Bowerbirds

The Birdlips are a duo from Charlottesville, Va., with Cliff Usher on vocals and guitar and Lindsay Pitts on keyboard and vocals. Read More

Have you heard of a band called The Torches? Read More

From the archives of "Possibly 4th Street," a video column in which we've invited musicians to perform live and impromptu somewhere in New York City, here's some excellent footage of Bowerbirds performing in a Williamsburg Surf Shop. After they re-released Hymns for a Dark Horse , but before they recorded, let alone released, their most recent Upper Air , the Bowerbirds (primary members and off-stage couple Phil Moore and Beth Tacular) met us just a block from the Williamsburg waterfront. Read More

The 930 Listening Room has become a great local venue to see musical acts from around the city, as well as the rest of the country. Read More

After two and a half years of striving to inspire a heated debate with an outmoded combination of impassioned polemic and old-school Bernstein and Woodward-style investigative journalism, last month's bulging crop of enraged responses confirmed that all you need to do to really get the wires humming is casually drop in a dismissive aside about Interpol or Spoon. Read More

Artistically clad earth tones, Bowerbirds, an up-and-coming Americana band, played a concert Wednesday night in the Union Theatre. Read More

It was on the night that Mark and Ken played the North Star with The Mountain Goats who were on tour with Bowerbirds. Read More

Bowerbirds, an Americana band, will perform at 7 p.m. today in the Union Theatre. Read More

The Guardian profiles comics legend Osamu Tezuka and his creation, Astro Boy. Tezuka's comics look outward to the world, too: his influences are decisively international. Read More

Bowerbirds' distinctively spare, handcrafted songs creak and swell like wooden floorboards in an old house. Read More