Bridgers

The folk-pop duo released their first and only album in 2019, but revived a few selections during Oberst's residency at Los Angeles' Teragram Ballroom The folk-pop duo Better Oblivion Community Center, helmed by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, made a surprise reunion on Thursday night at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. The venue has been hosting weekly shows as part of the Conor Oberst and Friends residency since early March. Bridgers’ special appearance at this week’s concert marked their…

It was five years ago when former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow told journalists backstage at the Grammys in 2018 that women needed to “step up” for their representation at the show after only men won out in the major categories. Phoebe Bridgers hasn’t forgotten. “I have something to say about women,” Bridgers said after Rolling Stone asked her and her fellow Boygenius members Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus about women shaping the future of rock music when they came to the Grammy press room. “The ex-president…

Phoebe Bridgers did not mince words when talking to reporters backstage at the Grammys, calling out the former head of the Recording Academy after he was recently accused of rape. Bridgers, who appeared in the Grammys press room alongside her boygenius band members Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus following their win for best rock performance, was asked about the future of rock and women excelling in the genre. “I have something to say about women,” Bridgers responded. “The ex-president of the…

Indie rock supergroup covered the Scottish traditional "The Parting Glass," with proceeds going to the Aisling Project Phoebe Bridgers has released her annual holiday cover — this time with the help of her boygenius bandmates. This year’s choice is “The Parting Glass,” a traditional Scottish song covered by everyone from Sinéad O’Connor, who is featured on the track’s cover art, to Hozier. Just like all of Bridgers’ holiday songs, proceeds will be donated, this year to the Aisling Project, an…

Animated clip was directed by Bernard Derrimen, who recently helmed The Bob’s Burgers Movie The National and Phoebe Bridgers are cracking up to stave off falling apart in the new animated music video for their recent collaboration, “Laugh Track.” The video was directed and animated by Bernard Derrimen, who recently helmed The Bob’s Burgers Movie. In it, a couple sit down for a grave conversation but are soon overwhelmed by a rising tide of chuckling faces. Before the couple nearly drowns in…

Not Taylor Swift, But Matty Healy Is Dating Singer Phoebe Bridgers? New Clip Of Healy & Bridgers Kissing Fuels Rumours (Picture Credit: Instagram & Wikimedia) Taylor Swift has been in the headlines for several weeks due to her alleged breakup with Joe Alwyn. Within two months of her reported breakup, reports of the singer dating Matty Healy began making rounds. As Matty was even present at Swift’s Eras Tour concert in Nashville, netizens now believe that he was there for Phoebe Bridgers and not the Love Story…

“In another life we were arsonists,” goes a lyric on this first album from Boygenius, the supergroup consisting of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – three of the most thoughtful, wry and quietly powerful indie-rock songwriters of the past decade. It’s a telling line for music that blazes with feeling, and is unabashed about drolly skewering and examining the male ego (see: songs about internalised notions of masculinity and lines such as “And I am not an old man having an existential crisis at a Buddhist…

Phoebe Bridgers is known for having a way with words, and she has a few choice ones for abusive fans. The “Motion Sickness” singer recently opened up about some of the less savory sides of fame in an interview with Them, and her Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker backed her up.The paparazzi were hounding Bridgers as she walked through a Los Angeles International Airport terminal with comedian and “Promising Young Woman” actor Bo Burnham this January. She had announced the death of her father with an…

Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers continued her run of somber Christmas-song activism on Thursday by dropping a cover of the Handsome Family’s 2000 song “So Much Wine.” Each holiday season since 2017, when Bridgers released a cover of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” the L.A.-based artist has shared her take on a Christmas classic. This year the proceeds will go to the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Bridgers’ melancholic, acoustic or stripped-down covers act as counter-programming of sorts, trudging against the…

A $3.8m (£3.26m) action for defamation filed against Los Angeles indie rock musician Phoebe Bridgers by producer Chris Nelson late last year has been dismissed, MyNews LA reports.Nelson had alleged that Bridgers had “intentionally used her high-profile public platform … to publish false and defamatory statements”.The lawsuit was dismissed on Wednesday by Los Angeles superior court judge Curtis A Kin. Bridgers’ lawyers had filed a dismissal motion in February under California’s “anti-Slapp” law, which attempts to stop…