As Jessica mentioned when we posted "In The Dirt," Bon Iver drummer/pianist S. Carey has a solo album All We Grow. The collection shows he's capable of standing alone, sure, but here we get a small…   Read Story »

UPDATE: And the winner is... Ron Artest. Tyler Coffin. Congrats Tyler! Thanks everyone who participated. // We've already established that Kristen Wiig is a champion. Now Stereogum has teamed…   Read Story »

Martin Dosh still creates the complex electro-acoustic mash he's known for here on his fifth LP, Tommy (named for a friend who passed, not the Who), but there's more room in his song structures.…   Read Story »

On the heels of the Letterman love, "Fitz And Dizzyspells" gets itself a charming little Digitelio-directed video with plenty of Chi-city bona fides. That is to say: lots of snow, scenes shot at the…   Read Story »

Today we check in with Chicago singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist behind 2007's wonderful Armchair Apocrypha. NAME: Andrew Bird PROGRESS REPORT: Noble Beast out on January 27 (Fat Possum),…   Read Story »

Basement video sessions are all the rage these days (see: Nigel Godrich, Juan et al). So in furtherance of that trend, rather than producing a glossy "proper" video, Martin Dosh keeps it real…   Read Story »

Very good to hear new stuff's coming from Martin Dosh (better known as, um, Dosh, squares), the multi-instrumental madman we freak for every time we see Andrew Bird, and every time he puts out a…   Read Story »

Emo's was our first stop on late-start Thursday, and after a few tunes with Dosh and Bird, we were off to see Marnie Stern and her Rodney Dangerfield impression at Ms. Bea's. But the lineup the Tag…   Read Story »

Andrew Bird is cooler than you. Well, cooler in that tall, distracted, mad genius way, the sorta character that can have nervous tics of personality and head motions and still seem like the guy you…   Read Story »