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 Wrens went seven years between their second and third albums, Secaucus and The Meadowlands — a period of time that seemed extreme at the time of The Meadowlands’ release, in September 2003 ...

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 ...

After those cool mornings last week, when the overnight temperature dropped to the mid-40s, house wrens took flight for warmer climes. For some reason, Carolina wrens do not even attempt to migrate.

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 ...

Wrens frontman Charles Bissell has revealed that he is battling a form of blood cancer. In a darkly humorous Facebook post, the indie rocker wrote that he’d been diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

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.