Conor Oberst News

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Desaparecidos to play the UK for the very first time

Like many DiS readers, I absolute adored Desaparecidos' (fronted by Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes) party-political-Pixies-pop of Read Music / Speak Spanish, when it was released back in 2002. A decade passed, and they never came to the UK?! So they seemed like the perfect band for this Detour idea, and lo! the DiS community agreed. Within 48 hours, 50 people had pledged to buy tickets, and Songkick contacted their management, and now, after a 10 year wait, a gig is happening. What was just a nice idea is now a reality, with tickets now on sale and a poster and everything: »

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Bright Eyes to retire (moniker)

News by Sean Adams

Yesterday, The Omaha World-Herald, spoke to Robb Nansel, who runs Bright Eyes' label, Saddle Creek and he made this grand confirmation about a final Bright Eyes album. »

M.Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Jim James to release album as Monsters Of Folk

News by Luke Slater

Yes, the rumours are TRUE. M.Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Jim James have all clubbed together to make an album. Their band: Monsters Of Folk, their album: Monsters Of Folk. Like Monsters of Rock y'see, but replacing one genre for another. The aweso»

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Spotifriday #2 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist

News by Luke Slater

Roll up, roll up! It's our second weekly Spotifriday and this is your second 'This Week on DiS' in a musical playlist, via the medium of Spotify. A bit more of a 'short and sweet' one this week, but we've Mr Lukowski has already done an ATP playlist and we've done the Great Escape one, too. So here it is...»