Tickets for Bright Eyes' newly announced NYC show at Forest Hills Stadium on June 6, playing I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn in full (with a set from Built to Spill between them), go on BrooklynVegan Presale today (12/11) starting at 10 AM ET. Use the presale password WIDEAWAKEITSVEGAN. Our presale runs until 10 PM ET, and any remaining tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, December 12 at 10 AM ET.
On "Cairns (When Your Heart Belongs to Everyone)," he sulks about the pressures of being a public figure with a series of increasingly strained comparisons: "a flower shop in June," "footprints on the moon," "a corner store that's out of booze." "Shakespeare in a Nutshell" is perhaps the worst offender, a muted electric piano backing Oberst as he mopes, "I have no one to depend on, Gentile or Jew."