Better Oblivion Community Center performed “Dylan Thomas,” “Didn’t Know What I Was In For,” and “My City” on CBS This Morning over the weekend.

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The Better Oblivion Community Center Interview Roundup
It’s Better Oblivion Community Center roundup time.
We’ve got an interview with DIY Mag:
“I was spending a lot of time in LA in the last couple of years, and I ended up hanging out with Phoebe and her friends a lot,” Conor explains, speaking to DIY over the phone from his native Omaha, Nebraska, where he and Phoebe are recording in the run-up to Christmas. “They’re always working on songs together, and trying to write for different people’s records, and their own records, so it’s a cool scene to be around.” He continues: “[There are] a lot of songwriters that are happy to share their songs and so we just wrote one of those songs on a whim, and then it turned into…’let’s do another one!’ And then ‘maybe we’ll make a single!’ and then…” Well, then it turned into the Better Oblivion Community Center.
A video interview with NME:
Asked why they chose to release the album by surprise, Bridgers told NME: “I really wanted to, because even before we started this I had a really good idea of what our hypothetical band would sound like. I don’t think it does like sound that, so I wanted to make sure that people didn’t think it was going to sound a certain way. It’s not duet-y. I think we stayed pretty true to it being its own band.”
An interview with Rolling Stone:
Bridgers and Oberst, who plan to take their new band on the road this spring, share a jovial familiarity with one another. Discussing the album in advance of its surprise release, Bridgers explains the process of deciding who sang lead on which song: “Conor — sorry to speak for you — but Conor doesn’t sing harmony.”
“No offense taken,” he replies with a chuckle.
“I would make an active choice to be like, ‘Okay, I always sing harmony, so on a couple of these songs I want Conor to sing harmony,’” Bridgers continues.
“It made me a better singer to have to do that,” Oberst adds. “It was cool to stretch myself a bit. It’s definitely not my strong suit, but Phoebe’s really fucking great at it. So to have a vocal coach like her being there being like, ‘No, you can do it. Try harder…’”
And an audio interview with Matt Wilkinson at Beats 1.
Better Oblivion Community Center Perform on Colbert
Better Oblivion Community Center performed “Dylan Thomas” on Colbert last night.
Better Oblivion Community Center Release New Album
The new album from Better Oblivion Community Center is now up on Apple Music and Spotify .
Better Oblivion Community Center Post Teaser Video
Better Oblivion Community Center have posted a teaser video. It’s looking like a February 22nd release.
Better Oblivion Community Center Playing Colbert
Better Oblivion Community Center will be playing Colbert on Wednesday night and CBS This Morning Saturday on January 26th.
More Better Oblivion Community Center Teasing
Some more information … well, not much information, but lots of speculation … about Better Oblivion Community Center (the rumored project of Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst) has been coming out the past few days.
Is a Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst Project Coming?
The internet is starting to uncover what looks like a collaboration between Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst called Better Oblivion Community Center.