By: Staff – Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Bird has released his timely new single, “Capital Crimes”. Watch the video, directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin below. “I wrote Capital Crimes more than a year ago about capital punishment,” Bird explains. “For a while they were giving IQ tests to death row inmates. If you scored below 70 … Continue reading
Photos by: Meghan Breedlove – Day three of Forecastle Festival 2019 took place on July 14th at Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky, and featured performances by folk-rock band The Avett Brothers, who are expected to release their newest album, Closer Than Together, on October 4th, 2019, which will follow up their 2016 Grammy-nominated album, True Sadness, … Continue reading
Photos by: Kevin Tosh – Folk-Rock singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, who released his eleventh album, Echolocations: River, on October 6th, 2017 via Wegawam Music, which was produced by Adam Samuel Goldman (Bedroom Walls, Fol Chen, Simone White), performed at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle last night (Aug. 19th) with Brooklyn-based bluegrass band Punch Brothers, who released their … Continue reading
Photos by: Brigid Gallagher – Indie Folk singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, who released his newest album, Are You Serious, on April 1st, 2016 via Loma Vista, which featured collaborations with Fiona Apple and Blake Mills, performed at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago last night.
By: Lucy Sky – B est known for his astounding storytelling abilities, Andrew Bird recently released a new album that has propelled him into a new category of American songwriters. Are You Serious is a powerful trip through Bird and his wife’s struggle with a life-threatening illness, their first born child and their beautiful love story. … Continue reading
By: Staff – Andrew Bird will release his new album, Are You Serious, on April 1st via Loma Vista Recordings. Produced by Tony Berg (Beck, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, At the Drive-In), the album propels Bird into a new category of American songwriters. It’s his most direct lyrically to date with key contributions from Fiona Apple and Blake Mills. Listen … Continue reading
Photos by: Scott Penner – Day three of the 20th edition of Ottawa Bluesfest 2014 featured performances by Grammy Award-winning pop artist Lady Gaga, who is expected to release a collaborative album with pop legend Tony Bennett in September called Cheek to Cheek, Chicago-based indie rock artist Andrew Bird, who released his eighth album, Things Are … Continue reading
By: Chris D’Alessandro – Chicago-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird created an experience Thursday night that you couldn’t help but feel apart of as he took the stage to support his latest album Break It Yourself. His opening act, Canadian folk singer-songwriter Basia Bulat, took the stage in what she described as her first hometown show in … Continue reading
By: Curtis Sindrey – In an industry where perception is everything and there are more commercial pop stars than needed, folk-rock darling Andrew Bird maintains an open and honest image that is refreshing in a transparency-daft society. Bird rejects the idea of having a “persona,” and instead maintains a forthcoming personality, even more so than … Continue reading