Quantcast

Call for Feature Essays About Any Aspect of Popular Culture, Present or Past

Andrew Bird

Features

Thursday, April 15 2010

People Said It Was Impossible: An Interview with Dosh

Loop-master Martin Dosh is releasing his latest full-length, Tommy, this week. PopMatters talks to Dosh and some of the album's contributors (including Andrew Bird) about his unique creative process and the benefits of collaboration with other artists


Friday, December 18 2009

The Best 60 Albums of 2009

PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet.


Reviews

Friday, January 13 2012

Andrew Bird's 'Sonic Arboretum': 21 December 2011 - Chicago

Never have I felt the vibrations of a violin encompass a room or nor have I been in the middle of a three-dimensional field of sound that arrived at your ears from all directions.


Thursday, October 27 2011

Andrew Bird: 12 October 2011 - Rochester, NY

Dosh and Bird have been collaborating like this for years now, but Bird claims that they are just “scratching the surface”.


Thursday, October 27 2011

Andrew Bird: Norman (Soundtrack)

Andrew Bird takes his talents to the world of film and succeeds as expected.


Monday, August 29 2011

Andrew Bird: 10 August 2011 - Boulder, CO

The beautiful, historic amphitheater is also one of the lesser-known venues in Boulder, though for Bird it overflowed.


Monday, November 29 2010

Andrew Bird: Useless Creatures

Andrew Bird descends into the treacherous depths of experimentalism and emerges with his musical soul intact.


Blogs

Friday, January 8 2010

Andrew Bird: 15.Dec.09 - Chicago

All along Bird was tied up in his art, swaying with each pull of the bow and pluck of a string. In a nearly seamless fashion he added loops to create additional tones and melodies.


Thursday, January 29 2009

Andrew Bird - "Fitz & Dizzyspells" live (video)

Andrew Bird dropped by the David Letterman show Tuesday night to strum his guitar and whistle his way through this track off Noble Beast. Mehan…


Tuesday, September 9 2008

Andrew Bird - 3 September 2008: Chicago, Priztker Pavilion

Words by Chris Catania and pictures by Colleen Catania.


Now on PopMatters
A Far Too Safe... and Strained... 'House' (Short Ends and Leader) [Fri, 9:00 am]
'Safe House' Is Ersatz Edgy (Reviews) [Fri, 8:06 am]
The 10 Greatest Shakespeare Film Adaptations of All Time (Short Ends and Leader) [Fri, 7:50 am]
Unicycle Loves You: Failure (Capsule Reviews) [Fri, 1:00 am]
  1. 'Nebraska': Bruce Springsteen's 'Heart of Darkness' (Columns)
  2. The 10 Greatest Shakespeare Film Adaptations of All Time (Short Ends and Leader)
  3. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 1: From 13Ghosts to Friendly Fires (Features)
  4. The Best Games of 2011 (Features)
  5. Not-So-Central Casting: Kevin Smith and the Birth of the Reality Podcast (Features)
  6. The 10 Greatest Movie Spies Ever (Short Ends and Leader)
  7. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 2: From the Go! Team to the Phoenix Foundation (Features)
  8. Slipped Discs 2011 - Part 3: From Real Estate to Youth Lagoon (Features)
  9. Lana Del Rey: Born to Die (Reviews)
  10. The Top 15 Madonna Singles of All Time (Sound Affects)
  11. Get Off of My Cloud!: 'Collecting' Music in the Digital Age (Features)
  12. Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas (Reviews)
  13. Google and the Production of Curiosity (Marginal Utility)
  14. Carole E. Barrowman’s Authorial Journey to Hollow Earth (Features)
  15. Tower Songs: Townes Van Zandt (Columns)
  16. Black Bananas: Rad Times Xpress IV (Reviews)
  17. The Gay Ole Countryside (Columns)
  18. “Don’t Let Me Fall”: Hip-Hop in the Age of Austerity (Features)
  19. Of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks (Reviews)
  20. Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom (Reviews)
  21. Counterbalance No. 67: John Coltrane’s 'A Love Supreme' (Sound Affects)
  22. A Tale of How Great Journalism Became Revisionist History: Grambling State U Football (Columns)
  23. Chairlift: Something (Reviews)
  24. The 10 Best John Coltrane Solos (Sound Affects)
  25. A Look to the Past, An Insight Into the Present: The Use of Gender in 'Mad Men' (Features)
  26. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "Heart Attack" (Cosmic Kids Remix) (PopMatters Premiere) (Mixed Media)
  27. The Barbaric (and Poetic) Yawp of Shelby Lynne (Notes from the Road)
  28. Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral (Reviews)
  29. After Cease to Exist: The Far-from-Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (Features)
  30. Mitt Romney Can Reside at Today's Proverbial 'Downton Abbey'... Newt Gingrich Cannot (Features)
PM Picks
Music Archive
Announcements

© 1999-2012 PopMatters.com. All rights reserved.
PopMatters.com™ and PopMatters™ are trademarks
of PopMatters Media, Inc.

PopMatters is wholly independently owned and operated.
PopMatters is a member of BUZZMEDIA Music, MOG and Guardian Select.