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Bright Eyes have returned with their first album in four years. Five Dice, All Threes is slated for release on Sept. 20.

Cat Power, the National’s Matt Berninger, and the So So Glos’ Alex Orange Drink join Bright Eyes’ members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott on their upcoming 10th studio album.

Alongside the album announcement, the band shared the LP’s lead single, “Bells and Whistles,” and music video for the track, which features them rocking on stage, a magical photo booth sprouting show attendees, and a bar fight.

Bright Eyes are back. On Tuesday, the Conor Oberst-led outfit announced a new album — Five Dice, All Threes, due on September 20th via Dead Oceans — released a new single titled “Bells and Whistles,” and announced a world tour.

Spanning 13 new tracks, Five Dice, All Threes is Bright Eyes’ first album since their 2020 comeback Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, and features contributions by Cat Power, The National’s Matt Berninger, and The So So Glos’ Alex Orange Drink.

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Speaking about it in a statement, the band’s Nate Walcott explained that Five Dice, All Threes “revisits the spirit of our older records. There is a real quality of chaos and ecstatic urgency in the performances.” Comparing it to their 2005 album I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, Mike Mogis said “It took us 20 years to make another record that sounds like a band playing live.

‘Tis the season for holiday music, and Bright Eyes have contributed to the festivities with a new cover of the John Prine yuletide classic “Christmas in Prison.”

For their rendition of the song, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott give it a bit of a beefier instrumental, though the spirit of Prine’s original is still very much present — especially since the recording boasts a sample of his voice from 1993’s A John Prine Christmas. (The singer-songwriter died in April 2020 of complications stemming from Covid-19.)

“It is strange to get a chance to share a track with a hero of mine who has passed on,” Oberst said in a statement. “Normally not something I would do. I don’t like holograms. But I have so much love and affection for John as a person and his music. He really changed my life on a lot of levels. When I...

Bright Eyes have released a cover of John Prine’s 1973 song “Christmas in Prison.” The song features a sample from “A John Prine Christmas,” off 1993’s A John Prine Christmas EP. Listen here.

Proceeds from the single will go to Prine’s charity, The Hello In There Foundation, an initiative established by his family to honor his memory. It aims to “offer support for people who are marginalized, discriminated against or, for any reason, are otherwise forgotten.” The single will benefit four beneficiaries of The Hello In There Foundation’s...

Bright Eyes pulled out all the stops to deliver a full-band performance of “Dance and Sing” Wednesday on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The track comes off the group’s 2020 album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, which Rolling Stone said reminds listeners why frontman Conor Oberst “was one of the best singer-songwriters of the 2000s.”

Oberst, alongside longtime Bright Eyes members Nate Walcott and Mike Mogis, were backed by a large group of musicians, including a full strings section and horn players, for the performance.

Bright Eyes performed four songs — including three from their first album in nearly a decade — on the latest installment of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.

The trio recorded their set with Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis performing at Arc Studios in Omaha, Nebraska, while Nate Walcott appeared at the Los Angeles studio, Lucy’s Meat Market, with Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond providing back-up vocals.

Bright Eyes opened the performance with the three songs from Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was: “Mariana Trench,” “Pan and Broom” and “Persona Non Grata.

A few years ago, Conor Oberst was attending a Christmas party at Nate Walcott’s home in Los Angeles when he told his Bright Eyes bandmate he had an idea. “It kind of just came out of my mouth,” Oberst, 40, recalls: “’Let’s do it. Let’s make a record.’”

To Walcott, the decision to end the band’s unofficial hiatus of nearly a decade felt organic. “It wasn’t like I was standing in the kitchen and dropped a pound cake,” the 42-year-old musician cracks. “Schedules were aligning. Also,...

Heads up, okay? That "The Fault In Our Stars" movie adaptation has gotten a triple dose of incoming talent! According to director Josh Boone (thanks to a little digging by my pals over at Page to Premiere) it looks like Bright Eyes' Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott will compose the score for "Fault." The pair had previously teamed with Boone for the music on his directorial debut "Stuck In Love," so they've got some experience working together. Speaking of which, Boone also intends to wrangle back in his "Stuck" editing team, headed by Robb Sullivan. Meanwhile, the director also announced today on Twitter that "Beasts Of The Southern Wild" and "Drinking Buddies" cinematographer Ben Richardson has joined the filmmaking line-up for "Tfios" as well. See also: Josh Boone gives 'Fault In Our Stars' shooting schedule update, feels 'lucky' Production on "Fault," which will star Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and...

Okay, we slept on this a bit, and given that soundtracks are sometimes our thing, we apologize for that, but with "Stuck In Love" in coming into theaters this Friday, it's better late than never, right? For you Conor Oberst and co. fans out there, this might also be a reminder that they've got some new material out there. That's right, the indie dramedy (starring Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Lily Collins, Liana Liberato and Kristen Bell) features an original score by Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott of Bright Eyes, with the duo also dropping the new songs “At Your Door” (featuring Big Harp) and “Somersaults In Spring” (in a group titled Friends Of Gemini with Corina Figueroa Escamilla) while Oberst himself contributes “You Are Your Mother’s Child.” The rest of the disc is rounded out by tunes from Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes and a small handful of...

Every couple of years, a musician will either want to stretch his or her wings creatively and or realize that there's good money in composing soundtracks that beats slugging it out on the road. Recent converts that come to mind are Nick Urrata of DeVotchKa (soundtracks include "Little Miss Sunshine" and the terrifically underrated "Ruby Sparks," both as a movie and score) and Nebraskan producer/engineer, multi-instrumentalist and Bright Eyes member Mike Mogis, who's recorded and performed with The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, The Good Life, Jenny Lewis, and many more ("Lovely, Still," and "Writers" are two recent soundtracks he's scored with fellow Bright Eyes member Nate Walcott). The latest indie rockers jumping into the arena of scoring soundtracks is Fruit Bats founder Eric D. Johnson. He scored the winning indie picture "Ceremony" and "Our Idiot Brother," and along with...

With Josh Boone having just this weekend unveiled his first feature film, Writers, at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Playlist have published two new images from the project.

Writers stars Greg Kinnear as a successful author whose family — and casual hook-up Kristen Bell — is plagued by unresolved feelings towards his ex-wife, played by Jennifer Connelly. Lily Collins appears as the one of their two children (alongside Nat Wolff), who is determined not to follow in her parents’ doomed footprints when she becomes romantically involved with Logan Lerman’s classmate, Lou.

The main players appear in the latest images, included below, while The Playlist also sat down with Boone to discuss the film’s production…

“I sent a letter to Judy Cairo who produced Crazy Heart who gave me the shot to make this movie”, he explained. “She ended up liking it, and she took it to CAA and they...