Conor Oberst Biography

Conor Oberst is born Conor Mullen Oberst is an American singer, Songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, include Desaparecidos, The Faint previously named Norman Bailer, Commander Venus, Park Ave.

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Monsters of Folk, and Better Oblivion Community Center. Oberst was named the Best Songwriter of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine.

Conor Oberst Age

Coner Oberst February 15, 1980, in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. He is 39 years old as of 2018.

Conor Oberst Height

He measures 1.74 meters tall.

Conor Oberst Wife

Oberst got married in 2010 to Corina Figueroa Escamilla, Whom he met while recording in 2008, in Mexico.

Conor Oberst Tour

DATE	CITY	VENUE	COUNTRY
03/08/19	Tucson, AZ	Rialto Theater	United States
03/09/19	Las Vegas, NV	Bunkhouse	United States
03/10/19	San Diego, CA	Music Box	United States
03/11/19	San Luis Obispo, CA	Fremont Theater	United States
03/13/19	Los Angeles, CA	Teragram Ballroom	United States
03/14/19	Los Angeles, CA	Teragram Ballroom	United States
03/15/19	San Francisco, CA	August Hall	United States
03/16/19	Portland, OR	Doug Fir	United States
03/17/19	Seattle	Showbox	United States
03/19/19	Salt Lake City, UT	Metro Music Hall	United States
03/20/19	Denver, CO	Gothic Theatre	United States
03/21/19	Omaha, NE	The Slowdown	United States
03/22/19	Minneapolis, MN	First Avenue	United States
03/23/19	Chicago, IL	Lincoln Hall	United States
03/24/19	Chicago, IL	Lincoln Hall	United States
03/25/19	Cleveland, OH	Agora Theatre	United States
03/26/19	Pittsburgh, PA	Mr. Smalls	United States
03/28/19	Cambridge, MA	The Sinclair	United States
03/29/19	New York, NY	The Bowery Ballroom	United States
03/30/19	Brooklyn, NY	Music Hall of Williamsburg	United States
03/31/19	Providence, RI	Columbus Theater	United States
04/01/19	Brooklyn, NY	Brooklyn Steel	United States
04/02/19	Philadelphia, PA	Union Transfer	United States
04/03/19	Washington, DC	Black Cat	United States
04/04/19	Carrboro, NC	Cat’s Cradle	United States
04/05/19	Asheville, NC	Grey Eagle	United States
04/06/19	Atlanta, GA	Terminal West	United States
04/07/19	Nashville, TN	Cannery Ballroom	United States
04/09/19	Austin, TX	Stubb’s	United States
04/10/19	Dallas, TX	Trees	United States
04/12/19	Santa Fe, NM	Meow Wolf	United States
04/13/19	Phoenix, AZ	Crescent Ballroom	United States
04/29/19	Helsinki	House of Culture	Finland
05/01/19	Oslo	Rockefeller	Norway
05/02/19	Stockholm	Berns	Sweden
05/03/19	Copenhagen	Vega	Denmark
05/05/19	Berlin	Columbia Theater	Germany
05/06/19	Cologne	Kantine	Germany
05/07/19	Amsterdam	Paradiso	Netherlands
05/08/19	Antwerp	De Roma	Belgium
05/10/19	Bristol	O2 Academy	United Kingdom
05/11/19	London	O2 Shepherd’s Bush	United Kingdom
05/12/19	Manchester	The Ritz	United Kingdom

Conor Oberst Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $185 million.

Conor Oberst Lax

Conor Oberst No One Changes

Conor Oberst No One Changes Lyrics

Conor Oberst The Rockaways

Conor Oberst Ruminations

On October 14, 2016, Conor Oberst, American musician released Ruminations and it was his seventh solo studio album.

Conor Oberst Salutations

Conor Oberst released his eighth studio album Salutation On March 17, 2017, on Nonesuch Record, Ten of the tracks originally appeared on rumination in acoustic form.

Conor Oberst The Rockaways Lyrics

Conor Oberst Lax Lyrics

Conor Oberst Songs

• A Little Uncanny 2016
• Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out 2016
• Barbary Coast 2016
• Gossamer Thin 2016
• Cape Canaveral 2008
• Mamah Borthwick 2016
• Hundreds of Ways 2014
• LAX 2018
• You Are Your Mother’s Child 2014
• Zigzagging Toward the Light 2014
• Afterthought 2016
• Lenders in the Temple 2008
• You All Loved Him Once 2016
• Danny Callahan 2008
• Artifact #1 2014
• NYC – Gone, Gone 2008

Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band is the name taken by Conor Oberst and his backing band, which is composed of Nik Freitas plays guitar, Taylor Hollingsworth (guitar), Macey Taylor bass, Nate Walcott keyboards and organ, and Jason Boesel drums.

