“You know when someone really transcends their instrument,” Andrew Bird proclaims, “They’re just a musical creature”. At this stage, it is unclear exactly what Andrew Bird’s instrument is, but he just ...

Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham took part in a public conversation at the Old Capitol Museum while they were in Iowa City for the Infinite Dream Festival. “I think Andrew reached out to me ...

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Even better. On Tuesday, Noise for Now revealed the track list for Tift Merritt’s album initiative Songs for Sex, featuring Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Andrew Bird, and several other stars to ...

More than half a century later, singer-songwriters Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham have remade Buckingham Nicks - song by song, note for note - for a new generation. Like others over the ...

Andrew Bird has a theory about whistling. Roughly speaking, he views it as the most efficient way to extract the music from his imagination. “It’s like sonic vapour escaping,” he says.

Recently figuring on albums by My Morning Jacket, Will Oldham and Candi Staton, Bird has been releasing eclectic solo work of his own for a decade. Embracing swing, rock’n’roll, folk and ...