129 Total shows played in 2011 87 Total shows played 2010 & 2009, combined 28 Number of states played in 2011 2 Number of states played in 2009 & 2010, combined 49,307 Miles traveled in 2011 70 Percentage of those miles w...

Mark your calendars! We're extremely excited to announce that June 2nd we'll be taking the Main Stage at the Mountain Jam Festival. The initial lineup was just announced (The Roots, Gov't Mule, 50+ others). Use the code SPARROW when you're buying y...

Head on over to the LA Times' music blog to hear a track off of our second album, Pound of Dirt, which will be released February 28. You can also pre-order the album on Amazon at http://amzn.to/birdspreorder

Again, this episode illustrates events that occurred many months ago. There's no way we can continue on with this blog without dealing with all of these events as they happened, just as there's no way that we can share them with you now without the per...

As you may have noticed, this blog has by now slipped to approximately four months previous to the present day. Due to the incredible scale of the musical, spacial and temporal adventures we've been consumed with, not to mention general goings-on, it's...

In which the Dirty Birds play a motorcycle convention, rock Gathering of the Vibes, start recording our second album, and get our feet stuck to the aftermath of a rugby tournament.  (As before, we’re still trying to catch ourselves up to real time,...