The band was formed to back Oberst on his 2008 solo album but soon evolved into a band of its own with all members singing and providing songs for 2009’s Outer South.

Conor Oberst New Song

• Dylan Thomas 2019
• Big Black Heart 2019
• Forest Lawn 2019
•  Exception to the Rule 2019
• Chesapeake 2019
• Service Road 2019
• No One Changes 2018
• The Rockaways 2018
• LAX2018
• Empty Hotel by the Sea2017
• Too Late to Fixate 2017
• Napalm 2017
• Anytime Soon 2017
• Overdue 2017

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A Brief History of Conor Oberst’s Musical Team-Ups

Though he earned a bit of a reputation as an enfant terrible during his reign as the sullen face of aughts indie rock, the truth is that Conor Oberst has always played well with others. Chalk it up to a combination of Midwestern friendliness and his predilection for leftist community-building, but Oberst has spent more than 20 years finding friends to bounce ideas off of.

His best-known — and currently dormant — group Bright Eyes had a revolving lineup (that in addition to Oberst also included multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis, and trumpet and piano player Nate Walcott), which gave him plenty of opportunities to work with pals from back home, alt-rock contemporaries, and country-music legends.

Additionally, his career is filled with side projects and one-off collaborations that have seen him team up with precocious Swedish balladeers, indietronica pioneers, and songwriters that grew up with his music. On the occasion of the self-titled release by his new outfit Better Oblivion Community Center, a full-length collaboration with supergroup specialist Phoebe Bridgers, we’ve looked back on Oberst’s history of musical team-ups.

1998: Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal

At the beginning of 1998, Oberst released his first official album as Bright Eyes, A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995–1997. For the follow-up, Letting Off the Happiness, Oberst and Mogis decamped to Athens, Georgia, to record a few songs. Like many people in the indie-rock underground of 1998, Oberst had become obsessed with Neutral Milk Hotel’s landmark portrait of time-traveling empathy In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. (He would later tell Uncut magazine that “it made me want to make better music”.) Neutral Milk Hotel went dormant for years as soon as the album was released, so drummer Jeremy Barnes had plenty of time to add his signature carnival mutant drums and accordion across the album, hinting at the expansive arrangements Oberst would soon come to favor. Kevin Barnes’s ever-morphing glam-folk outfit Of Montreal was also just getting started around this period. He showed up to play keyboards on “The Difference in the Shades” and add backing vocals to “A Poetic Retelling of an Unfortunate Seduction,” the latter a time capsule of two songwriters still figuring it out at the end of one decade before going on to help define the next.

2002: Rilo Kiley, the Faint, Cursive, and Basically Everyone in Omaha Get unlimited access to Vulture and everything else New York.
Letting Off the Happiness and its 2000 follow-up Fevers and Mirrors earned Oberst an underground following, setting the stage for a mainstream breakout for him and his label Saddle Creek. And for his breakthrough album [deep breath] Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, Oberst invited seemingly every musician from his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, to get involved. Faint lead singer Todd Baechle and Rilo Kiley ringleaders Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett provided backing vocals and choral uplift, and members of Cursive added mournful cello accents and bass and guitar buttresses. Members of the Athens-bred duo Azure Ray also dropped by to add extra orchestral accouterments. The result was a grand portrait of coming-of-age in an irony-scared, post-9/11 age that announced Oberst as a talent to watch and Omaha as the next great music incubator.

2004: Britt Daniel

The Bright Eyes catalog is stuffed with low-key EPs where Oberst stopped to catch his breath. One of the rarest (at least before the advent of digital media) was Home, Vol. 4, a four-song collaboration with Spoon frontman Britt Daniel that peaks early with “Spent on Rainy Days,” a sing-along far more ragged than the ever-fastidious Daniel normally allows himself.

2005: Emmylou Harris

Lifted earned Oberst no small amounts of “New Dylan” and “Voice of a Generation”–type accolades, which he reportedly hated. But Oberst was admirably outspoken against the Bush administration and America’s slide into endless warfare in a way that few of his contemporaries were. For his folkier follow-up I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, Oberst made a generation-crossing flex and recruited country icon Emmylou Harris to provide backing vocals on a few songs, adding world-weary, “How did it come to this?” gravitas to state-of-the-nation cardiograms “Land Locked Blues” and “We Are Nowhere and It’s Now.”

