...

Andrew Bird is a violin virtuoso on his own, but the indie-folk musician broke a musical threshold with a full string section around him when he played with the Colorado Symphony at Boettcher Concert ...

With all this talk of Final Fantasy vs. Andrew Bird, I thought now would be a good time to post this picture of Andrew at this year’s Bonnaroo festival. “ANDREW BIRD might just have been the most ...

On his last album, Are You Serious, the always inventive Andrew Bird drew inspiration from monumental moments in his own personal life, including getting married and having a son. And now, on My ...

Andrew Bird began to wonder about Christmas a while ago. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHRISTMAS IN APRIL") ANDREW BIRD: (Singing) Yeah, I'm writing this song about Christmas in April this year. So I'm not ...

"These are just the strongest melodies and the strongest ideas that occurred to me over a three to four year period, distilled." That's the great violinist, lyricist and singer Andrew Bird on the ...

All kinds of ingredients go into the stone soup that makes up Andrew Bird. There’s acoustic old-time of a vaguely Appalachian bent, classical violin that comes out of Bird’s conservatory years, ...