Who: Bright Eyes on the Coachella Stage In 3 or Fewer Words: Doctor My Eyes? I’ll Remember This Until: Conor Oberst kicks it up a gear. Conor’s conundrum: Pushing forward vs. pushing product: There’s something to be said for not using the sacred ground of Coachella as a platform to sell a new record. But […]
As frontman of Omaha indie-rock quintet Neva Dinova, Jake Bellows made three albums of uncommonly poignant, dreamy folk music – two for the L.A. based Crank! label and one for Saddle Creak. He also collaborated with Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst on 2004’s stellar “One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels,” expanded and re-released last year. Now […]
[Here begins my meager attempt to catch up on the myriad local releases stacked on my desk:] Sea Wolf, “White Water, White Bloom” (Dangerbird) – Alex Brown Church’s sophomore album is the like the second date with that person you were positively giddy over after the first outing. Then, after all the preening and anticipation, […]
The first music from supergroup Monsters of Folk has emerged – the quartet is giving away a song from its forthcoming self-titled album (out Sept. 22 on Shangri-La Music) as a free download. The foursome, including Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and singer-songwriter M. Ward, began their collaboration […]
