Andrew Bird; Lincoln Theater, Washington DC & Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
So it seems like every year I do one of these – a semi-vacation to some other random city to see Andrew Bird. It’s a bit like a pilgrimage, if catching a couple of concerts and then spending a few days pretending that I live somewhere else can be counted as a pilgrimage. By my […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 11, 2013
People occasionally ask me how I can sit through four concerts from the same artist four nights in a row, or more generally, how there is any artist, anywhere, in any genre, who it’s possible to love so much that I would want to see more than a handful of times, let alone 30+. Â Even […]
Andrew Bird – Gezelligheid 2013 – Historical Lagniappe
There is a thing that Andrew Bird does, and it is a thing that Andrew Bird has done for a long time, and that thing is covering songs that in their original form might sound strange to our ears. While it’s the kind of thing I could (and have) rambled on about until the fun’s […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 10, 2013
I’ve got about an hour to tell you my thoughts on last night’s Gezellegheid shows before I get to go off and meet up with fellow erstwhile blogger Mel to go stand in line for a while. Â (These write-ups were much easier to manage when I turned Birdmas into a staycation; maybe next year.) Â Last […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 9, 2013
Hey, internet. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Â I’ve become a bit more of an occasional blogger than anything else, but there’s one very special time of year where I still have thoughts and feelings about music that I need to impart to you, and that’s during what I’ve previously dubbed Birdmas, that delightfully cozy […]
11 Albums I Actually Listened to and Liked in 2012
So, as we’ve previously established, I am absolutely terrible at making Best Of Anything lists. Â The lists are either unwieldy or never get finished. Â But as I was sitting around trying to come up with some songs to play on my year-end CHIRP Radio show, I figured that I might as well make up a […]