Bright Eyes
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Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 1 July 2000
AT THE RIPE age of 20, Conor Oberst is a little long in the tooth to be properly termed a prodigy, but his talents are ...
Bright Eyes: Letting Off The Happiness (Wichita) ***
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2001
Prequel to last year's impressive Fevers And Mirrors from Omaha wunderkind ...
Bright Eyes: Lifted, Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (Wichita)
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2002
Nebraskan boy wonder bunkers down for apocalypse. ...
Report and Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, July 2003
America's new indie-rock capital was born when a 13-year-old songsmith named Conor Oberst started putting out recordings on his brother's bedroom cassette label. Ten years ...
Bright Eyes: Northsix, Brooklyn, New York
Live Review by Will Hermes, Spin, December 2004
WHEN CONOR OBERST WAS 16, he fronted a promising, alt-rockin' band calledCommander Venus. They signed an ill-fated contract — at one unfortunate juncture, the band ...
Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning/Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, January 2005
SOMETIMES YOU can be too darn talented for your own good. Regularly described as a "boy genius", 24 year old Conor Oberst – doe-eyed self-obsessive, ...
Bright Eyes: Inside Conor Oberst (Literally!)
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
JOHN LENNON sang, "I may be a dreamer, but I’m not the only one," in 1970’s 'Imagine'. ...
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, January 2005
CONOR OBERST is an anomaly. While his hometown is famous for the two-inch Omaha Steaks that are FedEx-ed around the nation to lesser protein-endowed states, ...
Bright Eyes: Burning Like Fire
Report and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, February 2005
Bright Eyes, the sharpest act in the US today, turns his gaze from his navel to the world. ...
Bright Eyes: That Vision Thing
Interview by Stevie Chick, MOJO, April 2007
As Bright Eyes he's spent half his 27 years as the boozy Dylan of disaffected youth. On the eve of a new album, Stevie Chick ...
Bright Eyes: Radio City Music Hall, NYC
Live Review by Iman Lababedi, Rock NYC, 10 March 2011
THE LAST word we heard as we left Radio City Music Hall last night, was "Mercy", repeated twice – once by Conor Oberst and once ...
Oh, Mercy: Bright Eyes at Radio City Music Hall, NYC
Live Review by Iman Lababedi, Rock NYC, 10 March 2011
THE LAST word we heard as we left Radio City Music Hall last night, was "Mercy", repeated twice – once by Conor Oberst and once ...
see also The Faint
see also Desaparecidos
see also Monsters of Folk
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