Two months ago, Bright Eyes announced the schedule for their next tour that would follow an upcoming September appearance at Riot Fest in Chicago. The slate of dates was scheduled to kick off in Minneapolis on Oct. 3 but has since received a slight adjustment that will pull the first show forward one day to Milwaukee’s Turner Hall Ballroom on Oct. 2.
The band led by Conor Oberst have made regular stops in Brew City over the years, including visits to the Riverside Theater in 2022 and the Pabst Theater in 2023. Since that last performance, Bright Eyes released the album Five Dice, All Threes in 2024 and their Kids Table EP in 2025.
The tour will also serve as a reunion for opener Lullaby for the Working Class, which includes Bright Eyes’ members Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. That pair will pull double duty at every show, including the Turner Hall Ballroom date that’s on sale now via AXS and at the Pabst/Riverside box offices.
Artist bio
Bright Eyes began in 1995 in an Omaha basement as a recording moniker for 15-year-old Conor Oberst’s work with producer/multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis. Mogis and composer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Nate Walcott became fully fledged members in 2006, and the band has released one time-capsule LP after another over the last two-plus decades.
Their robust, mature, narratively cohesive discography features urgent dispatches from transcendent, fleeting eras of our collective lives — including landmark albums like I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.
Bright Eyes' impact and influence has been significant throughout pop culture, appearing in countless films and television shows while their songs have been covered by dozens of artists, including Lorde, The Killers, Mac Miller, Phoebe Bridgers, Jason Mraz and beabadoobee, plus samples by rappers like Young Thug and Lil Peep. For a band that’s often been perceived as an outlier, the depth, breadth, and impact of the Bright Eyes canon is remarkable.
