Bright Eyes
L.A. Burning, West Coast Concert Picks June 20th To 26th
Brandi Carlile is at the Greek Theatre for two nights
Best Of 2022: Songs Alphabetically By Artist Through April 5th, 2022
Vince redeems himself after a bad set at MSG
Best Of 2022: Songs Alphabetically By Artist Through February 28th
the month of the solo man
The Earliest Bird: Top New Recorded Release 2-4-22 – 2-10-22, Bright Eyes “Companion” Recordings
yet based around a teen dreaminess of depression
Best Of 2022: Songs In Order Of Preference Through January 31st
you are looking at 372 songs by the end of the year
Bright Eyes At Forest Hills Stadium, July 31st, 2021, Reviewed
the worst I’ve seen Bright Eyes
Paul Simon Has Sold His Entire Catalog, NBC News Tries To Pick Him Apart
‘He’ll still end up a historical footnote to Dylan.’
The Other 1%, How Music Streaming Mirrors Our Very Unequal Society
approximately 1% have received 90 percent of listeners’ plays
The Earliest Bird: August 21st Top Pick Is Bright Eye’s “Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was”
I was as happy as I’ve been to hear from Conor in over a decade
Press Releases From June 2020: Here Are The Artists
‘Look up at that Everest Look down in that Mariana Trench’
Live Through This: rock nyc’s Top Concert Picks For the Week Of June 15th, 2020
you’re always better till you’re worse
Bands That Picked The Wrong Year For Their Comeback?
it has been the year the music was canceled
Press Releases From May 2020: Here Are The Artists
News songs from Bright Eyes, Cigarettes After Sex, Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton
‘Forced Convalescence’: Bright Eyes’ New Song Navigates Between Mundanity And Epiphany
could not have found a better title
A Quarantine In Lyrics
plenty of emotions and mindsets to explore
Rescheduled Concerts? We May Be Waiting For Longer Than We Think
‘I really want to tell them to reschedule for March or April in 2021’
StubHub Is In Big Trouble And More On Concert Cancelations
they have ‘furloughed as much as 67% of their workforce’
Bright Eyes “Persona Non Grata” Reviewed (Stream It Here)
Please, God, let there be better than this coming up
Bright Eyes Are Back: 2020 Dates Announced
2020 is a year of milestones for the band
Some Girls Belong To Some Songs
Sure, songs remind you of times and places but does it remind you of some girls. For me I tend to let the girl dictate to me the song and I don’t mean our song, she might not even know it is our song, but somethings a song and a girl will come together…. Here is five such times.
Conor Oberst "Hundreds of Ways" Reviewed
It’s so positive, and his classic, iconic wavery voice is incredibly prominent and I love it. “There are hundreds of ways to get through the day, there are hundreds of ways, so just find one.” He’s releasing a solo record on May 20th, and it’s going to follow this more country-tinged direction.
We Take A Look At Marie Lynn's IPod!
On the phone a coupla days ago I asked Marie what she was listening to and in response she sent me her most played list off her Ipod. “When I want to play music where I know I’m gonna love every song, I play this”, she explained. “These are the songs I never get tired of.”
Hear Ye: What rock nyc is listening to 12-24-13
Home For The Holidays – Perry Como – This one takes me back some eight years where a good friend used to sing this for me every Christmas, it is a sweet song isn’t it? – A
An Abundance of Rock Christmas Songs
The rock Christmas album I remember best is A Very Special Christmas, which celebrated its 25th anniversary a couple of years ago. Everyone was playing it on Christmas 1987, even my mother-in-law.
rock nyc Top Songs w-o 12-09-13
Not much of a week for new material, indeed nothing actually made it and that’s a first outside of a Christmas or New Year’s week. And what there is tends to be there because of a concert I’ve seen or am seeing, except for two hit singles!
Bright Eyes "A Christmas Album" Reviewed
What Bright Eyes understands absolute these timeless songs is that they bring with them their own memories and 12 years after they are recorded, they bring with them the memories of memories; like the memories of childhood and lost loves.
9-11Transmogrified
The victims of, and the remains of the victims of, 9-11-01 did not lend themselves to what amounts to a form of anthropomorphism: essentially, changing their character to make them what Springsteen needed them to be in order to fit into his true blue collar tableau
Hear Ye On Spotify: what rock nyc is listening to 11-15-13
it is elegiac and heartbroken, it tears at the political fabric, and it tears at God, only to extoll us to “rise up” like the fire people rising through that tower forever upwards to eternity – A
Bright Eyes’ A Christmas Album Wide Release For The Downtrodden
There is a fine line between being a deep thinker and a drag. Generally I would let any Bright Eyes new slip past, its not my scene and if you have nothing nice to say don’t say anything at all (do you really think I subscribe to that?!)
The Maria Taylor Interview: "I Married A Republican" And Other Stories From The Deep South
“It was kind of difficult also to write because in the past I would always write when I was sad, it was just therapy for me. Sometimes I would even put myself in a position to get hurt so that I could write…”
Hear ye: What rock nyc is listening to 10-20-13
Every Single Night – Fiona Apple – This is the other half of Fiona. Fiona as nursery rhyme singer, skipping merrily down the path of weirdness before losing it again – A