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Make a plan to love Bright Eyes on tour
Apparently, you don't have to own a University of Anchorage student identification card to make it into a Bright Eyes show after all. After Conor and company treat Alaskan academia to three back-to-back performances, they're heading all over the country for the real deal: a three-month fall tour, with one notable Hollywood Bowl gig with M. Ward and the L.A. Philharmonic. Click here to read Paste's review of Bright Eyes' latest album, Cassadaga, which premiered in April on Saddle Creek. September 13 - Denver, Col. @ Ogden Theatre* 14 - Boise, Idaho @ Big Easy Concert House* 15 - Spokane,... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBright Eyes adds lucky number of tour dates
Days before University of Alaska-Fairbanks’ annual “Starvation Gulch Festival,” which has a history of students stealing 400 lb slabs of concrete and burning giant wooden towns, Bright Eyes will stop by the once stir-crazy institution for one of several recently-added tour dates. Oberst and company also plan to make two stops at University of Alaska-Anchorage, in this case, weeks away from the local 14th annual Acapella Festivella – “the most energy of any live music,” a previous year’s audience member told The Northern Light. Maybe our northernmost brethren will find Bright Eyes dull by comparison to the crazy carnival of... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBright Eyes
By his own admission, Conor Oberst suffers from wanderlust... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesBright Eyes - Cassadaga
Conor Oberst trains his camera lens on landscapes blurring past read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsBright Eyes Announces Spring Tour
After spending most of 2006 in the studio, Bright Eyes is going to resurface in late February to show off the new work. The tour starts in Chicago and hits major cities on both coasts, promising a traditional line-up, plus songs from his upcoming Four Winds EP and the new full-length, Cassadaga. The shows are being performed in a select set of intimate venues for the full Bright Eyes affect. Ticket pre-sale starts on January 18th and regular sales start on January 25th. Four Winds will be available March 6th and Cassadaga on April 10th, both on Saddle Creek Records.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBright Eyes Preps EP, Full-Length
Music writers around the world are busy shining up their hyperbolic descriptors, as Conor Oberst and the rotating cast he calls Bright Eyes have just announced two releases for early 2007. The newly efficient trio composed of Oberst, Nate Walcott and producer Mike Mogis spent much of this year prepping both Four Winds, an EP including a self-titled single and five exclusive b-sides to be released on March 6, and Cassadaga, the next proper Bright Eyes full-length, set to drop on April 10. Set in various studios in New York City, Los Angeles, Portland, OR and Lincoln, NE, the sessions... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBright Eyes Rarities To Be Released In October
The latest project from Omaha, Neb.’s, Bright Eyes is set for release Oct. 24 on Saddle Creek Records. Titled Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005), the CD/LP will be a compilation of rarities, collaborations and covers. This will be the first release from Conor Oberst since 2005’s live album Motion Sickness. Bright Eyes is also expected to release a studio album in 2007.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBright Eyes, Feist, Magic Numbers
On the first deadly cold night of the Southern winter... read more
Found in: Concerts, ReviewsSaddle Creek gets busy
(Above: Saddle Creek artist Joel Peterson, aka Broken Spindles) Omaha-based Saddle Creek Records is gearing up another round of new releases. First up, is the third LP from one-man project Broken Spindles. In between playing bass on the road with labelmates The Faint and Beep Beep, Joel Peterson crafted his third record in as many years. inside/absent will be released Aug. 23. In 1995, after years of playing together in various bands, four young friends from Omaha’s underground music scene formed the band Cursive. Now, ten years later, Saddle Creek will release The Difference Between Houses and Homes (Lost Songs... read more
Found in: Music, NewsBright Eyes Announces Digital AshTour
Bright Eyes will co-headline a tour this Spring and Summer with label-mates The Faint, who haven’t played in the U.S. since the Fall 2004. Acting as his back-up band, The Faint will enable Bright Eyes to recreate songs from Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, something he wasn’t able to accomplish during his January-February tour in support of co-release I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. In addition to The Faint, Bright Eyes’ supporting band will also include Mike Mogis, Gretta Cohn (Cursive) on cello, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) on guitar, Anton Patnzer on violin, and Shane Aspegren (Berg Sans Nipple)... read more
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