The new Hillshire Farm commercial promotes a mouth-watering flavor of smoked hickory to accompany such dishes as gumbo, pizza and tacos. What’s the song in this appetizing ad?
As virtuostic as he is proflific, the Chicago-born Andrew Bird has been giving us slices of baroque gorgeousness every year for a decade. At 39, he's established a unique, signature sound, a pastiche of a fragile violin, earnest lyricism and clever arrangements, somewhere in the environs of fellow indie darlings Sufjan Stevens and the Arcade Fire. And so on 'Hands of Glory,' when that violin becom
"If you want to bring on a special musical guest, you can't do better than this," David Letterman said on Tuesday's 'Late Show,' introducing Andrew Bird's performance with Tift Merritt. Those words were met with very sparse applause -- not because the audience wasn't into Bird and Merritt, but because there was no audience, thanks to superstorm Sandy. But despite the virtually empty Ed S