Conor Oberst

GV newswire re-blog’d the suite first listen new & active album reviews IN VIDEO bonus beats IN PHOTO ← Previous Post Next Post → Groovevolt.com May 17, 2012 Newswire Green Day will headline the Voodoo Music Experience. The group is the first act announced to participate in the festival, which takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 26 through October 28. Green Day is releasing three albums in the next eight months and the group’s appearance at the festival will take...Read Full Story

Conor Oberst recently announced that he will be touring again with Desaparecidos, but while we’re still waiting for a local date with that reunited band the Bright Eyes lead singer will be in Los Angeles for a solo show. You can see Conor Oberst when he plays at UCLA Royce Hall on Thursday, Spetember 27th. Tickets for this show are set to go on sale starting on Friday, May 18th at 10am thorugh Ticketmaster for $39.00 plus any additional service fees. You can expect these tickets to move fast...Read Full Story

Bright Eyes is an American indie/folk band founded by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst and consisting of Oberst, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis, trumpet and piano player Nate Walcott, and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha's indie music scene. Bright Eyes is signed to Saddle Creek Records, an American label also founded by Oberst and distributed by Sony Corporation. In 2004, the singles "Lua" and "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)" took the top...Read Full Story

Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter born February 15, 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska. He began his recording career in 1993 at the age of 13 and has since produced an enormous amount of material. Conor was deeply influenced early on by singer-songwriters David Dondero and Simon Joyner. His first two albums "Water" and "Here's to Special Treatment" were both released in 1994. Rolling Stone has referred to him as "rock's boy genius. 1 - Cape Canaveral - 4:04 2 - Sausalito - 3:10 3 - Get-Well...Read Full Story

Genre: Indie/Pop/Rock/Folk Country: USA Tracklist 01. One Of My Kind 02. Gentleman’s Pact 03. Corina, Corina 04. Synesthete Song 05. Breezy 06. Central City 07. I Got The Reason #1 08. Phil’s Song (Learn To Stop Me) 09. Normal 10. Kodachrome 11. White Shoes (Reprise) Website [mp3 256kbps] rg df mcRead Full Story

Conor Oberst played 2 shows @ 400 Bar in Minneapolis, MN on the 29th and 30th of December, 2007 with Nik Freitas on Guitars, Jason Boesel on Drums, Macey Taylor on Bass and Nate Walcott on Keyboards and the French Horn. During the show he made it clear that the band was not Bright Eyes and that they had yet to select a band name. A show on the 1st of February has them billed as 'Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band.' The Mystic Valley Band includes Taylor Hollingsworth as lead guitarist...Read Full Story

Rating: Having been a long time fan of Bright Eyes, I was really interested to see how his return to the name would go, since I haven’t been overwhelmed, necessarily, by his Conor Oberst output.  For the most part, it’s a return to form, though most people will find that The People’s Key more closely resembles Digital Ash as far as production goes, rather than going the route of lush orchestration that was present on Lifted. Of course, the album opens with over two minutes of spoken word...Read Full Story

Rating: Having been a long time fan of Bright Eyes, I was really interested to see how his return to the name would go, since I haven’t been overwhelmed, necessarily, by his Conor Oberst output.  For the most part, it’s a return to form, though most people will find that The People’s Key more closely resembles Digital Ash as far as production goes, rather than going the route of lush orchestration that was present on Lifted. Of course, the album opens with over two minutes of spoken word...Read Full Story

BRIGHT EYES - A Nebraskan indie-rock band founded by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst. The band consists of Oberst, trumpet and piano player Nate Walcott and multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis, as well as a rotating line-up of collaborators primarily drawn from Omaha's indie music scene.Read Full Story

One of those songs that has an atmosphere all its own… Thank You, Bright Eyes. “Dreamt I was riding on a motorbike” “Bust through the Firewall into heaven Then I’m standing in that blinding light Crooked crosses falling from the sky” lyrics by: Conor Oberst The People’s Key Bright Eyes? According to virtual sources, the band name, as well as its often referenced use with mild variants found within many of Obersts’ lyrics was derived from the movie Planet of the Apes. The term of...Read Full Story