Though harmonious Swede sisters First Aid Kit first established notoriety through a viral video, their first two releases on Wichita Records showcased a group rapidly improving and growing more…   Read Story »

If you're into Conor Oberst's work, you've likely heard "Shell Games" and “Haile Selassie" -- and maybe those 30 second samples -- but today the tease is over: Stream The People's Key (2/15, Saddle…   Read Story »

Bright Eyes's Conor Oberst told the Omaha World-Herald back in 2009 that he'd do just one more album under the Bright Eyes name in 2010 before retiring it. The People's Key sounds like that album,…   Read Story »

In his open letter to an Arizona promoter about SB1070 and the state boycott, Conor Oberst mentioned a similar law passing in Fremont, Nebraska. Writes Oberst: Our situation requires immediate legal…   Read Story »

Conor Oberst is all grown up -- after listening to Monsters Of Folk you might even think he's your dad -- but Omaha's favorite indie-rock son still slides into his Bright Eyes angst rather easily.…   Read Story »

The original collaboration record One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels came out back in 2004, but the groups reunited last fall to write and record new songs at Mike Mogis's Omaha studio. The ten-track album…   Read Story »

The last time a video featured Conor Oberst in a public performance period piece, he was getting clobbered by trash and tomatoes. But that was before he and Mogis recruited Yim Yames on drums and M.…   Read Story »

In a very special Halloween edition of the 'Gum Drop, David "Moose" Adamson, aka Jookabox, told us "Evil Nite" -- "a song about the infection taking hold of a pure soul in limbo" -- is an early…   Read Story »

Conor Oberst, M. Ward, Jim James, Mike Mogis, and Centro-matic's Will Johnson donned their best late-night suits and played Seattle's Paramount Theatre last night. Photographer Laura Musselman was on…   Read Story »

Monsters Of Folk are four dudes better known for other projects, they are the Them Crooked Vultures of the NPR-section of contemporary music, they are like the Traveling Wilburys but not as iconic,…   Read Story »