There’s a lot of hipster rage against Pitchfork for bringing to light things other people, without the inside track, might not know about, thus bringing music to a wider audience of appreciative ears. Bastards.
But, you have to admit even this newfangled Pitchfork.tv thing hits the mark sometimes. This is one of those times. Check out [...]
Check out the below performance of Andrew Bird’s beautiful “Fitz & the Dizzyspells” from Qtv. The track is off of his newest album Noble Beast. In other Andrew Bird new he recently announced that he’ll be hitting the road with St. Vincent this summer/fall.
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Peter, Bjorn, and John did a Daytrotter Session.
Little Joy did a Daytrotter Session.
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The 2009 Lollapalooza lineup has been announced, and it is full of giants, great new acts and probably a good handful of acts you’ve never heard of. The festival will be taking place August 7-9 in Chicago’s Grant Park. The full lineup can be found here.
Here is a taste of what you will see:
Depeche Mode
Tool
The [...]
Andrew Bird continues to play in every venue that will take an indie-folk star as he does an in-studio performance on Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current. “Fitz & the Dizzyspells” is off of Bird’s newest disc Noble Beast. Check out the video of the in-studio performance below.
Here’s a round up of some of the better late night show performances over the last week in case you didn’t get to catch a performance or two. Artists included in the post after the jump: Andrew Bird, U2, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, David Byrne, Neko Case, Lily Allen, The Roots, Santigold, and more.
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Andrew Bird with Mucca Pazza – "Fitz & The Dizzyspells”
Andrew Bird has been everywhere playing this track lately, and now there is a super weird video that seems oddly appropriate. There are dancing bananas, a marching band, and Bird shooting flaming arrows in a parking lot. I know. Watch it.
“Fitz & the Dizzyspells” is off [...]
Andrew Bird has been all over the place since the release of Noble Beast. Appearances on Letterman, a huge tour, a show at Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra, adding Michael Lewis (of Happy Apple) to the touring lineup, among just generally being Andrew Bird and appearing everywhere you look like a Jedi. Bird has [...]
This track, titled “Lenin,” is a B-Side from Arcade Fire’s Funeral sessions. It is now slated to be released on Dark was the Night, a The National produced compilation to raise money for HIV/AIDs research organization The Red Hot Organization.
This track has been around previously in a couple forms and was originally known as “When Lenin [...]
Andrew Bird recently swooped by David Letterman to perform “Fitz & Dizzyspells” from his latest album Noble Beast. Check it out, it’s pretty great. (And is that Michael Lewis of Happy Apple fame playing bass with Bird? I think it is. Wait, Wait, is that Martin Dosh on drums? It’s a regular MPLS reunion on [...]
