Bright Eyes, “Five Dice, All Threes.” The first 90 seconds of Five Dice, All Threes, the new album from folk-rock act Bright Eyes, features dialog centered on a dice game called game of threes.  It’s impossible to know whether the conversation was recorded for the album, is a dialog…

If you were to ask a record-store-frequenting college student, circa 2005, about Conor Oberst, the response would be invariably the same: “Isn’t that the dude from The Faint?” Err, well, yes but no; and good job being a hipster. Though these disparate Omahans did collaborate briefly in the mid-1990s,…

“lus,” Illustration: Vivian Shih It’s “love and hate” week at RIFF. We’ve taken on the theme of Valentine’s Day to talk about both sides of love. Today, we asked our writers, photographers and editors about their favorite love songs. Additionally, we’ve partnered with talented artist Vivian Shih, who has illustrated…