Bright Eyes is an American indie/folk band founded by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst and consisting of Oberst, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis, trumpet and piano player Nate Walcott, and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha’s indie music scene.^[1]

Bright Eyes is signed to Saddle Creek Records, an American label also founded by Oberst and distributed by Sony Corporation. In 2004, the singles “Lua” and “Take It Easy (Love Nothing)” took the top two spots of Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles Sales chart within two weeks of their simultaneous release.

Fast Forward a few years and 2011 see’s the release of the band’s new album titled ‘The People’s Key‘. Released on the 15th February, Oberst has stated that the sound of The People’s Key will move away from the folk sound that the band had accomplished on previous records. “We’re over the Americana, rootsy, whatever that sound is. People say country but I never thought we were very country at all. But whatever that element is or that aesthetic is, I guess it’s worn a little thin for me these days. So we very much wanted it to be rocking and, for lack of a better term, contemporary, or modern.”