It's that time of year again... time to make my year end "Best of" list. I should start rolling out my Top 20 list sometime over the coming week. Until then, you can go back and read up on my favorite releases of 2009 , and relive some of that music with the following YouTube clips... #1 - Noble Beasts by Andrew Bird #2 - One Foot in the Ether by Band of Heathens #3 - Tarpits [...]

Bowerbirds @ Mercury Lounge 4/27 ( more by Chris La Putt ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * The Roots @ Highline Ballroom * Forro in the Dark @ Music on the Oval * Bowerbirds, Megafaun @ Bowery Ballroom * Mahavishnu Project @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * Stepping Off "The Corner" @ Rockefeller Park * The Duhks, Red Molly @ Madison Square [...]
Conor Oberst estuvo en el show de David Letterman y tocó la canción "Spoiled". Presentando la canción "Little Birds", los muchachos de Death Cab For Cutie estuvieron en el programa de Conan O'Brien. Andrew Bird hizo el tema "Fitz & The Dizzyspells" en QTV. Comparte esta anotación
Unlike the roughly 46 other videos of Andrew Bird performing "Fitz & the Dizzyspells," this video of our favorite whistler/violinist performing on Canada's QTV finds Bird performing with just an additional guitarist, and showcases Bird's impressive looping abilities (look how he loops the violin part in the beginning). Dude could (and has) do all of his songs by himself. Andrew Bird's Noble Beast is out now. [ Culture Bully ]
Performance footage of Andrew Bird in CBC's Q TV studio.