Video Experiment: Transfixed By A One-Man Band, Tune-Yards and Andrew Bird

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  As we’ve discovered before, the Little Things are what draw you in, and they’re what makes the show irresistible and unforgettable.  But what happens when concert fans get transfixed by a one-man band street performer, and others artists like Girl Talk, Andrew Bird or TuNeYards who are pushing the art forward in the 21st [...]

Andrew Bird's Shattered Brilliance At The Civic Opera House

  When Pete Townshend did it,  it was considered innovative and brilliant. Jimi Hendrix made it a burning and majestic work of art. And both used the destruction and torching of their stringed instruments as a final climatic surge, culminating their performance into a massive swell that released theirs and the crowd’s emotional inertia.  But this was not [...]

The Live Looping of Lau Nau

Have you ever been surprised by a band that went on before the band you were there to see? During The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music Festival I was presented with a moment where my eyes were dazzled just as much as my ears. While waiting for Japanese singer songwriter Shugo Tokumaru’s debut U.S. show [...]

Kids Take Flight With Andrew Bird

Here’s what I told Popmatters that Andrew Bird did to the kids at the Priztker Pavilion last week; and Colleen did a nice job of capturing the culprit as she always does. A lesson learned from kids that know how to rock to Andrew Bird. The rush of kids toward the stage was fantastic! It [...]