Bright Eyes crystallize going to the prom, experimenting with new SSRI medications and navigating the barriers to adulthood on Kids Table, a new eight-song EP arriving Sept. 26 from Dead Oceans. The first single, “Dyslexic Palindrome,” features Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra, whose group has toured with Bright Eyes of late. “Alynda Segarra […]
Bright Eyes has revealed details for its next batch of Companions catalog reissues, which will arrive Nov. 11 on Dead Oceans. The Companions editions of albums Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn all include EPs […]
At a Houston show over the weekend, Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst abruptly left the stage after performing only two songs at White Oak Music Hall. Brooklyn Vegan reported that Oberst left the stage after two songs, “Dance And Sing” and “Lover I Don’t Have To Love.” Attendees of the Houston show took to Twitter […]
After hitting the road (for the first time in over a decade) in support of last year’s Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was this summer, Bright Eyes are heading back out on tour in March. The trio of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott just put out a baker’s dozen dates throughout […]
Name Tom Morello Best known for Star Trek fandom, competent Dungeons and Dragons play, and reinventing the electric guitar. Current city Los Angeles, CA Really want to be in Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL reliving past baseball glories. Excited about The Atlas Underground Fire! My current music collection has a lot of Legends. And a little […]
If you thought Tiny Desk Concerts would be impossible without all band members in the same room, you don’t know Bright Eyes very well. The indie rockers presented their own spin on NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert Monday, as they performed four tracks, “Mariana Trench,” “Pan and Broom,” “Persona Non Grata” and “Shell Games.” The first […]
Bright Eyes are gearing up to release their tenth studio album, Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was, this summer. And while we’ve heard a few songs off the project already, there’s one topic we won’t be hearing about: Donald Trump. Though the band was praised for its 2005 protest song “When the President Talks […]
Weeks ahead the release of her sophomore effort, Punisher, indie rocker Phoebe Bridgers is giving fans something of an entree. On Wednesday, Bridgers dropped a cover of Bright Eyes’ 2005 track “First Day of My Life” as part of Deezer’s Home Sessions, months after sharing a cover of frontman and Better Oblivion Community Center partner Conor Oberst’s […]
Bright Eyes have shared a third song from their not-yet-titled ninth album, which sure seems to be arriving sometime in 2020 and breaking a nine-year hiatus for the emo-tinged folk legends (or is it folk-tinged emo legends?). The aggressively grayscale “One and One” was written and recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, but its message expresses […]