Conor Oberst preview

The artist behind Bright Eyes will be in New Orleans November 20 at the Republic as part of his tour under his own name in support of his self-titled Merge Records debut. Here’s Jon Caramanica’s New York Times review of one of Oberst’s recent New York appearances: 

And so in this show, his second of two nights here performing material from that album as well as some newly written songs, he didn’t need to bear the burden of his own emotional bloodletting or carry the torch for a generation of sensitive men too smart to rely on emo to speak for them. He needed only to put on a passable, occasionally enthusiastic rock show.

Oberst will also be on Late Night with Conan O’Brien tonight peforming a new song, “Nicorette.”