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If you were like Gothamist Saturday night and stayed out too late at some bar on Ave C then you also missed the Austin City Limits that aired with Wilco and Bright Eyes. You also forgot to TiVo it. Luckily, it's airing again at midnight this Friday. So stop reading and go set your DVR's now.
Wilco last played on ACL in 2000, then described as Alt country kingpins, playing: "I Got You," "Misunderstood," "Can't Stand It," "Christ for President," and "California Stars." This time around they have "outgrown their alt country" title and their set included "At Least That's What You Said", "Muzzle of Bees", "Hell is Chrome", "Ashes of American Flags" and "I'm a Wheel". Filmed on September 20th of last year, it was long before their Tinkle appearance.
24-year old (fairly) recent NYC transplant, Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes, performed "Waste of Paint", "We Are Nowhere and It's Now", "Vincent O'Brien", "Golden" and "At the Bottom of Everything" for his set. Oberst has a talent for capturing everyday New York City in his songs, some of our favorites to listen to while on the subway, so we're glad he's a resident now. We're also glad he'll be playing at our favorite venue (Town Hall) on the 25th, 26th and 27th of this month. Even if we did forget to buy tickets.
[Related: Austin City Limits Festival 2005. Open Note to Lockhart Steele: Trey Anastasio on ACL January 15th. Bright Eyes in this month's Under the Radar, Blender and Filter.]
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It's also airing on XM's "The Loft" station from time to time.
I'm usally not a hater - but Conor is just about the phoniest person on the scene. Since the mid-nineties, we've all been told that he's the next coming and what a child prodigy he is (even in your article you note his age, which is no longer that young) and still he has yet to produce one truly original piece of work. He's an indie version of Ashlee Simpson (someone who's had an entire career served up on a plate for them) and his move from his East Bumfuck music project in the middle of ass nowhere to NYC just solidifies his standing in my mind as someone who never means a word he says, but pretends it's all meaningful. There are scores of real New York acts leaving their blood and original ideas on the stage every night. Don't waste space giving space to this waste of space. Drown in red wine Conor, and take Moby with you.
Conor Oberst's set was awful. Bright Eyes makes me sick.
On preview, what tigger said.
i don't know about conor's personal experiences or anything much about his life. but if you are into good lyric writing, as i am, he is at minimum someone to check out. he may be phony and not mean a word he says, but i think to write the words that he does, he must have some interest in the topic. i don't know where this idea came from that everything should be new and original, because it's not very plausible. there is nothing wrong with following in footsteps in my opinion. granted i don't live in new york and do not follow the scene there, but i'm sure somewhere at sometime, there was or is someone "leaving their blood and original ideas on stage". i don't think he is a child prodigy, but he is good at what he does and that's enough for me. i like to just enjoy the music new, or old.