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...NEWS - Andrew Bird’s Useless Creatures; previously only available with thedeluxe edition of Bird’s 2009 album Noble Beast willrelease asa stand-alone LP and CD for the first time on Fat Possum Recordson October 25. An instrumental companion piece to Noble...
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...just the beginning of a whole new export market for Bird Wines.” Von Terra Enterprises president Andrew von Teichman says the 2008 Bird Sauvignon Blanc and 2008 Big Barrel Pinot Noir were chosen following rave reviews by eRobert Parker – a renowned US wine...
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...Lounge on May 11 — had some goals in mind, since but his output is well-known for his impeccable arrangements. To wit, Andrew Bird used Dosh's "First Impossible" as the rhythmic backbone for a song on last year's critically acclaimed "Noble Beast." Dosh has...
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If you want to see Bird perform on May 14 and 15, phone Largo at the Coronet at (310) 855-0350. Priced at $25, tickets will likely sell out, so phone as soon as you can. You should receive a confirmation call by Wednesday, April 28. If not, tickets are
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...Songs of Shel Silverstein 01. Lullabys, Legends and Lies – My Morning Jacket 02. The Twistable, Turnable Man Returns – Andrew Bird 03. This Guitar is for Sale – John Prine 04. The Unicorn – Dr. Dog 05. The Winner – Kris Kristofferson 06. Queen of the Silver...
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Whistling is often viewed as a novelty in pop music. Yet, the few pop songs that dare to employ the technique are some of the most memorable of the last 40 years. Whistling can accentuate hummable tunes like "Walk Like an Egyptian." Or it can prove
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Associated Content
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My Favorite 20 Songs of 2009
20. "Nobody" by Kate Earl - With a little bit of an 80's edge to it, and a good amount of soul, this makes for a good little pop song overall.
19. "Young Adult Friction" by The Pains of Being Young at Heart - A rock song
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Surrounded by stained glass windows, wooden beams and long pews full of fans, Andrew Bird limped onstage at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in downtown Chicago on Monday night. Yes, limped, which he later attributed to banging his heel on a piece of
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Spinner.com
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[MP3] Andrew Bird - Think About Your Troubles
Commissioning an entire cover album of Harry Nilsson's cult-classic The Point was a fantastic idea. Mad props to Amano Recordings for enlisting the likes of Dawn Landes, DeVotchKa, and Nada Surf. As if you
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i guess i'm floating
http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/2009/12/thursdays-and-covers.html
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One of my favorite My Morning Jacket tours was when Andrew Bird came along as support and did a few songs with the band every show (my other fave, when MMJ supported Doves).
Quiet and sort of dreamy, Andrew was fun to get to know, and I still laugh
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Louisville Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/vel14/2009/12/song-for-day-sovay.html
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Andrew Bird is keeping busy, or so reports the BBC 6. All whilst on a lengthy tour, Bird is finding time to score a film, create an art installation, and cover Kermit the Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”
The film in question is titled Norman. It’s
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OH NO THEY DIDN'T
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/41111818.html
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Our apologies for missing Monday and Tuesday. Better late than never, here's your abbreviated music agenda.
WEDNESDAY
>> Monsters of indie pop Andrew Bird and St. Vincent are in town tonight for a long since sold out show at the 9:30 Club. To those
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DCist
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Comedian Margaret Cho is gearing up to release a musical comedy album in 2010 and the actress, who is currently starring in "Drop Dead Diva" on Lifetime, said she will perform some of the songs tonight at The Show at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in
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Southern CA Press-Enterprise
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Los Angeles has much love for Andrew Bird for him to stay away from us for too long. Andrew Bird is returning to Southern California with a show at USC's Bovard Auditorium on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 in support of his most recent album Noble
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till riding high on widespread praise for his stunning, nearly year-old breakthrough album, "Noble Beast," virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter extraordinaire Andrew Bird brings his lauded one-man live show to Higher Ground on
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Barre Montpelier Times-Argus
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20091023/FEATURES02/910230307/1011/FEATURES02
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Main Blog Page Older Post » Andrew Bird Announces Church Gigs by Meg Ruddick Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird will step out of rock clubs and into a different kind of venue for a handful of shows this winter. The chamber-pop singer is scheduled to
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/10/andrew_bird_announces_church_g.html?ft=1&f=15709577
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Can you hear that? That's the sound of a violin, a glockenspiel, and a thousand indie kids sighing simultaneously. Make way, for the Bird is triumphantly entering the city, mounted atop a donkey and proclaiming the Word of today's new wave of music! I'
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The Cowl
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In addition to being an awe-inspiring one-man band during live performances, Chicago multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is also perhaps one of the only artists around to sing about sweet breads and nonsensical words without coming off as a novelty act.
