New Orleans Jazz Festival 2013: Day Two - Andrew Bird

New Orleans Jazz Festival 2013: Day Two - Andrew Bird

The short, slender Chicago musician wearing a dark blue blazer and slightly tousled hair began the show with a long, unaccompanied violin solo that hinted at the Cajun fiddlers who’d been on the stage earlier in the day but also to classical and jazz violinists.   read more

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Newport Folk Festival Named Pollstar's Music Festival of the Year

Newport Folk Festival Named Pollstar's Music Festival of the Year

The Newport Folk Festival was named music festival of the year yesterday in the 24th Annual Pollstar Awards....  read more

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Paste mPlayer Issue #73 Is Live!

Paste mPlayer Issue #73 Is Live!

We talked to Amanda Palmer, The Lumineers, Andrew Bird, David Lowery, Dan Deacon, MyNameIsJohnMichael and music-industry vets for a look at what it takes to make it without the machinery of a major label....  read more

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Andrew Bird: Hands Of Glory

Andrew Bird: <i>Hands Of Glory</i>

Assuming the Mayans and your particularly obnoxious Facebook friends were right all along and the world is actually ending on Dec. 21, then no one can say Andrew Bird wasted his last year of life on earth as we know it.   read more

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Andrew Bird Announces Tour Dates, Streams New Album

Andrew Bird Announces Tour Dates, Streams New Album

Andrew Bird is setting out to tour his upcoming album, Hands of Glory, but not in the typical fashion. Bird’s tour will be funded by the crowd through a contest on Songkick, according to Pitchfork....  read more

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Listen to Andrew Bird's "Three White Horses" from Hands of Glory

Listen to Andrew Bird's "Three White Horses" from <i>Hands of Glory</i>

Andrew Bird is set to release his Break it Yourself companion album on Oct. 30 titled Hands of Glory. It is set to include performances from his recent tour in support of his sixth studio album, as well as original compositions and covers of the Carter Family, Alpha Consumer and the Handsome Family....  read more

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Andrew Bird Announces Companion Album for Break It Yourself

Andrew Bird Announces Companion Album for <i>Break It Yourself</i>

Andrew Bird’s tour for Break It Yourself has inspired the musician to make the old new again. While on tour he began to play sets in which he reworked his own album tracks and covered some of country music’s most beloved bands....  read more

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Watch Andrew Bird's Video for "Give It Away"

Watch Andrew Bird's Video for "Give It Away"

Andrew Bird’s new video for the track “Give It Away” features a piñata man at a typical children’s birthday party in suburbia. At first the kids are skeptical—it’s a man, dressed like a piñata. But once the candy starts falling from his sleeve and out of his ear, they are no longer concerned about the peculiar entertainment....  read more

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Andrew Bird Extends U.S. Tour

Andrew Bird Extends U.S. Tour

In support of his recent album Break It Yourself, Andrew Bird has announced additional U.S. tour dates that include a stop at Austin City Limits. The well-received album was produced by Bird himself and released through Mom + Pop Records....  read more

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Watch Andrew Bird's Stop-Motion Video for "Eyeoneye"

Watch Andrew Bird's Stop-Motion Video for "Eyeoneye"

Andrew Bird has created a colorful, stop-motion clip for his latest single, “Eyeoneye.”...  read more

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