Bright Eyes, The Shins and Ryan Adams also feature on 'Live From Nowhere Near You'

Forget the imagined death metal drums, “High Hawk Season” offers the most interestingly left-field arrangement on the Mountain Goats’ All Eternals Deck. Listen: The Mountain Goats – “High Hawk Season” All Eternals Deck is out via Merge. They’re on the road, occasionally with B...

The next single from 'The People's Key' will be 'Jejune Stars'

The platitude-filled “Jejune Stars,” from Bright Eyes’ latest album The People’s Key, gets a video full of fireworks and sparklers. Conor Oberst’s band plays in front of the light show, in silhouette. It seems to fit the song’s title: it’s beautiful, but kinda empty. The video...

A new two-day festival, Music To Know, launches this August in East Hampton, New York with appropriate headliners Vampire Weekend and Bright Eyes along with Cold War Kids, Matt & Kim, Chromeo, Tame Impala, Ra Ra Riot, and M. Ward, among others. Vampire Weekend’s appearance is one of their few planned shows this year. Take [...]