This week welcomed great news of new projects in the works, featuring great music fests on the way, highly anticipated new albums and just all-around awesomeness.

The Big Year stars Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black as bird watchers on a quest to spot the most species of birds in North America in a single year. This informal competition amongst birders is known as a "Big Year." The pursuit the three men embark on serves as both an escape from real life and as an allegory for it.

"We could not think of a more fitting actor to play Dain Ironfoot, the staunchest and toughest of Dwarves, than Billy Connelly , the Big Yin himself," director Peter Jack son told The Hollywood Reporter.

Birding: it's a sport or hobby that treads the line between familiar and mysterious, requiring no introduction but not a subject that many will consider themselves an expert on.

Southwest winds 10-to-15 miles per hour will be accentuated with gusts up to 30.

Beyond performing theme songs for shows including "Malcolm in the Middle," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "Courage the Cowardly Dog," They Might Be Giants also have an extensive discography of catchy, quirky songs such as "Birdhouse in Your Soul." Add in "Still Alive" songwriter Jonathan Super-fans of indie musician and blogger Mike Doughty ... (more)

As of late it seems as if more movies are being made either teaming up unlikely actors or trying to bring a group together to create something special that no one expected to happen.

The new tween musical-fantasy sitcom "How to Rock" proves that some stories and themes never go out of style.

Synopsis ~ Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson portray three men from very different walks of life, facing a mid-life crisis, a work-life crisis and a no-life crisis.

Bon Iver, Beck, St. Vincent, The Shins, Feist and the newly announced solo project from Jack White will be featured at the Sasquatch! Music Festival.