Earlier this year, the great Omaha indie rock institution Bright Eyes started teasing a comeback on social media. This is a bit different from the standard band-reunion teaser, since Bright Eyes has always just been Conor Oberst and whoever else is around. But Oberst has been working under his own name for years now. He's…

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Bright Eyes are back. Conor Oberst's massively popular and influential indie rock/folk/emo project has been inactive since touring behind 2011 swan song The People's Key. In the interim, Oberst has released a number of solo records, revived his punk band Desaparecidos, opened a bar in his native Omaha, and teamed with Phoebe Bridgers to release&...

About ten years ago, Lisa Loeb performed a cover of Bright Eyes‘ "First Day of My Life" at her friend’s wedding. She recorded it a year later for their anniversary, but has only now shared the studio-recorded cover with the world. Back in April, Loeb released a new version of her breakthrough 1994 smash hit…

Omaha synth-punk were a key part of the early-'00s electroclash wave, and they were also a key part of the early-'00s Saddle Creek wave that also brought us their buddy Bright Eyes. These two waves should've been fundamentally opposed to one another -- moving in opposite directions across the ocean -- and yet there the…