Bright Eyes

Watch Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst Reunite Better Oblivion Community Center

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2024

By most accounts, boygenius is the superior supergroup that Phoebe Bridgers is a part of — but man, I really liked that Better Oblivion...

Bright Eyes Were Part of an Answer on 'Jeopardy!' (and No One Got It Right)

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2023

Like Of Montreal and Nickelback before them, Bright Eyes were a question on Jeopardy! Evidently, the participants never went through an emo...

Bright Eyes' Toronto Show Made Despair Fun, Sort Of

History, November 9

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2022

"We're going to play a song I wrote when I was 15, and I just turned 64, so…" Conor Oberst told the crowd in Toronto, before trailing off a...

Bright Eyes Announce Reissue of First Three Albums, Share Re-Recordings with Waxahatchee and Phoebe Bridgers

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2022

Bright Eyes have announced a reissue of their first three albums: 1998's A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 and Letting O...

Bright Eyes Cover Vic Chesnutt's "Flirted With You All My Life"

PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2021

Having returned from a nine-year hiatus last summer with the release of Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, Conor Oberst, Mike Mog...

Bright Eyes Get Phoebe Bridgers and Flea for New Song "Miracle of Life"

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2020

Bright Eyes are back with some new content, and for a good cause. Conor Oberst and co. have shared the new track "Miracle of Life" for Plan...

Pearl Jam, Feist, PUP, Fleet Foxes Hop on 'Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy Vol. 2'

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2020

The second instalment in musicians' efforts to save American democracy ahead of the U.S. election, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of Amer...

Bright Eyes' Apocalyptic Warnings Don't Have Much Bite on 'Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was'

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2020

Bright Eyes' press materials describe the group as "a project whose friendship is at the core" — except that's not the relationship listene...