Indie Rock Icon, 45, Participates in (And Loses) His Own Lookalike Contest first appeared on Parade on Aug 4, 2025 This story ...

"I was cleaning out my closet so you get a big bag of my clothing," Oberst told the winner of the fundraiser event.

A 2000s rock legend showed up to his own lookalike contest in Omaha, Nebraska, delighting fans. The event was held on August ...

Oberst himself didn't seem that surprised, though: "I was cleaning out my closet, so you get a big bag of my clothing," he ...

As part of Commander Venus, Conor Oberst saw the band’s second album The Uneventful Vacation released to acclaim by Wind-up Records in 1997.

Following an almost decadelong hiatus, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, aka Bright Eyes, revived the popular indie-rock band they formed in the late 1990s. Noted for their melancholy ...

Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst was the subject of a celebrity lookalike contest in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, on ...

Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes has a ton of evidence pointing to the fact that he is a great songwriter: a lifetime of writing music, an enormous back catalogue, and fans who hang on his every word.

Commander Venus, the Omaha emo band co-fronted by Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Cursive’s Tim Kasher, recorded their second album, 1997’s The Uneventful Vacation, for Grass, though the label ...

Conor Oberst, the lead singer and songwriter, has made it clear that some things are difficult to understand. Oberst doesn’t spend the album pointlessly fumbling at meaning but attempts to navigate it ...

Now, Conor Oberst is returning the favor by appearing on “Queen Victoria,” the lead single of the So So Glos’ frontman’s new LP Victory Lap (#23).

Move over, George Lopez. Indie singe-songwriter Conor Oberst has made a place for himself in the anti-Joe Arpaio camp with a song titled, “MariKKKopa.” Oberst, who made a name for himself as ...