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Merge Records turns 20 this year and the celebration is well underway. Last week we told you about the five-day summer fest in North Carolina with Superchunk, Spoon, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Destroyer, and others. If that's a party you can't attend, there are some birthday souvenirs you can enjoy without leaving home. Namely 20 Years of Merge Records: THE COVERS!, one of two CDs from the subscription-based SCORE! box you can now buy separately. The tracklist is wow.Continue reading Shins, Bright Eyes, National Cover Merge Classics...
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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 career and various other enterprises. But at the beginning of the year, Bright Eyes announced their big return. By now,…
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Bright Eyes teased another single from their new album yesterday by tweeting out the coordinates 17°33'29"N 142°00'03"E. This is where you'll find the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench on Earth, located about 200 kilometers east of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The day before, they promised details on that LP "very...
submitted by Nick May 27th 2020 02:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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 when he made that record. Over the years, his band has gone through a bunch of different permutations, triumphs, and stretches of inactivity. Brig...
submitted by Nick Mar 24th 2020 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Bright Eyes were supposed to be playing their first comeback show last night in Japan. Thanks to the pandemic that has essentially ground live music to a halt worldwide, that didn't happen. The good news is that the band's reunion is progressing nonetheless today with the release of their first new song since 2011's The…


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