Aug 10, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have announced a second set of album reissues, this time for the 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. Each album will be released alongside a companion EP, which mainly consist of reworkings of original album tracks. The band has shared three of these reworkings: “You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will,” (originally from Lifted), “Old Soul Song (for the New World Order),” (originally from Wide Awake) and “Gold Mine Gutted” (originally from Digital Ash). The reissues and EPs will be out on November 11 via Dead Oceans. More

Jun 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) made an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where they performed their 1998 song “Falling Out of Love at this Volume.” More

Apr 14, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) made an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where they performed the track “Dance and Sing,” from their 2020 album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was. More

Mar 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have shared a cover of Elliott Smith’s 1995 song “St Ides Heaven.” The cover will be featured on the companion EP to the upcoming reissue of Bright Eyes’ 1998 album Letting Off the Happiness, which will be out on May 27 via Dead Oceans. More

Feb 01, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have announced a reissue of their first three studio albums, A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off the Happiness, and Fevers and Mirrors. Each album will be released alongside a companion EP, which features reworkings of original album tracks. The band has shared three of these reworkings: “Falling Out of Love at This Volume,” “Contrast & Compare” (feat. Waxahatchee), and “Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh” (feat. Phoebe Bridgers). More

Dec 07, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have announced a string of tour dates for 2022. The tour will begin in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 23. The band has partnered with Plus1, and $1 from every ticket sale will be donated to the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale this Friday (Dec. 10) at 10 a.m. local time. More

Nov 04, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Christian Lee Hutson has shared a video for his new song “Strawberry Lemonade,” which was produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst. The song features backing vocals from Oberst and Sharon Silva, along with electric guitar from Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and piano/trumpet from Nathaniel Wolcott, Oberst’s fellow Bright Eyes member. More

Jun 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have announced some new summer tour dates, in what will be their first tour in 10 years. The shows go down this July and August and Lucy Dacus will support all dates. One show will also feature Japanese Breakfast and Waxahatchee will be opening another show. More

Feb 25, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have shared a cover of Vic Chesnutt’s 2009 song “Flirted With You All My Life.” It is out now via Dead Oceans. More

Oct 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 41st Songs of the Week of 2020. This week there was a second and final presidential debate that, unlike the first one, was an actual debate. More

Oct 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes have shared a new song for Planned Parenthood, “Miracle of Life,” which features backing vocals from Phoebe Bridgers, as well as featuring Jon Theodore and Flea. The song is available on Bandcamp and all proceeds from downloads, streams, and syncs will go to Planned Parenthood. More

Aug 24, 2020 By Samantha Small

It’s been a big week for Bright Eyes. Reeling from the release of their first album in nine years, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was the band (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have been a press brigade. First stop: CBS This Morning, second, SiriusXM Sessions (where they covered Thin Lizzy’s“Running Back”). More

Aug 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have released a new album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, today via Dead Oceans. It’s their first new album in nine years and now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, yesterday we posted our review of the album. More

Jun 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) are releasing a new album, Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was, on August 21 via Dead Oceans. It’s their first new album in nine years and last night the band was the musical guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, performing the new single “Mariana Trench” in what was their first performance together in nine years. More

Jun 22, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have officially announced their new album, Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was, and shared a new song from it, “Mariana Trench,” via a video for the track. More

May 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie, Samantha Small, and Julian Roberts-Grmela)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. In terms of this week’s new songs, the pickings were somewhat slim, perhaps partly because Monday was Memorial Day, meaning less new tracks of note were shared these week. But we’ve still come up with some that we liked (albeit, only a Top 9, instead of our usual Top 10). More

May 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have shared a new song, “One and Done.” It is said to be the third single from a yet-to-be-announced new album. More

May 25, 2020 By Mark Redfern

We’ve been uploading the long out of print and sold out Issue 8 to our Patreon page, one article at a time. The 2005 issue features Bright Eyes on the cover and so far we have uploaded interviews from it with Tegan and Sara, Mew, Muse, Doves, My Morning Jacket, The Walkmen, Metric, Rilo Kiley, Low, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, and more. More

May 18, 2020 By Samantha Small

Lavender Diamond have returned. The trio of Becky Stark, Steve Gregoropoulos, and Ron Regé, Jr. have shared the music video for a new song called “Look Through the Window,” their first new release in eight years. More

