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Concert Review: Andrew Bird/Laura Marling
(Photo: Jason Stoff) The soft-spoken 22 year-old British folk songstress Laura Marling began her set at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with a simple, “Hello, my name’s Laura” as she slung the strap of
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Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
With their shifting arrangements, unexpected mood swings and lyrical tendencies towards darkly humorous, somber or otherwise fatalistic subject matter, many of Andrew Bird’s songs feels like a great jumbling of the senses or having
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Five Years Later: The Best Albums of 2005!!
Five years allows albums to mature like fine wine or be forgotten like a tasty Happy Meal. We learned this lesson last year with our Best of 2004 feature. When coming up with this
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Concert Review: Andrew Bird/Heartless Bastards
It was an interesting study in musical contrasts at the Pageant Sunday night. Opening act Heartless Bastards specializes in something that can best be described as a thrillingly bastardized form of garage blues-rock. The
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Andrew Bird: Noble Beast
Andrew Bird Noble Beast Rating: 3.5 Label: Fat Possum Though none of Andrew Bird’s previous releases can be characterized as straightforward, Noble Beast is probably his most challenging and least immediately accessible record to
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