Bright Eyes’ ‘Tourizer” is coming to The First Avenue Mainroom on Thursday, May 11th!
Sometimes it feels like you hear a Bright Eyes song with your whole body. From Conor Oberst’s early recordings in an Omaha basement in 1995 all the way up to 2020, Bright Eyes’ music tries to unravel the impossible tangles of dissent: personal and political, external and internal. It’s a study of the beauty in unsteadiness in all its forms – in a voice, beliefs, love, identity, and what fills up the spaces in-between. And in so many ways, it’s just about searching for a way through.
Bright Eyes’ expansive catalog has traversed genre, sound, and countless players; unpolished demos or fuzzy folk, electrified rock or country twang. The sharp songwriting and musicianship is all anchored in Bright Eyes’ singular ability to flip deep intimacy into something universal. For so many, for so long, listening to Bright Eyes has been like hearing yourself in someone else’s song – a moment of understanding or illumination, knowing you’re on the same team looking for a way to move through of all this shit.
Opening up the show will be Maya Hawke. Born in New York City, 23-year-old Maya Hawke is an actress, singer, and lyricist. Hawke is famously known for her statement role on Netflix’s Stranger Things, and can be seen in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Amanda Kramer’s Ladyworld, and the Netflix film Do Revenge.Now, in 2022, on the heels of another Stranger Things season and feeling more inspired than ever, Hawke releases her sophomore album MOSS. Hawke introduced the album to the world sitting on a couch across from none other than Jimmy Fallon, where they also discussed Hawke’s vulnerable announce single “Thérèse”. Hawke followed up the dreamy, provocative announce track with sweet and sprawling “Sweet Tooth” and the lamenting “Luna Moth”.
Tickets are still available HERE!
