Next month, Saddle Creek will be reissuing One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels, the Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova collaboration originally released in 2004. Although Conor Oberst has lately been more concerned with Monsters and Mystics, Conor put on his Bright Eyes hat again for four new songs on the reissue! Tracklist: 1. Rollerskating* 2. Happy Accident* 3. Someone's Love* 4. I [...]
Seemingly, Conor Oberst has the Midas touch. Whether as the frontman of Bright Eyes , drummer for Park. Ave., leader of the Mystic Valley Band, or member of the supergroup Monsters of Folk , the man writes and records amazing music. With the Bright Eye's moniker possibly on the way out , the group are now recording tracks which may mark the end of a 15 year collaboration. Currently, according to Twentyfourbit , Bright Eyes and fellow Nebraskan, Neva Dinova, are finishing up the reissue of their 2004 release One [...]
Conor Oberst stayed on our radar during 2009 via his work with Monsters of Folk and the Mystic Valley Band. No mistake about it, Oberst has been busy, and fans have wondered if the singer-songwriter will make time for his final moments as Bright Eyes, after announcing last year that he wanted to retire the moniker. Well, here's some exciting news, small-scale though it may be: Bright Eyes' home label Saddle Creek plans on reissuing the Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova collaborative split EP, One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels . It will feature at least four total tracks [...]
Today's Mix/Cover/Live + MP3 Roundup includes Bright Eyes, E.Gold, Caitlin Rose & Citay. MP3: E.Gold - Separate Our Hearts (feat. Alexis) (Ghost Hunter Remix) www.myspace.com/e.gold MP3: Bright Eyes - Mushaboom (Feist Cover) www.thisisbrighteyes.com/ [...]
There are some "holidays" that have too much oddball history to ignore, with Groundhog Day ranking near the top of the list when it comes to weird facts and traditions. Aside from the cult of old Pennsylvanian men sporting top hats, there's the utter absurdity of parading a rodent around like Simba from The Lion King in hopes he can be more meteorologically accurate than Al Roker. Regardless, the people of Punxsutaney, Pennsylvania wait then entire year for this trivial day and even Mr. Groundhog Day himself - Bill Murray - urges everyone to check [...]
Hi, do you know Conor Oberst? Of course you do. You first knew him as Bright Eyes. What, I don't know if you liked Bright Eyes; you never told me. I can't keep track of everything you say you liked. I'm just here to share, baby. Sometimes I don't even remember what I wrote last month. (Which wasn't much, actually, so I guess I have an excuse there.) He did a little bit of this before Bright Eyes and a little bit of [...]
Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything (I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning) Super Furry Animals - Hello Sunshine (Phantom Power) The Supernaturals - The Day Before Yesterday's Man (It Doesn't Matter Anymore) The Besnard Lakes - Albatross (The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night) Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Blue Lines) Frank Sinatra - I Won't Dance (A Swingin' Affair) Gorillaz - Stylo [feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack] (Plastic Beach) Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney) Kenny Loggins - Footloose (Footloose) Fleet Foxes - Your Protector [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive When drummers decide to become frontmen, you can end up with Phil Collins , or you can go the way of Jason Boesel , who pounds the skins for Rilo Kiley , Bright Eyes and Conor Oberst 's Mystic Valley Band . Boesel recently took a cue from the company he keeps and decided to try his own hand at songwriting . It went well for him -- so well, [...]
Ok indie-cindys. Your other favorite Bright Eyes -esque band, The Antlers , have been remixed by Buffetlibre and in my humble opinion, is better than the original? Soz. Buffetlibre's kinda like the Spanish version of the Twelves , making indie songs indie-r with their remixes. You can grab their remixes of Patrick Wolf and Little Boots for free on their website here . In the meantime, tell me you don't like this Antler's remix? :) Buy [...]
