Tag Archives: Mike Mogis

The collaboration of AJ Mogis (bass), Mike Mogis (guitar), Jason Evans (guitar), Jason Christensen (vocals), and Jason Carper (drums) led to the jumbled up noise of Fun Chicken. Hailing from your backwoods community of North Platte, NE, a experience of jazz, punk, funk, and metallic fusion progressed into their arranged …

Although some musicians have joined the band’s rotating lineup, Shiny Eyes is mainly the songwriting vehicle of Conor Oberst, a quivery-voiced Nebraska native who first attracted attention in 1994 — when he was just 14 yrs . old — because the vocalist and guitarist for Commander Venus. Oberst became a …

Lullaby for the Functioning Class comes from Nebraska and combines the ’90s chamber pop noises of Lambchop and Tindersticks as well as the country-rock stylings of Gram Parsons. Originally the music group started out being a two-piece with Mike Mogis and Ted Stevens, both vocalist/songwriter musicians. To help make the …

Monsters of Folk were formed across the skills of indie rock and roll giants Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis (Bright Eye), M. Ward (She & Him), and Jim Wayne (My Morning Coat). Conceived in 2004, the task gradually shaped out of on-stage collaborations and backstage hootenannies as the four music …