In 2013, The Wrens had already been working on the album for three years. Then, in 2014, about eight months after we spoke, Bissell tweeted from The Wrens’ account that the record was done, save ...

Bissell, the guitarist/vocalist for The Wrens, has spent the better part of a decade working on a follow-up to the group's 2003 album The Meadowlands — perhaps the most beloved indie album ever ...

The Wrens hunkered down to demo 30 or so songs but were told they still needed to write a hit. After nearly a cumulative half-decade of flirting with mainstream success, they were fed up.

The nestlings of fairy-wrens don’t have much of a choice when it comes to listening to their mothers: The birds must reproduce a particular sound learned from their moms to be fed, according to ...

But Carolina Wrens are used to this sort of thing. They regularly nest in the vicinity of human activity- even in mailboxes ...

The Wrens' "Authorized Biography (of Sorts)," accessible at www.wrens.com, tells the kind of music-biz story that's hilarious to anyone who didn't live through it.

Australian fairy wrens have names like ‘splendid’ and ‘superb’ — and they are: stunning with plumages of varying shades of brilliant blues, with a long tail that they cock up like ours do when hopping ...

Rock wrens can have more than a 100 song types and marsh wrens more than 200. Our more familiar backyard wren, the Bewick’s wren, is a relatively modest sort, with a mere 10 to 20 song variations.

House wrens also winter in the southern U.S. and Mexico. Do remember, birds of all kinds have survived springs like this one for as long as birds have been here. Jim Williams ...

Carolina wrens are small -- only about 5.5 inches in height. Their plumage is cinnamon brown on top and tawny underneath, marked by long white eyebrow stripes (called supercilium), and white throats.