Bright Eyes

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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...

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...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

...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

...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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...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

...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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