Conor oberst played a special solo show @ The Waiting Room with simon joyner in his hometown of omaha the other night. He performed mostly old bright eyes songs (I bet as practice for that un-announced “final” BE tour coming up!) and he also threw in a new song for kicks.

setlist:

1. north of the city
2. Cape Canaveral
3. I won’t ever be happy again
4. Something vague
5. train under water
6. bowl of oranges
7. 10 women
8. a scale a mirror and those indifferent clocks
9. I know you (new song)
10. poison oak
11. Moab
12. milk thistle

encore:

13. new year (w/joyner)
14. we are freemen
15. roll on
16. I don’t want to die in a hospital

you can download a bootleg of the new track here. track and photo courtesy of hazyskyline6

edit: link is broken, you can check it on youtube

Neutral milk hotel’s “in the aeroplane over the sea” is apparently the top selling 33& 1/3rd book. I suppose it just goes to show you just how much NMH fans want something new (even if its a book and not an album). TAKE THAT BEATLES!

top 25 from the 33& 1/3rd blog:

1. Neutral Milk Hotel
2. The Rolling Stones
3. Radiohead
4. The Kinks
5. The Smiths
6. Velvet Underground
7. Joy Division
8. The Beatles
9. Celine Dion
10. Bob Dylan
11. The Beach Boys
12. Led Zeppelin
13. David Bowie
14. My Bloody Valentine
15. Pink Floyd
16. Beastie Boys
17. Pixies
18. DJ Shadow
19. Neil Young
20. Love
21. The Replacements
22. Jeff Buckley
23. The Band
24. Jimi Hendrix
25. Sonic Youth

After a grueling 8 or so hours here it is, in all its glory. As you can see I fucking love anthems.

20 best songs

20. the glow pt 2. – the microphones
19. the modern leper – Frightened rabbit
18. thrash unreal – against me!
17. come pick me up – ryan adams
16. against pollution – the mountain goats
15. lndiana – cymbals eat guitars
14. lua – bright eyes
13. chicago – sufjan stevens
12. Little shadow – yeah yeah yeahs
11. do you realize?? – the flaming lips
10. skinny love – bon iver

9. cold cold water – mirah

8. 3rd planet – modest mouse

7. kings crossing – elliott smith

6. I feel it all – feist

5. casimir pulaski day – sufjan stevens

4. all my friends – lcd soundsystem

3. wake up – arcade fire

2. fake empire – the national

1. Road to joy – bright eyes

best 10 albums

10. sound of silver – lcd soundsystem
9. why there are mountains – cymbals eat guitars
8. alligator – the national
7. the glow pt 2. – the microphones
6. good news for people who love bad news – modest mouse
5. funeral – arcade fire (neighborhood #1 (tunnels)

4. illinoise – sufjan stevens (chicago)

3. The reminder – Feist (the park)

2. Boxer – The national (slow show)

1. I’m wide awake its morning – Bright eyes (road to joy)