The NY Times reflects on Bright Eyes' recent seven night run at Town Hall. Is Conor Oberst so complex that many, many charts analyzing him, his show and his fans outbursts, is necessary? Maybe not, but in an effort to explain "art" with a little bit of "science" the Times actually sent a blogger to all seven shows - to test his endurance, and bring home the cold hard facts. The observations range from......

Hayes Peebles is a solo artist. We admit that calling a young singer-songwriter the next Conor Oberst is about as cliche as calling Conor Oberst the next Bob Dylan, but we can't deny that we hear a lot of those qualities in Hayes. Songs about sitting on the steps of Union Square, lonely subway rides and not getting into shows because you're too young. These are real songs by a real New Yorker, and......

We meant to go to the Bring Em Home concert Monday night (yeah, we like Conor Oberst. Wanna fight?) however we were still 37,000 feet in the air on our way home from Austin. Luckily Merlin of Last Nights Party was there though! He took pictures of the crazy attendees, performers and the afterparty shenanigans. Check them all out here, and try to guess who's tiny naughy bit that is in this midst of......

Since it's late in the day, and the benefit show featuring Sufjan Stevens and Adam Green at Bowery Ballroom is sold out, we're going to quickly highlight one other show happening tonight in Brooklyn. The band is Architecture in Helsinki. The venue is Warsaw. "The best eight-piece art-hippie collective Australia has ever produced, Architecture in Helsinki, is all about some cultural mishmash. With a membership including a white dread, an unshod singer, a guy......

As soon as Bright Eyes (and the Faint) are finished hogging Webster Hall this week, former Conor Oberst label mate Rilo Kiley take over for a two day run. Former child actress Jenny Lewis leads this band of safe OC-ready indie pop-rockers. For a taste of Rilo, download MP3s of their entire Coachella performance. Portastatic and The Brunettes open both shows on Thursday and Friday. For something completely unsafe (slam dancing, ringing ears, and......

We couldn't help but notice the abundance of talented white male rockers invading NYC this week. New and old and originating from various corners of the Earth, the white boys of rock n' roll are invading. Let us be your guide. Last time they were here, they rocked NYC under the Brooklyn Bridge. The Irish international living rock n' roll legends, U2, are coming to a stadium near you. Tuesday and Wednesday at Continental Airlines......

Since this seems to be hard to grasp for some we just want to reiterate that this post is just to let you know that we've noticed a few tickets that are on sale for shows that we believe may sell out. We won't be repeating any ticket listings we posted last time, so you may want to give that list a once over as well. Also, we put a $ sign next to overpriced......

Gothamist (and, um, not ALL of Gothamist - but this part) has a love-hate thing with Conor Oberst. He is talented, but he doesn't really live up to the insane number of magazine covers he's been on this year [Publisher's note: he soooooo totally does- I'd make out with him for hours! Super-hottt!] So we went to the show hoping to sink into the seat of our favorite venue and hear the rattled voice of......

If anybody missed last week's The Hold Steady show at Mercury, shame on you. You're probably a wuss. In that case, wow, you're in for a big week. Our TONY cover-boy (and new east village renter, swoon) Conor Oberst is playing, like, forty-seven shows this week. Man, when this guy moves in, he really moves in. I'm gonna go a little out of order and get those out of the way ahead of time: Tuesday,......

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......