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Spinner.com
http://www.spinner.com/2009/10/20/andrew-bird-duets-with-st-vincent-in-ohio/
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Thao Nguyen just bought some new underwear, but she still needs to do laundry. “I don’t like to wear underwear if I haven’t washed it first, you know?” she says. “Even if it just came from the store, it didn’t come off another person—just the chemicals
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Pate Magazine
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/10/catching-up-with-thao-nguyen.html
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10/15/2009
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Andrew Bird Deluxe Vinyl Reissue was a top story for this week. Here it is again: (PR) Originally released in 2001, the third and final album from Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, The Swimming Hour, will be available October 20th on vinyl
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Her alter ego may have plenty of hipster, too-cool-for-school fans, but behind the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter St. Vincent is Annie Clark, a charmingly unassuming young woman who conducts phone interviews from her mom's mini-van.
Clark's
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Charleston City Paper
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/st-vincent-embraces-the-excitement/Content?oid=1422663
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Andrew Bird, Weather Systems
An Andrew Bird album that doesn't fall in the "best" category? It's hard for me to believe too. I bought Weather Systems while in a bit of a listening funk—wanting something new but not wanting anything in particular. So my
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Pretty Goes with Pretty
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Andrew Bird is a true music man, combining his distinct vocals and whistling with the violin.
Pale Young Gentlemen get the show started at the Overture.
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The Badger Herald
http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2009/09/20/forward_music_festiv.php
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You guys and girls may well be going cock-a-hoop for this collaboration and you'd be perfectly within your rights to. The thought of Annie Clark a.k.a St. Vincent and the Birdman a.k.a Andrew Bird getting it together musically is enough to bring at
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OH NO THEY DIDN'T
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/39361476.html
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You guys and girls may well be going cock-a-hoop for this collaboration and you'd be perfectly within your rights to. The thought of Annie Clark a.k.a St. Vincent and the Birdman a.k.a Andrew Bird getting it together musically is enough to bring at
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Drowned in Sound
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Andrew Bird is part of Edinburgh's Edge festival - a musical accompaniment to the Fringe
Andrew Bird is renowned for his jaw-dropping live shows.
The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist alternates between vocals, violin, guitar and glockenspiel - with
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BBC News
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Why should jazz have all the fun? Pop and indie artists too seldom throw their creative weight into the art
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We're halfway through a great year in music, and here's what I found to be the best of the best. There are still some great releases in store for the rest of the year, including a few of my favorite artists, A Fine Frenzy and Mindy Smith, so we'll
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Comics and More
http://comics-and-more.blogspot.com/2009/08/mid-year-report-music.html
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post for the HuffPo about the Wanderlust Festival: a three day music festival and yoga retreat in Lake Tahoe with featured artists including Michael Franti, Andrew Bird, Jenny Lewis, John Friend and Shiva Rea. When I first
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Huffington Post
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“I am truly touched,” said a barefoot Andrew Bird, bashfully
thanking the audience that had come to see his show for singing him
a warm rendition of "Happy Birthday." Only Bird knows if it was his
special day that brought out a particularly emotional
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Billboard
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All it took was a one-off 'Happy Birthday!' salute from a fan at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre Friday night to get the whole crowd going. It was somewhere in between Andrew Bird's live renditions of 'Fiery Crash,' off 2007's 'Armchair Apocrypha,' and 2005'
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Spinner.com
http://www.spinner.com/2009/07/12/andrew-bird-celebrates-his-birthday-at-the-greek-theater/
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Andrew Bird is still going strong at it charming audiences with his latest album, Noble Beast. If you caught Andrew Bird's show at the Orpheum this year or at Largo last year then you know you're in for a treat. He'll be playing at the Greek Theatre
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Indie rockers Ra Ra Riot [ tickets ] will divide their summer touring plans between a US headlining run and opening gigs for Andrew Bird and Death Cab for Cutie.
