New Year. The best for me and BWC, all thanks to everyone of you. Here’s to another great year of music. Bring it on 2012. MP3 // FLOWERS FOREVER – HAPPY NEW YEAR MP3 // CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – NEW YEARS KISS MP3 // DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE – NEW YEARS DAY MP3 [...]

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steadfast readers of BWC will probably note my musical obsession with conor oberst. i’ve spent my entire saturday thus far scouring the internet, trying to make sure that there’s no Bright Eyes song I don’t have in my library. I was actually surprised at the list of songs i didn’t have nor had i heard [...]

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Bright Eyes and First Aid Kit will be leading off Cool for School: For the Benefit of the Lunchbox Fund, a new compilation benefiting The Lunchbox Fund, an organization which provides meals for South African High Schools. I’ve always had a thing for Bright Eyes songs led by keys, especially when they’re this electronically influenced. [...]

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Just about broke my WTF meter posting this one. Who would have thought that one of Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst’s musical hero’s would be Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello? Not only that, the two playing Bright Eyes songs together on stage is just mind-bending. Conor a searing rendition of “Arienette” before breaking [...]

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Leighton from Lydia and The Cinema pulled out this cover of one of the greatest love songs of all-time at a recent solo show. Check him out doing a spot-on cover of the Bright Eyes classic “First Day of My Life”.

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