Desaparecidos return as the original line up of Conor Oberst (vocals, guitar) Landon Hedges (bass guitar, vocals), Matt Baum (drums), Denver Dalley – (guitar) and Ian McElroy (keyboards). The band formed in 2001, released one album (2002′s critically lauded Read Music/Speak Spanish), and ceased playing together shortly thereafter.

Prior to the long awaited and much rumored summer dates, Oberst will play several solo shows throughout the northeast.

Additionally, Saddle Creek’s reissues of Fevers & Mirrors and There Is No Beginning To The Story are in stores today. Pick up your copy at the Saddle Creek webstore.

Conor Oberst  

Date	City	Venue		Tickets
07/06/12	Conor Oberst in Ottawa, ON	Ottawa Blues Fest		Buy tickets
07/24/12	Conor Oberst in Bethlehem, PA	Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center		Buy tickets
07/25/12	Conor Oberst in Albany, NY	Swyer Theater @ The Egg		Sold Out
07/26/12	Conor Oberst in Fairfield, CT	StageOne		Sold Out
	w/ First Aid Kit
07/27/12	Conor Oberst in Newport, RI	Jane Pickens Theater		Sold Out
	w/ Dawes and First Aid Kit
07/29/12	Conor Oberst in Newport, RI	Newport Folk Festival		Sold Out
09/27/12	Conor Oberst in Los Angeles, CA	Royce Hall
	Tickets on sale May 18th at 10AM.
11/21/12	Conor Oberst in New York, NY	Carnegie Hall
	Tickets on sale May 21st at 11am

Desaparecidos  

Date	City	Venue		Tickets
08/09/12	Desaparecidos in Minneapolis, MN	400 Bar		Sold Out
	w/ Little Brazil
08/11/12	Desaparecidos in Omaha, NE	MAHA Fest @ Aksarben Village		Buy tickets
08/25/12	Desaparecidos in Seattle, WA	Showbox at The Market		Buy tickets
08/26/12	Desaparecidos in Portland, OR	Crystal Ballroom		Buy tickets
08/29/12	Desaparecidos in San Francisco, CA	Regency Ballroom		Buy tickets

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Very excited to announce that we will be playing this year’s @mahafestival on 8/11. We also have a new website: desaparecidosband.com

— Desaparecidos (@desaband) April 23, 2012

Who’d have thought a 77-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter would be hovering near the top of the pop charts? Leonard Cohen was a poet and fiction writer who, in the 1960s, wrote songs like “Suzanne,” “So Long, Marianne” and “Bird on a Wire.” His unmistakable voice lulls you into a hypnotic spell on his new album, so we asked two fellow singers and Cohen fans to talk about what they hear on Old Ideas: Conor Oberst, best known for his band Bright Eyes, and Ron Sexsmith.

Listen to the entire All Things Considered segment at NPR.ORG.

PRE-ORDER “ONE OF MY KIND”

Disc 1 (CD or LP)

1. One of My Kind
2. Gentleman’s Pact
3. Corina, Corina
4. Synesthete Song
5. Breezy
6. Central City
7. I Got the Reason #1
8. Phil’s Song (Learn to Stop Time)
9. Normal
10. Kodachrome
11. White Shoes (Reprise)

Disc 2 (DVD)

1. One of My Kind: The Story of the Mystic Valley Band – a documentary by Philip Schaffart

about the film
Philip Schaffart was not hired by Conor Oberst to make the film “One of My Kind.” He was hired to make sure the guitars stayed in tune. But Phil had a video camera with him as the Mystic Valley Band came together for the first time at Valle Místico in Tepoztlán, Mexico in January of 2008 and so he started filming what he sensed was something special.

“When I started filming, none of us had the intentions of turning what was being shot into a film,” says Phil, “but the things we were seeing, feeling and capturing with the music proved to be inspiring in ways we were not prepared for.” Later that year after touring for the Conor’s self-titled Merge release the Mystic Valley Band went back into the studio, this time at the Sonic Ranch outside of El Paso, Texas where they recorded their follow-up release, “Outer South.”

This album was a reflection of what the MVB had become over the preceding 10 months. Now, the song writing was no longer Conor’s sole responsibility as the other members of the band all spread their own musical and compositional wings. All the while, Phil continued to film what was going on with the band, capturing the year of touring, the almond orchards in Texas, the temples and steep cliffs of Mexico and the evolution of a group of musicians that started as not much more than an idea for a different way to make a record, and ended up being a fully realized rock band.

“Something was happening between the six members of the band musically that was effortless and natural in a way I had not seen before;” Phil continues: “In Texas we started thinking that the footage could be turned into a documentary film.” Phil returned to Omaha later and enlisted the help of the H Minus Production team and after many grueling hours in the edit suite, a film was born.

Also check out The Calendar Hung Itself and I Believe In Symmetry over at good old YouTube.