The roadwork begins with a solo appearance July 8 in Interlochen, MI, followed by a round
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Andrew Bird’s music seems to veil itself behind a vast, velvety drape of scales, keys and chords (both major and minor), toes just barely peeking from below the covering like the prodigious progeny of melodious madmen playing hide-and-seek in an opera
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NorthJersey.com
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It's about 8 p.m. on Sunday night, and I am waiting to shoot Phish again, taking this opportunity to start my final Bonnaroo post (unless I get ambitious and do a wrap-up later). Your festival correspondent is very tired, and if given the choice would
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Entertainment Weekly
http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/06/bonnaroo-09-sunday.html?xid=rss-music-Bonnaroo%3A+Bruce+Springsteen+with+Phish
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Joey Kantor points you to some MN artists-made-good whose hometown gigs may have slipped under your radar -- the Mpls-rooted band backing Andrew Bird and MN native jazz chanteuse Erin Bode.
WE ALL KNOW THERE'S MORE TO THE TWIN CITIES MUSIC SCENE THAN
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I'm back with a suntan and an even greater appreciation for the USA, fine sentiments for this Memorial Day. The resort, beaches, and weather were all picturesque but it's the little things - like being able to trust the food and water for example -
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i guess i'm floating
http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/2009/05/mp3-new-andrew-bird-see-enemy.html
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The Chicago-based performer unveiled "Noble Beast," his fifth solo studio effort, in late January. The album peaked at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and sold more 25,000 copies its first week out, more than double what his previous
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LiveDaily
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Scenestar favorite Andrew Bird earlier announced that he will be back in town on July 10th at the Greek Theatre. No word yet on when individual tickets to his show go on sale on Ticketmaster, but there will be a special pre-sale this Tuesday, May 12th,
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By Vadim Rizov[Author's Note: This is Part I in a 3-part series of updates for the year. I will try harder in
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No Control
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Emmy The Great, Noah And The Whale and James Yuill are also added to the bill
Jarvis Cocker will headline the Saturday night (August 22) of this year's Green Man festival.
Cocker, who releases his new solo album 'Further Complications' on May 18,
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Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and the Beastie Boys will make their
Austin City Limits Music Festival debuts as headliners of the eight
edition of the event in Austin's Zilker Park on Oct. 2-4. Kings of
Leon, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Thievery
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Billboard
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by Lauren Harris, photos by Perou | 04.20.2009
Andrew Bird cuts quite a figure. When the 35-year-old takes the stage on the first evening of a two-night engagement at New York’s Hiro Ballroom, he has the appearance of a well-dressed man with a special
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A slim, slightly disheveled figure in a skinny black suit and white socks (no shoes) walked across the stage April 7 at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland, played the violin, sang strange songs in a high tenor and whistled. A packed house, mostly full
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/music/s_620452.html?source=rss&feed=7
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St. Paul, Minn. —
Andrew Bird, a Chicago native, has been charming fans with his loop filled, whistling songwriting since the late '90s.
Finding his beginnings in The Squirrel Nut Zippers and his rock group "A Bowl of Fire," Andrew Bird grew
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The Chicago singer and all-Twin Citian band sounded surprisingly forceful at sold-out State Theatre show.
Having seen Andrew Bird a couple of times in the past (both times as an opening act) I was prepared for his unique style and music. What I … read
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/42876642.html
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Pretty powerful show from Bird and his all-MN band at the State Theatre last night, I thought, as you can read in the full review at www.startribune.com/music. Bird’s the kind of performer I can totally get why some people can’t stand the guy, because
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/poplife/2009/04/12/andrew-bird-co-state-theatre/
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Andrew Bird's abundant eccentricities can be daunting if you don't give his insidious cleverness ample time or latitude to seep in. He's used plenty of pop conceits in the past, along with enticing shards of everything from folk to rock and samba.
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City Pages
http://www.citypages.com/2009-04-08/calendar/andrew-bird
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Andrew Bird will appear on "Austin City Limits" next season.
Andrew Bird hit the "Austin City Limits" studio on Wednesday
evening to tape the second show of the popular concert series' next
season.
Bird, who kicked off his shoes during the
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Billboard
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The first full day of SXSW music has passed and I have the aching feet to prove it. Watching music from 12pm to 1:30am is hard work people, but I do it for you.
The day started at the Austinist party with Garotas Suecas, a band made up a bunch of 19
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Done Waiting
http://www.donewaiting.com/2009/03/19/sxsw-2009-day-1-elvis-perkins-andrew-bird-the-decemberists-again/
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