Latest Release
- SEP 20, 2024
- 13 Songs
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning · 2005
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning · 2004
- Five Dice, All Threes · 2024
- Five Dice, All Threes · 2024
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning · 2005
- Five Dice, All Threes · 2024
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning · 2005
- Five Dice, All Threes · 2024
- Five Dice, All Threes · 2024
- LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground · 2002
Essential Albums
- Released alongside the electronic experiments of Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning shows off Conor Oberst’s folksy side, which had matured from fragile and volatile to surprisingly full-blooded. Occasionally joined by Emmylou Harris (whose power-in-vulnerability approach, no doubt, influenced Oberst’s own), Oberst sounds alternately personal and political, angry but openhearted. Most radiant are the ballads, especially the lovelorn “Lua” and the drunken “Land Locked Blues."
Music Videos
- 2024
- 2024
- 2024
Artist Playlists
- The indie-folk collective that introduced the world to Conor Oberst.
- The progeny and peers of the Omaha institution.
- The college rock and Americana that inspired Conor Oberst.
- The myriad dimensions of Oberst's folky indie rock.
More To Hear
- Chat with North London rapper and premiering new Bright Eyes.
About Bright Eyes
At age 13, Conor Oberst released his first album, Water, and began performing in clubs. ∙ Bright Eyes’ debut, A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, featured tracks that Oberst felt weren’t a good fit for his previous band, Commander Venus. ∙ Their album I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning made Rolling Stone, Spin, and Time’s 2005 best-of lists. ∙ The band’s music has appeared in such TV series as Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Walking Dead. ∙ Oberst is a member of two supergroups: Better Oblivion Community Center (with Phoebe Bridgers) and Monsters of Folk (with Jim James, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis). ∙ Band members Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott composed the score for the award-winning film The Fault in Our Stars. ∙ In 2003, Oberst launched the indie record label Team Love, which is home to The Felice Brothers, Jenny Lewis, and Shudder to Think.
- ORIGIN
- Omaha, NE, United States
- FORMED
- 1995
- GENRE
- Alternative