Twelve years ago, Conor Oberst’s band Bright Eyes released two albums on top of each other that defined the cultural moment — the bombastic and emo-tinged folk record “I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning” and ...

Indie Rock Icon, 45, Participates in (And Loses) His Own Lookalike Contest originally appeared on Parade. Which is more cringe, as they say: showing up to your own lookalike contest, only to find out ...

Conor Oberst has had quite the year. Last September, he and his longtime bandmates, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, released their 11th studio album as Bright Eyes, Five Dice, All Threes. That marked ...

The intriguing if uneven The People’s Key may or may not be the final Bright Eyes release—Conor Oberst seems uncertain himself—but it nicely charts Oberst’s trajectory: Specifically, it displays ...

There was a time when Conor Oberst wrote, recorded and released songs compulsively. Starting his first band and founding a record label at age 13, melodies and lyrics came out in a torrent of albums, ...

UPDATE: Terrible Records has updated their SoundCloud to clarify the fact that it was not, in fact, Conor Oberst (the page now reads “Connor Oburst”) who stopped by the studio to cover “Drunk in Love.

Joanie Faircloth, a woman who accused former Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst of raping her in December of last year, issued a notarized retraction and apology online today. "The statements I made ...