Album Review: Bright Eyes’ ‘Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was’

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A.D. Amorosi With each album since 2011’s “Finally Famous,” rapper Big Sean has run from the chipper insolence of youth (and away from being a Kanye protégé) into the arms of ruminative adulthood and all of its blessings and curses.

a previous plan.Lawyers representing Wedil David, Dominique Huett, Kaja Sokola, Rowena Chiu, Zelda Perkins, and Tarale Wulff called the proposal “more offensive” than the one rejected by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in July.

Steve Bloom Toots Hibbert, Jamaica’s answer to James Brown, is 80 years old and still cranking out music that sounds as fresh as his original records in the mid-1960s. His latest under the Toots and the Maytals banner, and first full-length since 2011: the album “Got to Be Tough.”Raised in Kingston, Toots’ career mirrored Bob Marley’s.

Chris Willman Music WriterBettye LaVette is widely — and wisely — revered as one of our greatest living rhythm and blues singers, and maybe right there at the pinnacle. Her star as a knock-down, drag-out, leave-no-prisoners stylist has risen in the decade and a half since she made her return to prominence in her late 50s, 60s and now early 70s after decades of having seemed publicly MIA.

Chris Willman Music WriterWhen Katy Perry sings that it’s “Never Really Over” at the top of her “Smile” album — a year-old introduction to a brand new collection — you can hear it as an expression of romantic regret, as intended, or take that title for what it really means for Perry: a vow of career imperishability. By just about anybody’s standards, she’s been on a cool streak, with seven years having transpired since the last No.

Jeff Vasishta Toni Braxton was one of the biggest pop and R&B stars of the 1990s, and after a few years out of the spotlight, began a career resurgence began with 2014’s “Love, Marriage & Divorce” album with Babyface, which continued with 2018’s “Sex & Cigarettes.” Now, a mere two years later, she’s back with “Spell My Name,” possibly her strongest album since her halcyon period in the mid-to-late ‘90’s.She’s brought along several longtime collaborators.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe concept of the remix album dates back to the 1980s, when record companies would slap together several “dance,” “club,” “house,” “street” or “funky fresh” remixes into full-length albums, creating a relatively low-overhead addition to the catalogs — and balance sheets — of artists ranging from Madonna and David Bowie to the Human League and Milli Vanilli.

Bright Eyes have shared a new Thin Lizzy cover – hear their version of ‘Running Back’ below.It follows the release of Bright Eyes’ first new album in nearly a decade, ‘Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was’, which came out on Friday (August 21).Bright Eyes shared the new Thin Lizzy cover while appearing on US radio station SiriusXM – hear their version of the track below.Reviewing ‘Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was’, which is Conor Oberst and co’s first new album since 2011’s ‘The

Katy Perry went through a dark period. Her yearlong relationship with Orlando Bloom came to a screeching halt, her average-at-best album Witness received the worst reviews of her career and she had a bout with clinical depression.

Bright Eyes have showcased their latest album ‘Down In The Weeds Where The World Once Was’ in a new performance on CBS’ This Morning.Delivering the socially-distanced performance, the band ran through two tracks from the album – ‘Persona Non Grata’ and ‘Mariana Trench’.Oberst was joined by his bandmates Mike Mogis, Nathaniel Walcott and Anna Butterss, alongside the duo Lucius.You can watch both performances below.Oberst also recently guested on Matty Healy’s ‘In Conversation’ podcast, and he

A Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt reunion will shortly take place and will bring them together onscreen again. As previously announced, the two stars will participate in Dane Cook‘s upcoming Dane Cook Presents Feelin’ A-Live: Fast Times at Ridgemont High virtual live table read–-and even though virtual, Dane Promises it’ll be an “onscreen” reunion.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven in an era that has produced very few big rock bands, The Killers are an anomaly. They’re one of the most commercially successful acts of the 21st century, but their music — a crafty mix of pop, heartland rock and new wave — doesn’t fit into any scene or genre, and their biggest hit by far, “Mr.

Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst has spoken in praise of The 1975, saying that their “genre-less” sound “confuses me, but I like that”.Oberst was speaking to NME ahead of the release of Bright Eyes’ new album ‘Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was’, their first LP in almost a decade.Asked in the interview about the influence that The 1975 have drawn from Bright Eyes, Oberst said that he met the band’s frontman Matty Healy recently “and he’s really cool”.“I don’t hear a lot in common between our

Conor Oberst has finally been accepted as a prophet, and (dare we say it?) is now actually kinda cool. The geeks have inherited the earth.Millennial icons Matty Healy of The 1975 and Phoebe Bridgers have brought Oberst’s band Bright Eyes to a new audience by singing his praises as a sad poet influence.

Luke Morgan Britton “I feel like this has happened to me way too often these days, but rest in power,” a slightly weary Conor Oberst tells NME over a Zoom call from his home in Omaha, Nebraska, ahead of his band Bright Eyes‘ new album ‘Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was’, their first in almost a decade.We’re discussing a lyric from the record, specifically one that bizarrely name-checks the city of Cardiff.