After spending summer 2025 playing “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning” and “Digital Ash in a Digital Urn” front-to-back at Red Rocks, the Hollywood Bowl, and Forest Hills Stadium, Bright Eyes turn to fall with different material on the setlist and a support arrangement that blurs the band’s own edges.
About the Show
Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nate Walcott play Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater on Thursday, October 15, as part of a 13-show fall US tour running October 3 through October 18. Lullaby for the Working Class opens.
That billing is not an arm’s-length booking. Mogis founded Lullaby for the Working Class in Omaha in 1994 alongside Cursive’s Ted Stevens; the band ran through 1999, briefly reunited in 2010, and is now fully back. Both Mogis and Walcott will perform with each act on the same night — full sets with Lullaby, then again with Bright Eyes. As Mogis has said of those early years: “I learned so much from my time with Ted and Lullaby, both as a musician and engineer/producer, that I would go on to employ.” On October 15, that lineage is onstage for the full evening.
Five Dice, All Threes (September 2024), the band’s tenth studio album, brought in Cat Power, the National’s Matt Berninger, and Alex Orange Drink as collaborators. The Kids Table EP followed in September 2025, featuring Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff and a cover of a Lucinda Williams track. Bright Eyes began in 1995 when Oberst was 15, working with Mogis; Nate Walcott joined as a full member in 2006. After a nine-year hiatus (2011–2020), the band is now two studio albums into the reunion.
Venue & Logistics
Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater is a 2,500-cap outdoor venue on Red River Street — smaller than Red Rocks and the Hollywood Bowl by a considerable margin, which makes the October 15 show feel less like a monument and more like a band in motion. Doors 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. All ages. More Austin shows at Lonestar Concerts Austin.
Tickets
Bright Eyes has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to the Poison Oak Project, the band’s own 501(c)(3) non-profit launched in February 2025 to support LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations in touring cities. Tickets went on general sale June 26. No ticket price was available from sources at the time of publication. Buy tickets