Apr 29, 2020 By Mark Redfern

We’re uploading the long out of print and sold out Issue 8 to our Patreon page, one article at a time each weekday. The 2005 issue features Bright Eyes on the cover and includes interviews with Tegan and Sara, Primal Scream, The Cramps, My Morning Jacket, The Dresden Dolls, Can, Supergrass, Doves, Devendra Banhart, Donovan, The Dears, Mew, The Decemberists, and much more. More

Apr 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie)

Welcome to the sixteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. More

Apr 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have shared a new song, “Forced Convalescence.” It is said to be the second single from a yet-to-be-announced new album and follows “Persona Non Grata,” a new song the band shared in March that was their first new song in nine years. More

Mar 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have shared their first new song in nine years, “Persona Non Grata.” More

Feb 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Conan O’Brien’s TBS show Conan has launched a new fake behind the scenes web series, Meet the Conan Staff, and in one episode Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers play production assistants on the show. The duo performed on Conan last year with their side-project Better Oblivion Community Center. More

Feb 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have announced a world tour, with dates in America, the UK, Europe, and Japan. They will be the band’s their first new shows in nine years. More

Jan 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have announced their first new shows in nine years. They have also signed to Dead Oceans and have been recording, with intentions to release new music this year. The band have also shared a teaser video featuring them recording in the studio with an orchestra. More

Apr 16, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) recently teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers as the new band Better Oblivion Community Center and in January they surprise released their self-titled debut album via Dead Oceans. But now Oberst has announced some solo tour dates where he will play songs from across his catalog. More

Nov 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) has shared two new songs, “No One Changes” and “The Rockaways.” More

Mar 17, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

This week we look back on foreign invasions of years gone by, plus Trump turmoil, Russian spies, Neil Young laughing at the NRA, and Conor Oberst in his President Bush bashing days. More

Dec 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Los Angeles singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers released her debut album, Stranger in the Alps, back in September via Dead Oceans. Now she has shared a video for “Would You Rather,” a song that features Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes). Oberst appears in the video too. More

Sep 29, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes is releasing a new solo album, Ruminations, on October 14 via Nonesuch. It is described as a solo acoustic album. No actual songs from the album have been shared since the album wasannounced in early August and the album isn’t due out for two more weeks, but now you can stream the whole thing below via NPR First Listen. More

Aug 03, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes has announced a new solo album, Ruminations, which is due out October 14 via Nonesuch. It is described as a solo acoustic album. Oberst recorded the album in the winter of 2016 in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, after living in New York City for a decade. More

Jul 20, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott) have announced a new box set, The Studio Albums 2000-2011, which is due out September 16 via Saddle Creek. It will be released on both vinyl and CD and includes six albums. More

Jul 12, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

M. Ward opened for Brian Wilson on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl and during his performance he brought out his old friends and collaborators Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. More

Jun 15, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

M. Ward released a new album, More Rain, back in March via Merge. Now he’s shared a video for More Rain track “Slow Driving Rain.” Carlos Foster directed the clip, which mixes footage of Ward performing the song with moody nighttime driving images. Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, who was in the supergroup Monsters of Folk with Ward, cameos as a passenger. More

Feb 16, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Earlier today Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst appeared on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. More

Aug 20, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

On Dec. 6, the Coen brothers will release their newest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, depicting a week in the life of a young folk singer living in Greenwich Village in the winter of 1961 as he struggles for his big break. More

Apr 10, 2013 By Michele Yamamoto

Ranked is our recurring series in which one of our writers takes an artist’s catalogue and ranks all their official studio albums from best to worst. The order is decided by the individual writer, rather than our editors. This time Michele Yamamoto ranks Bright Eyes. More

Jan 24, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Saddle Creek has announced this morning that it will be re-releasing six previously out of print Bright Eyes EPs and LPs on vinyl. More

Sep 20, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out more photos from Day One of ACL Music Festival 2011 in Austin, TX including Big Boi, Bright Eyes, Fool’s Gold, Cold War Kids, James Blake, Kanye West, Kurt Vile, Mavis Staples, Santigold, Smith Westerns, and Wild Beasts. More

Sep 19, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day One of ACL Music Festival 2011 in Austin, TX including Big Boi, Bright Eyes, Fools Gold, Foster the People, Futurebirds, James Blake, Kanye West, Kurt Vile, Mavis Staples, Santigold, Smith Westerns and Wild Beasts. We sent photographer Robert Redfield down to capture the action. More

Jul 19, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Bright Eyes continues to tease out tour dates. Today the west coast got the happy news that yes—they’re heading in our direction. We have the full listing. More

