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Conor Oberst –“LAX” (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
The excellent young singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers has talked in the past about how she was a huge Bright Eyes fan growing up and how the first time she met Conor Oberst was a huge thrill. And now...
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Conor Oberst –“No One Changes”&“The Rockaways”
Over the past few months, Conor Oberst has quietly been keeping busy. He wrote the new song "LAX" for Ethan Hawke to sing in the romantic comedy Juliet, Naked. He recorded a new version of "LAX" with...
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
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Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers Release Surprise Album As Better Oblivion...
It's true: Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers have a new band together called Better Oblivion Community Center. They're performing tonight on Colbert, and their self-titled album is out now.
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Watch Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers Debut Better Oblivion Community Center...
It's here! After weeks of speculation and days of teasing, Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst have unveiled Better Oblivion Community Center, their new super-duo team-up. Their self-titled debut album is...
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Watch Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers Play Better Oblivion Community Center...
On Wednesday night, Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers teamed up under the name Better Oblivion Community Center and dropped their surprise self-titled debut album on the world. That same night, they...
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Dark Was The Night Turns 10
Indie had a big year in 2009. As the first decade of the century drew to a close, there was a slew of major releases from the genre's dominant, or very-soon-to-be-dominant, names. The year kicked off...
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Watch Phoebe Bridgers & Conor Oberst Cover The Replacements At Better...
Earlier this year, Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst teamed up to surprise-release their self-titled debut album under the name Better Oblivion Community Center. They've performed on The Late Show With...
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Watch Better Oblivion Community Center Cover The Killers’ “Human”
Better Oblivion Community Center, Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers' new band, are currently touring their debut self-titled album that came out in January. Their tour opener on Friday included a...
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Watch Better Oblivion Community Center Play “Sleepwalkin'” On James Corden
A couple of months ago, Better Oblivion Community Center announced their existence to the world, and they did it on Stephen Colbert's Late Show. The duo -- the team-up of absurdly charismatic indie...
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Watch Better Oblivion Community Center Cover Death Cab For Cutie In Seattle
Throughout their inaugural tour, Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst's supergroup Better Oblivion Community Center have been doing the thing where you cover a song each night, sometimes one relevant to...
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James Corden Confirms Conor Oberst And Milo Ventimiglia Are Not The Same Person
The internet is apparently convinced that Conor Oberst and Milo Ventimiglia are the same person. The folk-rock singer-songwriter and the Gilmore Girls/Heroes/This Is Us star look kind of alike,...
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Watch Better Oblivion Community Center Cover Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s...
Back in February -- the night of the Oscars telecast, a few weeks before Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst hit the road in support of Better Oblivion Community Center's debut album -- Bridgers tweeted...
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Bright Eyes Tease New Music, Announce First Shows In 9 Years
Earlier this year, the great Omaha indie rock institution Bright Eyes started teasing a comeback on social media. The return of the Conor Oberst-led project, which also includes Mike Mogis and Nate...
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Watch Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers Play Production Assistants In Meet The...
Meet The Conan Staff is a new mockumentary-style digital web series from the Conan writing team that purports to be a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on at the show. In its latest episode, rock...
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Watch Phoebe Bridgers Cover Conor Oberst’s “Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch)”
Thanks to terrifying extenuating circumstances, we have now reached a new golden age of artists, marooned on home quarantine, posting acoustic home-recorded covers of each other's songs. The latest...
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We’ve Got A File On You: Conor Oberst
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.
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The 1975’s Matty Healy Launches Podcast Interview Series With Brian Eno,...
The 1975 are really, finally going to release their new album Notes On A Conditional Form later this month. We won't rehash the timeline yet again, but you can catch up on all the twists and turns here...
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Christian Lee Hutson –“Get The Old Band Back Together”
Folk singer-songwriter and Phoebe Bridgers super friend Christian Lee Hutson is about to release his new LP Beginners. "I went with Beginners as the title because that’s where I feel like I am in my...
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Bright Eyes –“One And Done”
In a couple of days, Bright Eyes' tremulous, heart-wrecked landmark sophomore album Fevers And Mirrors will celebrate its 20th anniversary. (More on that one later.) Conor Oberst was a 20-year-old kid...
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Fevers And Mirrors Turns 20
Conor Oberst stared out at the audience, squinting and seething. The Black Cat in Washington, DC was maybe halfway full, and a pretty good number of the people in that room were not going to let the...
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The Story Behind Every Song On Phoebe Bridgers’ New Album Punisher
In 2017, Phoebe Bridgers released her debut Stranger In The Alps. With that album alone, she was already greeted as one of the most exciting, assured young songwriters newly on the scene. But in the...
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Watch Bright Eyes Give Their First Performance In Nine Years On Colbert
The last Bright Eyes show was at Honolulu's Hawaii Theatre, and it was in November of 2011. Since then, Conor Oberst's longtime project has been inactive, as Oberst himself has been busy with his solo...
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Premature Evaluation: Bright Eyes Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was
When you never stop singing about the apocalypse, you’re never wrong. We always feel like the world is about to blink out of existence. One day, we’ll be right. The end of days has been a lyrical...
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Bright Eyes –“Miracle Of Life” (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Earlier this year, Conor Oberst reunited his long-dormant band Bright Eyes, and they released the strong new album Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was a couple of months ago. Today, Bright Eyes...
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Christian Lee Hutson –“Strawberry Lemonade” (Prod. Phoebe Bridgers & Conor...
Earlier this year, Christian Lee Hutson released a series of covers EPs, reimagining songs by Liz Phair, Taylor Swift, ABBA, Kid Cudi, and others. Now, the Los Angeles folk singer-songwriter — who...
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Christian Lee Hutson –“Rubberneckers” (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Since the release of his 2020 album Beginners, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson has focused most of his attention on The Version Suicides, a series of covers EPs. But late last year,...
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Hear Bright Eyes’ New Re-Recordings Featuring Phoebe Bridgers & Waxahatchee
Almost one year after moving their entire catalog to Secretly Group, Bright Eyes are embarking on a massive reissue / re-recording project. Reissuing all nine of their studio albums as a “Companion”...
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Watch Bright Eyes’ Messy, Passionate, Orchestral Colbert Performance
It seems fair to say that the Bright Eyes reunion has not gone fully according to plan. Conor Oberst announced the return of his old band just before the pandemic hit, and they didn’t get to play the...
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Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst Walks Off Houston Show After Two Songs, Band...
On the right night, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst can be a truly electric, mesmerizing live performer. On the wrong night, Oberst seems like he’d love to be anywhere except up onstage. Last night in...
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Stream Bright Eyes Companion Re-Recordings Feat. Phoebe Bridgers,...
Earlier this year, Bright Eyes announced that they were undertaking an ambitious reissue and re-recording project after moving their entire catalog to Secretly Group. Over the next year, the band will...
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Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground Turns 20
There’s an extended scene in Freedom, the 2010 novel that landed Jonathan Franzen on the cover of Time, in which an aging indie rocker finds himself at a show in Washington, DC. He’s there to see “the...
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We’ve Got A File On You: Ben Gibbard
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.
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