Bright Eyes’ new album is a sound and word collage: confessional yet opaque, intimate yet anthemic — dense and dizzying and dark, yet catchy and engaging. “Five Dice, All Threes,” which will be ...

On the day Nate Walcott phoned us from Los Angeles, there was a nerve-wracking wind kicking up ashes from the recent wildfires. Walcott, a trumpeter and pianist who is one-third of the band Bright ...

Following an almost decadelong hiatus, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, aka Bright Eyes, revived the popular indie-rock band they formed in the late 1990s. Noted for their melancholy, ...

Mike Mogis, Conor Oberst, and Nate Walcott of Bright Eyes (Photo: Nik Freitas) As any Memphian knows, there are advantages to being a land-locked city far away from the coastal metropoles of money and ...

Bright Eyes songwriter/frontman Conor Oberst is recalling his initial reaction to Donald Trump’s election last November. In the wake of the regime change, Bright Eyes formed the Poison Oak Project, a ...

Bright Eyes are back with a new EP that serves as a soft accompaniment to last year’s Five Dice, All Threes. Kids Table is out September 26 via Dead Oceans. The indie-rock band has also shared the new ...

Bright Eyes’ new album is a sound and word collage: confessional yet opaque, intimate yet anthemic — dense and dizzying and dark, yet catchy and engaging. “Five Dice, All Threes,” which will be ...

Bright Eyes' new album is a sound and word collage: confessional yet opaque, intimate yet anthemic -- dense and dizzying and dark, yet catchy and engaging. "Five Dice, All Threes," which will be ...