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by Sean Adams
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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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. »
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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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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...»
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by James Skinner
Upfront of Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band's forthcoming new album Outer South, the band have teamed up with the Causecast coalition to bring you a documentary entitled One Of My Kind. And it's free! From the horse's mouth, then:
Made by t»
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by Sean Adams
Outer South gets a UK release date and more info.... »
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by John Roberts
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
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by John Roberts
In case you hadn't noticed, DiS has been on holiday for a few weeks. Well, now we're back and raring to go. Here's our pick of the music news (and some sad goodbyes) from our time away»
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by John Roberts
In case you hadn't noticed, DiS has been on holiday for a few weeks. Well, now we're back and raring to go. Here's our pick of the music news (and some sad goodbyes) from our time away»
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by Luke Slater
Those lovely people over at Wichita Recordings have released a 15-track digital sampler featuring some of their favorite artists past and present, all for absolutely no cost at all. Yup, free»
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by Mike Diver
The End Of The Road Festival acts as something of a marker each year, indicating that the festival season in the UK is as good as up, and you've one weekend left to party in a field. And now you can do that partying for nowt»
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by Dean Samways
Bright Eyes star Conor Oberst has made his new, self-titled solo album available to all via a stream on his website»
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by Mike Diver
Conor Oberst is to tour with his Mystic Valley Band in the summer, in support of the release of Conor Oberst in August»
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by Kev Kharas
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, as well as Dirty Three, will co-headline the Friday night at this year’s End of the Road Festival»
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by Kev Kharas
Bright Eyes man Conor Oberst will release his first solo album for 13 years in August»