Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes' Toronto Show Made Despair Fun, Sort Of

History, November 9

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2022

"We're going to play a song I wrote when I was 15, and I just turned 64, so…" Conor Oberst told the crowd in Toronto, before trailing off a...

Bright Eyes Announce Reissue of First Three Albums, Share Re-Recordings with Waxahatchee and Phoebe Bridgers

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2022

Bright Eyes have announced a reissue of their first three albums: 1998's A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 and Letting O...

Bright Eyes Cover Vic Chesnutt's "Flirted With You All My Life"

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2021

Having returned from a nine-year hiatus last summer with the release of Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, Conor Oberst, Mike Mog...

Bright Eyes Get Phoebe Bridgers and Flea for New Song "Miracle of Life"

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2020

Bright Eyes are back with some new content, and for a good cause. Conor Oberst and co. have shared the new track "Miracle of Life" for Plan...

Pearl Jam, Feist, PUP, Fleet Foxes Hop on 'Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy Vol. 2'

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2020

The second instalment in musicians' efforts to save American democracy ahead of the U.S. election, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of Amer...

Bright Eyes' Apocalyptic Warnings Don't Have Much Bite on 'Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was'

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2020

Bright Eyes' press materials describe the group as "a project whose friendship is at the core" — except that's not the relationship listene...

Bright Eyes Detail New Album 'Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was'

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2020

Conor Oberst and his Bright Eyes boys have shared three songs in the last few months — "Persona Non Grata," "Forced Convalescence" and "One...

Bright Eyes Deliver New Song "One and Done"

PUBLISHED May 27, 2020

Bright Eyes are back with yet another new song, marking Conor Oberst and co.'s third from their upcoming album. Right now, you can dig into...