Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band stopped by letterman last night and performed one of my favorite tracks off of Outer South “spoiled”. one question for Conor though…boots?

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This past saturday, me and some friends hit up Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band in Salt Lake City at the beautiful Library Square. Luckily, the rain cleared up just in time for the outdoors show. Seeing Conor Oberst live for the third time, this was the first seeing him perform under the solo [...]

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As previously mentioned, Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Jim James and Mike Mogis are combining powers as Monsters of Folk. The band have announced the release date of their forthcoming self-titled debut.  The album will be released September 22nd.

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I’ve been waiting on this since the beginning of 2008. I’ve long thought that it was a lie, but this just made my day. Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Jim James (my morning jacket) and Mike Mogis have all combined powers (secretly as shit) to create the appropriately named supergroup “Monsters of Folk“. They will be [...]

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Nostalgia is a funny thing. It’s eerie to sit back and realize all the change that happens in the culmination of a few years. Today I spent the latter part of a painfully slow sunday at work stumbling through some old Bright Eyes videos and found the following gem of a performance from way back [...]

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