Bright Eyes
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St. Jerome's Auckland Laneway Festival...and musician from Austin, Texas, has a developed a cult following, inspiring performances from Kurt Cobain, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Bright Eyes and a legion of other indie artists. Johnston has translated his lifetime battle with the demons... In this article: Auckland, Sarah Blasko, Daniel Johnston, The Phoenix Foundation, Nine Inch Nails, MGMT, New Zealand, and New York |
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all about jazz | 1 day ago
Monsters of Folk: Monsters of Folk
...which they do it, sharing all songwriting credits and rotating amongst themselves on all the instruments they play. Mike Mogis (a member of Bright Eyes with Oberst) is formally the drummer, but also supervises the technical side of the work...
In this article: M. Ward, Jim James, Mike Mogis, Conor Oberst, DVD, She and Him, Zooey Deschanel, and My Morning Jacket
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Houston Chronicle | 1 day ago
CD review: David Rawlings' first solo album has loose charm
...To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High), a song he helped Ryan Adams record a decade ago. And he finds common swelling tension in Bright Eyes' Method Acting and Neil Young's Cortez the Killer, here presented as a smart medley. It'd...
In this article: David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Cortez the Killer, Ryan Adams, Neil Young, and Houston Chronicle
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The Australian | 4 days ago
A very particular player
...troubadour Ryan Adams, appeared on the latter's first album Heartbreaker. And the lengthy centrepiece to the album is a version of Bright Eyes' Method Acting that evolved into a cover of Neil Young's Cortez the Killer. The medley is...
In this article: Gillian Welch, Nashville, Heartbreaker, Time, Epiphone, Trademark, and Cortez the Killer
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Athens Banner-Herald | 5 days ago
Dave Rawlings: The man in the machine
...mark on the record as possible, even when it came to the two cover songs - "The Monkey and the Engineer" by Jesse Fuller, and a medley of Bright Eyes' "Method Acting" coupled with Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer." Bright Eyes might seem...
In this article: Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Cortez the Killer, and Conor Oberst
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LiveDaily News | 6 days ago
Bonnaroo dates announced
...The White Stripes, Norah Jones, Jack Johnson, Kings of Leon, Matisyahu, TV on the Radio, The Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, Common, Bright Eyes, Death Cab For Cutie and Against Me! The festival also has begun to feature top-notch...
In this article: Against Me!, Matisyahu, Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, Al Green, Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Bruce Springsteen
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Independent.co.uk - Music | 7 days ago
Monsters Of Folk, Coal Exchange, Cardiff
...sonic blowouts, complete with rampant analogue echo, as quiet bits. Not that the rather flippant name of this ensemble, made up of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, M Ward and the (unbilled) drummer...
In this article: M Ward, God, Cardiff, Coal Exchange, Mike Mogis, Traveling Wilburys, and Jim James
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 7 days ago
Album review: Dave Rawlings
...empathetic gem, To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is Too Be High), was written with Ryan Adams, and elsewhere Rawlings sensitively splices Bright Eyes' Method Acting and Neil Young's Cortez The Killer into one brooding epic. In order to post...
In this article: Gillian Welch, Cortez the Killer, and Neil Young
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IGN Music | November 18, 2009
The New Supergroups
...is what makes them memorable. Pulling together the talents of M. Ward, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk's recently released self-titled album is, in gaming terms, the Orange Box...
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Wales Online | November 15, 2009
Music: Music preview: Monsters of Folk, Coal Exchange, Cardiff
...gigs that will be written in the venue's annals. Monsters Of Folk is a supergroup featuring indie darling Conor Oberst and his Bright Eyes band mate Mike Moggis, as well as Jim James from My Morning Jacket and M. Ward, the Portland...
In this article: Cardiff, Coal Exchange, Monsters, M. Ward, Rough Trade Records, Jim James, Conor Oberst, and My Morning Jacket
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New Yorker: Everything | November 01, 2009
Goings on About Town: Night Life
...74th St. (800-745-3000)-Nov. 8: Five years ago, the indie-rockers Jim James, of My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, of Bright Eyes, and the singer-songwriter M. Ward went on tour together. Since then, they've adopted the name...
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Description from Wikipedia:
Bright Eyes is an American band consisting of singer-songwriter/guitarist Conor Oberst, multi-instrumentalist/producer Mike Mogis, 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 distributed by Sony Corporation. In 2004, the singles "Lua" and "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)" took the top two spots of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Sales chart within two weeks of their simultaneous release.
- Name:
- Bright Eyes
- Origin:
- Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Years Active:
- 1995 – present
- Current members:
- Former Members:
- See below
- Associated With:
- Genre:
- Indie folk
- Record Label:
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- Polydor
- Saddle Creek
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