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Monsters of Folk Show Off Killer Chops at Marathon Gig in L.A.

Photograph by Autumn De Wilde Monsters of Folk played a monster-sized set last night at L.A.’s Greek Theatre, running through 35 songs in just under three hours — with no opener and no intermission — in support of the indie-rock supergroup’s self-titled debut, which came out about a month ago. The Monsters comprise My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James; singer-songwriter (and She & Him guy) M. Ward; and Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, both of Bright Eyes, and at the Greek the band’s set alternated

Published: 2009-10-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live Shows, Rock News

New Reviews: Conor Oberst, St. Vincent, New York Dolls and More

Leading the charge of new releases this week is Conor Oberst, who once again drops his Bright Eyes moniker for his second album in two years, Outer South. Backed by the Mystic Valley Band, Outer South finds Oberst sharing songwriting duties for the first time in his prolific career, resulting in an album that’s more freewheeling and adventurous than its folk-rock predecessor. Among the highlights on Outer South, which earned a three-and-a-half star review in Rolling Stone, is the Eagles-esque “S

Published: 2009-05-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Single Minded: Killers Take on Bright Eyes, Plus Nirvana, Wu-Tang Covers

Photo: Arnold/WireImage The Killers, “Four Winds” [Bright Eyes Cover] The Killers breathe life into this stodgy Bright Eyes moaner, finally joining two of rock’s most confusing lyricists in one spectacular song. Various Artists, Nirvana Covers [Covers] It’s never too early for nostalgia! Artists from the Liars to, uh, Local H alternately celebrate and defile the legacy of rock’s last great game-changers. El Michels Affair, “C.R.E.A.M.” [Wu-Tang Clan Cover] New York soul band the El Michels Affai

Published: 2009-04-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Single Minded

Bright Eyes Sells Lots of Albums, New “Shrek” Tunes Likely to Amuse and More

Nevermind the fact that this last week was a very slow one in terms of album sales, it’s still cool that Bright Eyes scored a super high Number Four debut on the charts, moving 58,354 copies of the band’s new album Cassadaga. Congrats Conor! Some potential jurors in the Phil Spector murder trial are admitting that they have preconceived prejudice against the producer. “Honestly, I think he did it,” one woman said during jury selection. “I think I’m a fair pe

Published: 2007-04-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Daily News: In Brief

News Ticker: Weezer, NIN, Conor Oberst and Radiohead

Having already covered the Band and Talk Talk, Weezer will attempt songs by R.E.M., Gary Numan and the Psychedelic Furs for the B sides of the “Pork & Beans” single. Nine Inch Nails will release physical copies of their new album The Slip on July 22nd. Only 200,000 numbered copies will be distributed in the U.S., each with an accompanying DVD. Two songs from Bright Eyes‘ Conor Oberst’s upcoming solo album, “Danny Callahan” and “Souled Out!!!,” are now streaming on the singer/songwriter’s website. A fan-made, Radiohead-approved documentary Follow Me Around is now up on YouTube. The film documents Radiohead’s journey through Spain and Portugal in 2002 as they road-tested material from Hail to the Thief.

Published: 2008-06-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

News Ticker: Richie Sambora, Bright Eyes, AC/DC, Fergie

Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was officially charged with two counts of DUI stemming from a March 25 arrest. Sambora avoided a child endangerment charge, as his ten-year-old daughter was in the car when he was pulled over. Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst will release a new album under his own name on August 5th. Conor Oberst will be the Rolling Stone’s Best Songwriter’s first collection of songs released under his own name since 1996. AC/DC have completed recording their new, Brendan O’Brien-produced CD in Vancouver and are now in the mixing and artwork stages, says singer Brian Johnson. The band hopes to unleash the new record later this year. The reissue of Fergie’s The Duchess will feature a track (and video) with Nelly called “Party People,” as well as the theme from the upcoming Sex and the City movie “Labels or Love.” [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-04-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Hot Issue Hits and Misses: Nas and Cory Branan

Rolling Stone’s 2008 Hot Issue spotlights acts like Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend (more on that here). All week, we’ve been taking a look at Hot Issue hits and misses from the past twenty-one years (because nobody’s cultural thermometer is accurate all the time). Hit: “A savior,” we called him. “The hip-hop Proust.” Whatever insane expectations we placed on Nas, the Hot Rapper of 1994, he’s lived up to them. He’s since feuded with Jay-Z and somehow survived, he married the girl who’s milkshake brings all the boys to the yard (Kelis), and he’s one of the few rappers who has credibility enough to claim Hip Hop Is Dead. Unfortunately, Nas’ hotness didn’t rub off on his 1994 Hot List page 64 neighbor, Hot Athlete/Baltimore Orioles Jeffrey Hammonds, who finished his disappointing baseball career in 2005 after playing for six teams over the course of twelve years. Miss: In his 2002 Hot Singer-Songwriter write-up, we (and his Wikipedia page) had the audacity to mention Cory Branan in the same sentence as peers Ryan Adams and Bright Eyes. Branan’s The Hell You Say lead to appearances on David Letterman, Carson Daly and our Hot List, but it would be another four years before Branan’s sophomore album 12 Songs was released to little fanfare. Branan also probably wins the award for Hot Lister with the smallest MySpace following (7,458 fans as of right now). Related Stories: Hot Issue Hits and Misses: “OK Computer” and “Cockamamie” Hot Issue Hits and Misses: The Replacements and Wilson Phillips Hot Issue Hits and Misses: Coldplay and Enuff Z’Nuff