I was driving to work on Saturday, yes, Saturday (I'll get to that) when I passed the Novo Nordisk corporate complex on Route 1 at around 7 am. There were cars in the parking lot. Not a lot, and maybe some of them were the cleaning staff and that was their regular hours, but there were definitely a bunch of cars there owned by people who were working, on a Saturday morning, outside of their regular work hours. And it got me angry. The client I was traveling to on Saturday is a major American corporation (or at least a [...]
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The end of DECADEnce may come a couple days late, as some of the massive pieces of writing I did last week, combined with a whole lot going on post-New Years pushed the time table for these lists back a little bit. At least it's finally getting done though, right? So what follows is the list that I consider to be the most important amid all the other lists I've written across the past 10 years. It is, after all, a grand summation of a decade's worth of fine records, these being the finest of the fine. Now before you [...]
Coldest winter ever. And worst January of the decade so far, for many reasons, not the least of all because I've had to work harder for the past week than I had to work in any week in the entire previous decade, and for a company that is getting rid of me in another month. I think there's irony in there somewhere, and not the Alanis Morrissette kind. But also, it's the only January of the decade ever, so I guess one could say it's been the best ever. If you like the fucking cold. i [...]
Die ersten zehn Jahre mit der großen Zwei am Anfang brachten musikalisch gesehen nichts wirklich neues. Vielmehr stand die Vermischung, Erweiterung und Wiederholung von schon bestehenden Musikrichtungen im Vordergrund. Und deshalb war es auch kein schlechtes Jahrzehnt - dafür entstanden zu viele gute Platten und Songs. Band des Jahrzehnts 1 Gleichzeitig die beste und wichtigste Band des Jahrzehnts waren für mich die Libertines. Gerade einmal zwei Alben hat die Band benötigt, um unsterblich zu werden. Diese zwei Alben hatten es dafür aber in sich - kein [...]
Filed under: News , Holy Hell Earlier, Spinner and other news sites reported that the Monsters of Folk were working on their second album. The announcement came from a Twitter account that was purportedly run by band member Conor Oberst . Unfortunately, representatives for the band told Spinner that the account was a fake. Therefore, the announcement about a second album by the supergroup, which also includes Mike Mogis , M. Ward and My Morning Jacket 's Jim James , [...]
Filed under: News Conor Oberst has revealed through his Twitter account that supergroup Monsters of Folk have started working on their second album together. The folk rock supergroup features My Morning Jacket 's Jim James , M Ward and Mike Mogis -- as well as Oberst -- with the Bright Eyes singer tweeting that "Monsters of Folk are writing new material." Oberst added they "can't wait for you to not have to anymore (sic)." A self-titled debut album [...]
2009, das haben wir ja hier in den letzten wochen genügend durchexerziert, markierte ja auch das ende eines jahrzehnts. deshalb ging es auch in unserer jahresendwahl nicht nur um die songs und alben 1 des jahres 2009, sondern auch um jene des jahrzehnts. hier auch davon die auswertung. Band des Jahrzehnts Zwar hieß die Kategorie in der Wahl "Band oder Künstler des Jahrzehnts", den Sieg teilen sich aber genau eine Band und ein Solokünstler. Die Band ist, und das überrascht, Tocotronic . Überraschend ist [...]
This year at Hidden Track, we concocted a little experiment for our year-end Best Albums of 2009 list. Instead of picking the old fashioned way - subjectively - we opted for something a little different: a collaborative, collective list that incorporates the opinions of everybody here at HT. To begin, we devised an all-encompassing list of around 100 nominees and populated it in a Google spreadsheet - essentially anything that anybody who writes for Hidden Track liked at all, made the list. Then we invited our crew of writers to independently vote on the [...]
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I think a general consensus agrees that the impact of Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion in 2009 is the greatest to the music industry. It's a bit senseless to say that music in 2010 will be even better, but I think it's safe to say that there is a lot to look forward to. Bright Eyes. Any confession of love I have towards any Conor Oberst production would be an understatement. Maybe "Outer South" wasn't by any means a peak in Oberst's talent; however, his self [...]
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