Bright Eyes Returning with New Album, Special Shows in NYC, UK

Bright Eyes will release a new album, The People’s Key, February 15, 2011 on Saddle Creek.  It's the seventh studio set and follow-up to 2007’s Cassadaga. from the band headed up by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, who's spent the past few years recording solo albums with his Mystic Valley Band and also as a member of Monsters of Folk. 
Though no full tour news has been announced, the band will play two special shows Radio City Music Hall in New York City March 9 and London’s  Royal Albert Hall June 23.  
 

Since 2006 Bright Eyes has been anchored by Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour. The People’s Key was recorded at the band's ARC Studios in Omaha, Nebraska, produced by Mogis and engineered by Mogis and Andy LeMaster.
 
Pre-sales for both shows begin Wednesday, December 1 at 12 p.m. EST, with public on-sales Saturday, December 4 at 9 a.m.


The People’s Key track list:
1 Firewall 
2 Shell Games
3 Jejune Stars  
4 Approximate Sunlight 
5 Haile Selassie
6 A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)
7 Triple Spiral                                    
                                                      
8 Beginner’s Mind
                                   
9 Ladder Song                                                                      
10 One For You, One For Me
                 



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