2005: Nick Zinner and Jimmy Tamborello

Perhaps a bit wary of being pigeonholed as a neo-folk troubadour, Oberst set out to prove he was just as influenced by Robert Smith as he was Elliott Smith on Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, a black-mascara-smeared journey into wheezing New Wave synths and jittery drum machines. He brought in a few ringers to help him achieve peak 120 Minutes melodrama, getting Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner to add Disintegration-worthy guitars and keyboards all over the place and Jimmy Tamborello (an electronic-music producer best known for his work with the Postal Service) to provide sighing beats on the single “Take It Easy (Love Nothing).” Oberst would repay the favor by guesting on “Breakfast in Bed,” a woozy lullaby from Tamborello’s project Dntel.

2006: Jenny Lewis, Ben Gibbard, and M. Ward

When you are constantly compared to Bob Dylan, a surface-level intellect would devise that there are two options: Run away from the comparison, or lean into it. Oberst, ever the galaxy brain, took an adjacent track, joining his fellow soldiers in The O.C. wars for the Jenny Lewis–led run-through of Traveling Wilburys’s “Handle With Care,” an ode to the travails of sweet success. But rather than covering Dylan’s screed-y section, Oberst tackles George Harrison’s resigned verse, serving up believable “seen it all in the industry” repose.

2007: All of NPR, Basically

2007 saw the release of Cassadaga, the seventh Bright Eyes album. An ambitious, orchestral album concerned with the nature of faith in a secular age, Oberst recruited singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata and members of the indie-pop group Eisley to add lush harmonies, and Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss (the best drummer indie rock has ever produced) brought her customary thunder. Cassadaga was greeted with rave reviews that further cemented Oberst as one of the top songwriters of his era. To celebrate, Bright Eyes played a week’s worth of shows at the New York venue Town Hall. He invited alt-country titans, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings, to open for him, often joining them onstage, and each night featured special guests ranging from old friends Daniels and Gibbard to singer-songwriters Steve Earle, Ben Kweller, Norah Jones, Ron Sexsmith, and even Lou Reed, proving that Oberst had the adult indie game on lock.

2009: M.Ward and Jim James

Gauzy folkie M. Ward and My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James had guested on Bright Eyes albums before and the trio had toured together. In 2009, the trio and Mogis joined together as Monsters of Folk, cutting an album of searching, experimental twang. The Roots covered album highlight “Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)” a year later.

2012: First Aid Kit

The Swedish folk-pop duo First Aid Kit grew up listening to Oberst’s music, which probably made him feel both honored and ancient. Klara and Johanna Söderberg have excelled at warm and inviting harmonies from the beginning, and Oberst fit right in when he guested on their song “King of the World.” He also had them back him up on an appropriately gentle cover of the White Stripes’ “We’re Going to Be Friends,” a charity single that was one of the last releases by Bright Eyes.

2014: Dawes

After retiring, at least for now, the Bright Eyes name, with the sleek 2011 album The People’s Key, Oberst released the rootsy Upside Down Mountain on Nonesuch Records, his first release on a major label. The album saw a guest appearance by Blake Mills, and for the tour, Oberst was backed by Laurel Canyon revivalists Dawes.

2014: Alt-J

The pleasant if anonymous British group Alt-J is one of those groups that are way more popular than you might realize, so when Oberst dropped by to sing on “Warm Foothills” from their second album This Is All Yours, it was a bit of a case of the trio introducing Oberst to a broader audience and him giving the critically maligned act a bit of credibility and a touch of grit.

2019: Phoebe Bridgers

The past several years have seen Oberst operating squarely in the Americana, singer-songwriter mold. While this has not been without its highlights (his pared-down 2016 album Ruminations is one of his most quietly rewarding releases), it has been a bit frustrating for longtime fans to see him stick so narrowly to one lane. Self-confessed emo kid Phoebe Bridgers first recruited him to guest star on “Would You Rather?” And based on his uncharacteristically goofy dancing in the video, she seems to have a knack for getting him to loosen up. The pair toured together and later formed the band Better Oblivion Community Center, which features plenty of lovely, harmony-rich ballads but also sees Bridgers nudging Oberst to wild out like it’s 2005, especially on the Zinner-assisted romp “Dylan Thomas.”

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