Don't listen to "Armchair Apocrypha" while standing. You might think that you're okay through the first two minutes of the first song, "Fiery Crash," but your knees will weaken when the array of ...

Andrew Bird is not a classically trained musician. Instead, the violinist studied folk and jazz, and his older material, however varied it is, weighed emphatically on traditional folk music, be it ...

Andrew Bird has a great talent for banging words together: fatal and prenatal, cubicle and cuticle, pliers and barbed wire, two-by-four and war. His agile voice carries the careful phrases over his ...