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ALBUM REVIEW: Bright Eyes get mysterious on ‘Five Dice, All Threes’
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…
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REVIEW: Bright Eyes ends hiatus, brightens corners on ‘Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was’
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,…
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RECAP & PHOTOS: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass leaves Golden Gate Park glowing
Cheap Trick. Photos: Chloe Catajan and Paige K. Parsons SAN FRANCISCO — The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival brought out the “golden” in Golden Gate Park last weekend. Following a sullen week marked by the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival and the death of rock icon Tom Petty,…
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Cozy up to the fire with RIFF’s favorite love songs
“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…
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Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly music discovery
Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Oftentimes, new singles are lost among the sea of radio hits and artists that are tough to sort out on Spotify go unnoticed—these are the hidden gems we’ve decided to share. This month, we’re starting a weekly feature for…
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Review, photos: Conor Oberst, Jim James share the love at The Fillmore
Photos: Nick DeCicco SAN FRANCISCO — Thanksgiving came early to San Francisco, at least according to Jim James. The My Morning Jacket frontman profusely and repeatedly thanked headliner and Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst during their show Saturday at The Fillmore in San Francisco. “It’s hard to believe it’s already Thanksgiving.…
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Review: Monsters of Folk (almost) reunites at Hardly Strictly
Photos: Nick DeCicco SAN FRANCISCO — An almost-reunion for rock supergroup Monsters of Folk was the highlight of a strong Conor Oberst set to close out Friday’s first day of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. Jim James and M. Ward joined Oberst for a pair…