Andrew Bird

Music Picks: Tame Impala, Deftones, DJ Quik

Music Picks: Robert Glasper, Nick Waterhouse, Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Andrew Bird - The Greek Theatre - 8-12-12

Andrew Bird The Greek Theatre 8-12-12 Better than... a Sunday evening on the couch watching Breaking Bad. SIKE NOTHING IS BETTER THAN WATCHING BREAKING BAD. The tagline on Andrew Bird is always gonna be he's that guy who whistles. Which is a shame, because starting with 2005's Mysterious Productio ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, August 10 Bomba Estéreo LEVITT PAVILION, MACARTHUR PARK Bomba Estéreo draw upon traditional styles of music like cumbia and champeta, but the Colombian quintet is too musically restless to be strict revivalists. Instead, band leader Simón Mejía pumps up their folkloric influences with h ... More >>

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Kelly Hogan

Brouwerij West, an L.A. Microbrewery That's Turning Its Bottles Into an Art Gallery

Beer talk runs the gamut from the frat boy refrain "beer is beer" to craft beer enthusiasts sparring in fermentation terminology. If there is any "art" to the drink, it lies within the bottle, and rarely will the conversation veer to what's outside it: the label. "It's not like you can open up the ... More >>

Music Picks: Soweto Gospel Choir, Garbage, Neon Trees, Jennifer Leitham

Also, Kitty, Slaughterhouse, James, Chairlift and others

Top Ten Songs About Beer

​Wine and cheese; scotch and cigars; tequila and...more tequila: Good things come in pairs, and drinks are no exception. Our personal favorite? Beer and music. As card-carrying beer nerds, we couldn't be more excited that Monday kicked off American Craft Beer Week; and, as your trusted music ... More >>

Music Picks: Talib Kweli, Pete Yorn, Lucy Schwartz

Also Rise Against, Piney Gir, Deradoorian and others

Rock & Drool!

Music Picks: Haroula Rose, Jimmy Webb, Adler's Appetite, Nikka Costa

Also, The Melvins, Graf Orlock, Dudamel/Mahler 9th, Lissie and others

Live Review: Andrew Bird at Largo

Cameron WittigAndrew Bird (Yes, this is a promo photo. We'd love to show you a picture of the actual Largo show, but Largo hates photography.)​A small audience waited expectantly in the warm gloom of the Largo at the Coronet for the Andrew Bird Variety Hour to begin. The lovely thing about t ... More >>

Live in L.A.: The Henry Clay People, Health, Best Coast, Blake Mills, Jaguar Love

The Henry Clay People​The Henry Clay People's jagged, college-educated barroom rock has wormed its way into a lot of Angeleno hearts the past couple of years, its classic riff-slinging and manic shout-singing somehow turning the high anxiety of "Working Part Time" into catharsis. The quintet's ... More >>

Live in L.A. This Weekend: Flying Lotus, Carole King & James Taylor, Bajofondo, Patti LuPone, Sonny Rollins, Metalfest, Wavefest and enough indie rock to start a blog

Flying Lotus​Avant-garde beatmaker Flying Lotus is the toast of the town right now, the release of his new album "Cosmogramma" having hit the shores of electronic music like a tsunami and folks still buzzing over his eye-popping set at Coachella. For the man born Steve Ellison, this weekend's ... More >>

Music Picks: Jail Weddings, Summer Darling, Roky Erickson, Jonathan Richman

Also, Bajofondo, Massive Attack, Minus the Bear and others

Sole And The Skyrider Band Come To L.A., Release Bizarro PSA Series and Free EP (MP3s)

Anticon founder Sole will be performing tonight at the Knitting Factory backed by L.A.-based three-piece, Skyrider. Earlier this week, that combined outfit, Sole And The Skyrider Band, released its sophomore LP, Plastique, via Connecticut-based Fake Four Inc. -- not, as would be expected, through An ... More >>

Rock Picks: Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Vice Squad

Also, Beyonce, the Datsuns, the Veils, the Germs and others

SXSW '09, Day 1: On Max Tundra, Mojoe, and Mediocrity

I have this theory: like most things, greatness at music generally* requires an alloy of natural talent, providence, and an Outliers-like tenacity requiring 10 years hard labor in dingy crackerbox clubs, or snagging a Best New Music on Pitchfork--whichever comes first. The corollary being that for ... More >>

Last Night: Andrew Bird's Sold Out Show at the Orpheum

Timothy Norris Within the first few songs of Andrew Bird's sold out show last night at the Orpheum downtown, the singer/violinist/samplerist/guitarist had taken off his shoes, revealing red socks that quirkily contrasted with his casual black vintage suit. It was Bird, totally comfortable on a stag ... More >>

Tonight at the Orpheum: Andrew Bird Brings NPR/Will Shortz Devotees Together for Show

Andrew Bird's success story has to be one of indie rock's unlikeliest: We're talking, after all, about a whistling, violin-playing dude from Chicago who has somehow managed to outlast his stint with the Squirrel Nut Zippers by penning impossibly erudite art-folk tunes about fake palindromes and S ... More >>

Rock Picks: Don Caballero, Yo! Majesty, Joan Baez, Juana Molina

Also, Extreme Animals, Andrew Bird, Peach Fuzz, and others

Top 10 Americana Albums of 2008

By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

In the Studio with Jason Bentley, Newly Christened Host of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

(Photos by Timothy Norris. View the "Beyond the Stage: Mercury Rev on KCRW with Jason Bentley and at El Rey Theatre" slideshow.)

The Year That Anticon Became a Label

After nearly a decade of innovation, an influential hip-hop cooperative goes legit, relocates to L.A.

Part 1: Thoughts on Music Now. (The festival that is. You'll have to wait for my multi-volume treatise on the state of music today.)

The rise of classically informed indie music, one awesome photograph of MC 62 Foot Jesus, and my thoughts on "conflict of interest" in music criticism today. ALSO, a member of Grizzly Bear getting crunk in a Cincinnati, OH parking lot. It's kind of like US Weekly for obscure people.

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#50-46)

50. Redman-Red Gone Wild [Def Jam] Other than M.O.P., Redman is the only East Coast rapper able to conceptually re-make the same album since 1992 and get away with it. The only difference is that where Billy Danze and Fizzy Womack are concerned with curb-checking you if you wander into Browns ... More >>

Rock Picks: Deborah Harry, Björk, Richard Hawley, Shonen Knife, Bang Sugar Bang

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Shows and Tickets Coming Up

Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, UCLA, Jan. 30 and Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, Jan. 22. Both shows on sale Saturday Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Suicidal Tendencies - San Diego Sports Arena, Dec. 7 - All ages Andrew Bird, Handsome Family - Orpheum, Dec. 7 Black Ghosts, Mezzanine Owls, Tweak Bird, more ... More >>

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