Published: 2007-10-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, RS 10/18/07: Kid Rock (The 2007 Hot Issue)

Bright Eyes Cancel V Festival Slot

US group Bright Eyes, comprising singer-songwriter Conor Oberst and his band, have pulled out of V Festival due to illness.In a statement po

Published: 2007-08-15 Provider: Contact Music

Mark Ronson Named VMA House Band, LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire Plan Split Single, Flaming Lips Hit the Road

Mark Ronson and his live ensemble of musicians will handle house band duties at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas on September 9th. The Dap-Kings (also known as Sharon Jones’ and Amy Winehouse’s band) will guest, along with Stu Zender of Jamiroquai and other still-to-be-announced vocalists. LCD Soundsystem and the Arcade Fire will release a split 7″ single on their upcoming joint tour featuring LCD’s cover of Joy Division’s “No Love Lost” and Arcade Fire’s version of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son” Wilco canceled two dates after guitarist Nels Cline came down with the chicken pox. The Duluth, MN, date has been rescheduled for September 4, but the band has yet to announce a new date for Winnipeg, MB. George Michael began serving one hundred hours of community service yesterday at a London homeless shelter as a part of his May sentence for driving while unfit. Michael is also prohibited from taking the wheel for two years. Bright Eyes have announced a brief U.S. fall tour, Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore has plotted a short solo outing and the Flaming Lips have added late summer and early fall dates, as well. Dates after the jump. Bright Eyes Tour Dates: 9/14 - Boise, ID (Big Easy) 9/15 - Spokane, WA (Big Easy) 9/18 - Fairbanks, AK (University of Alaska) 9/19, 20 - Anchorage, AK (University of Alaska) 9/22 - Seattle, WA (End Fest 2007) 9/23 - Eugene, OR (McDonald Theatre) 9/24 - Chico, CA (Senator Theatre) 9/29 - Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Bowl) Thurston Moore Tour Dates: 9/24 - Hoboken, NJ (Maxwell’s) 9/26 - Brooklyn, NY (Music Hall of Williamsburg) 9/27 - Boston, MA (Museum of Fine Arts) 9/28 - Princeton, NJ (Terrace Club) 9/29 - Washington, DC (Rock and Roll Hotel) 9/30 - Philadelphia, PA (Johnny Brenda’s) 10/24 - Seattle, WA (Neumo’s) 10/25 - Portland, OR (Doug Fir Lounge) 10/26 - Arcata, CA (Humboldt St. University) 10/29 - Sa

Published: 2007-08-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Bright Eyes: Recapping Conor Oberst’s Wild Seven Nights At New York’s Town Hall

Photo Credit: looserecords.com Last week Bright Eyes played seven shows in a row at New York’s famed Town Hall. The performances were billed as guest-star studded spectacles — music’s favorite prodigy all grown up and onstage with a huge band and a slew of bold names – and they didn’t disappoint. During the first show (Saturday, May 26th) Lou Reed showed up. Conor and the other twelve or so people currently playing in his band (including the inimitable former drummer from Sleater-Kinney Janet Weiss) were dressed like excitable brides in various shades of white. Reed wore black and joined the band for two songs, “Waiting For My Man” and “Dirty Blvd.” Over the course of the following six nights Oberst was joined onstage by a slew of other guests including Ben Kweller, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis and her boyfriend, singer/actor Jonathan Rice, Norah Jones and her band The Little Willies, Nick Zinner and Ben Gibbard, Ron Sexsmith and Britt Daniel. All this starpower came in addition to Conor’s opening act, the extremely impressive Gillian Welch and her man David Rawlings, and Oberst’s girlfriend and fellow Saddle Creek affiliate Maria Taylor, all of whom joined Bright Eyes onstage to lend their particular talent (haunting old school bluegrass vocals if you’re Gillian Welch, tambourine playing if you’re Maria Taylor) to various songs. Though there are a couple of noteworthy bands on Saddle Creek - the Omaha-based label Oberst helped found – its his music that defines the label, and the scene that gave birth to it. At twenty-seven, the guy is clearly tired of shouldering that burden alone and is trying to get away from images of himself as prophet/troubadour, even though that’s exactly what he is. Oberst has made longtime Bright Eyes collaborators Nate Wolcott and Mike Mogis official members of the band, and he’s gotten busy surrounding himself with other super-talented people likely to

Published: 2007-06-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: General

NoJo Takes A Risk

Norah Jones' next project is going in a different direction. It's nothing like the NoJo your mom has grown to love! The multiple Grammy winner has long explored side projects, one of them being a band called El Madmo and they just signed with indie king Conor Oberst's (aka Bright Eyes) label, Team Love. El Madmo's album will [...]

Published: 2008-04-07 Provider: PerezHilton Keywords: Music Minute

robbie williams - you know me - video

good morning and happy friday! earlier this week i got a copy of the new robbie williams' album - his eighth studio release - reality killed the video star (which will be available here in the US on tuesday, november 17th) and i'm really digging it - i've always had a thing for mr. williams - he's super adorable (especially back in the day when he was part of boy band take that) i'm such a sucker for dark hair and bright blue eyes plus he's got a sexy hairy chest! below is his brand new video fo

Published: 2009-11-13 Provider: Popbytes