Jul 19, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Last week Under the Radar premiered an unreleased Ryan Adams song, “Shine Through the Dark,” and now we’re pleased to premiere a full stream of the album it’s taken from —the 64-track charity compilation Live From Nowhere Near You: Volume Two, which is out today via Greyday Records. The album features rare and unreleased tracks from the likes of Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes (featuring Spoon’s Britt Daniel), The Shins’ James Mercer, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Daniel Johnston, The Helio Sequence, Blue Giant (featuring members of Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, and Viva Voce), and much more. More

Jul 12, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Bright Eyes have announced more fall tour dates in support of their February release The People’s Key. More

Jun 15, 2011 By Laura Studarus

On July 4, Bright Eyes is unleashing a live EP—cleverly titled Live Recordings. More

Jun 09, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Bright Eyes headed out to the desert for their new video “Jejune Stars” (from recently released album The People’s Key). More

Jun 09, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Bright Eyes, St. Vincent, Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, and Wilco donate items to charity auction. Civil Wars Created Benefit to Aid Alabama. More

Apr 06, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Conor Oberst continues to take final Bright Eyes album The People’s Key to the people with additional tour dates. More

Mar 09, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

Today, the indie folk-rock outfit confirmed the dates, venues, and acts for the newly added shows to their U.S. tour. We have the details. More

Feb 25, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Before kicking off a series of US tour dates in support of the band’s seventh album The People’s Key, Bright Eyes made a television appearance yesterday to perform on Late Night with David Letterman. More

Feb 16, 2011 By Laura Studarus

There’s a lot of cross-fading and some serious emoting going on in new Bright Eyes video, “Shell Games” from upcoming album, The People’s Key. More

Feb 11, 2011 By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Under the Radar’s Winter 2011 issue is about to hit stands. The cover features Death Cab for Cutie, who gave writer Matt Fink insight into the band’s forthcoming album, Codes and Keys (due out in May). The issue also includes interviews with Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, The Dears, The Decemberists, Destroyer, The Dodos, Duran Duran,Elbow, Iron and Wine, Lykke Li, R.E.M., Telekinesis, Toro Y Moi, The Antlers, The Big Pink, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Jens Lekman, Okkervil River, Panda Bear, Vivian Girls, Anna Calvi, Porcelain Raft, Smith Westerns, Yuck, and more.

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Feb 08, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Bright Eyes include new stops to the band’s upcoming tour. More

Jan 31, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

The People’s Key, which sees Oberst straying from his recent alt-country sensibility, will stream on the NPR website until the record drops Feb. 15. More

Jan 11, 2011 By Laura Studarus

On March 2, Conor Oberst takes to the road in support of forthcoming album The People’s Key—his last album under the Bright Eyes moniker. Today, additional dates were announced. We have the full line-up. More

Dec 21, 2010 By Laura Studarus

On February 15, Conor Oberst will release The People’s Key—what may be his last album under the Bright Eyes name. Today, the first single was released. More

Dec 14, 2010 By Lauren Barbato

Bright Eyes make their first full run of U.S. shows in over three years. We have the details. More

Nov 30, 2010 By John Everhart

After an extended hiatus, Bright Eyes are back with a brand new LP titled The People’s Key due in early 2011. We have the details. More

Aug 13, 2010 By John Everhart

Fresh off last month’s Omaha benefit Concert for Equality featuring his bands Bright Eyes and Desaparecidos, Conor Oberst has lined up a short solo tour of California. We have the details. More

Nov 22, 2022 By Sean Fennell

I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is, in a lot of ways, the culmination of the early half of Conor Oberst’s career. More

Nov 22, 2022 By Sean Fennell

Bright Eyes recently released the second in a series of reissues in conjunction with their new label, Dead Oceans. More

Aug 18, 2022 By Max Pilley

This time last week, Under the Radar were in Oslo for Øya Festival. Here’s what we saw. More

May 28, 2012 By John Everhart

The year 2000, when Bright Eyes’ Fevers and Mirrors was initially released, was, in retrospect, the final vestige of an era of mystery, soon to be supplanted by Internet message board inundation and Twitter ubiquity. More

Apr 18, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Day two of Coachella 2011 offered few surprises, but plenty of solid sets, including two British bands—one reunited ‘90s legends back for another try, and the other a star-making main stage performance from a band still on their debut album. More

Feb 21, 2011 By Jim Scott

The one defining characteristic of Conor Oberst’s prolific career has been confidence. More