Conor took it easy on ’06 after the double dip of Digital Ash In A Digital Urn and I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning, but Billboard reports that he’ll be back on the scene early next year with Cassadaga, a full-length featuring M. Ward, Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss, and the revelator herself, Gillian Welch. Before that comes the 3/6 release of the Four Winds EP, offering a six-song sample of the tunes from the subsequent album.
And Conor’s holiday gift to you: A free, new song! Grab it at thisisbrighteyes.com. (Thanks, juano!) Annoyingly, it’s a .wma file, which means we haven’t had a chance to hear it yet. Anyone know good programs for .wma playing/converting on Mac? Sick of this shite! We just wanna listen to our Bright Eyes in peace.
Cassadaga is out 4/10 on Saddle Creek.
UPDATE: Who needs .wma when you got MP3? (Thanks, Anthony!)
Enjoy the brass.
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I just get done with my defense of Silent Shout, not like it needs it, to find a post about fucking Bright Eyes.
I’d be really upset if I weren’t so chilly and European.
Actually, I’m from Omaha.
Zing!
The news is the news, I guess.
I’ll be ducking Creekers in about five days.
Those mopey indierock staredowns followed by a quick looking-down upon making eye contact have become a home-for-Xmas tradition at the Niner and the Bruddahs.
yeah if someone could get this in non wma format that would be glorious.
Conor must feel better these days, it’s a happy sunny bright song… Not the usual bright eyes sound.
I think Flip4Mac will work for converting .wma files
jumped through all the hoops to try to hear this only to have the validation fail and to be told when i retry that i’ve already used up all my plays.
this is fucking retarded.
why would you make it such a pain in the tits to listen to something for free?
major faux pas.
EasyWMA used to be freeware and now I think there is a charge.
I am also looking for a solid FLAC converter. In case you find one just hanging around.
Flip4Mac keeps telling me that’s a DRMed WMA file, so it can’t play it. Why DRM a free download? Seriously, who does that?
There is a Windows Media Player for macs i’ll have you people know
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
If you download it and add it to your itunes library, it should automatically convert it to an mp4.
Media Player Classic
use switch
here’s a link to download:
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html
use switch
here’s a link to download:
http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html
For Bright Eyes, this really isn’t bad. It’s less whiney than usual.
And iTunes converts .wma files for me..
somebody mp3 -> YSI
switch didn’t work for me.
dose anyone no what the title of brighteyes new record means or is casgada? and the few new songs ive heard well live i dunt no if theyll make the record but yea realy good i heard some teenage girl say brighteyes is getting old and boring after they heard them and thats the best thing that could happen, will ppl finaly look past his audience and see the great songwriting? i think so
when i use itunes to try and convert it, it states that it cant because its a protected file. did anyone get an mp3 of this yet?
Flip for Mac says it is a protected file when I try to play it in Safari. Tried to open it with Windows Media Player in Firefox–no go.
Found this on Saddle Creek’s message board:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4cmyq4
for the record, this isn’t new: it’s actually from the January 2005 “Wide Awake” tour (previously titled “Karat/Diamond”).
(NPR hosted the full DC gig, with this included; also found a demo on the “Bright Eyes” myspace page, which I’ll post if there’s a significant desire.)
Guess we can also expect re-titled studio recordings of “I Must Belong Somewhere,” “Hell is Coming, Hell is Here,” and “Soul Singer in the Session Band,” among others…
(NB: not a brighteyes fanboy, just an mp3 aficionado.)
thanks for the link anthony. i like it
actually, “soul singer…” is a cover and thus it would be really strange to retitle it.
Who sings the original ‘soul singer in the session band’? I had no idea it was a cover.
‘Endless Entertainment’ sounds pretty good, not too different from Wide Awake… just the added brass.
did anyone else notice that thisisbrighteyes.com links to a mailing list site hosted by Universal? I was just watching “Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek” last night, and I thought the Omaha gals/dudes weren’t going to get involved with the majors…?
did anyone else notice that thisisbrighteyes.com links to a mailing list site hosted by Universal? I was just watching “Spend an Evening With Saddle Creek” last night, and I thought the Omaha gals/dudes weren’t going to get involved with the majors…?
is the song too “happy” for anyone else? x
“Soul Singer in the Session Band” is not a cover. Don’t know where you get your information.
Haha it made me laugh when that person said “Conor seems a little happier, it’s a sunny song” The first words are “My seratonin’s rationed, I’m coughin’ I kinda got the blues”
Haha it made me laugh when that person said “Conor seems a little happier, it’s a sunny song” The first words are “My seratonin’s rationed, I’m coughin’ I kinda got the blues”
I have an old-school conversion solution (i still use OS9 – 9.2 – on my home Mac, so I still don’t have fancy unzipping software either… I do that at work!
For streams or anything else non-MP3 you’d like to have for posterity (burning),
You can just hook up audio out to audio in with a small 1/8-in. cable – which technically makes the file DAD … then convert the AIF or full-sized file back to MP3 in iTunes.
Happy holidays!
I used LimeWire to download this song, and I’ve been browsing their search feature for a while, trying to find leaks of this new album and EP. I’m really glad at least one song has already made it, because the anticipation is killing me, and it’s still a couple months away from release.
I like the song, but I hope this is just a B-side from the “Wide Awake” sessions, because it sounds so much like that style, and I don’t want to hear another album that sounds exactly like that one. He’s been able to expand his style with each album, and I don’t want this one to be any different, but then again, what is it to me?
i want the EP to leak so bad!
get a fucking pc and enjoy the god damn song
theres a presale on thisisbrighteyes.com
and i was wondering if anyone had the password for it?
i never recieved it
This is off of the new upcoming album. Bright Eyes will release the “Four Winds” EP March 6th, 2007, followed by the new full-length album “Cassadaga” due out on April 10th. The new record features the usuals- Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott- as well as guest appearances by artists like Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss.
conor is the most genius musician/somgwriter and singer ever.hes the most amazind and no one is ever going to top that.
The only reason you criticize him is because he isnt afraid to be different and he does whatever he wants with his music.thats why hes so incredible =]]
oh and Soul Singer in a Session Band is on Cassadaga
if you want to convert anything then just use this site. it converts everything. http://media-convert.com/