Conor Oberst's most recent musical incarnation, The Mystic Valley Band, has been captured on film for a new documentary. The movie follows the first 18 months of the band's career, and is being released for free from a variety of websites. It can be downloaded from Causecast.org, an online charity site. The idea behind the free release is that fans might donate money to one of the number of charities supported by the site, which is nice. More info on the film, entitled 'One of My Kind', here.

The full doc is released on April 15th, and a trailer can be viewed below:

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Being a big Bright Eyes fan, an eyebrow was raised at seeing Conor Oberst on the Electric Picnic bill. Bright Eyes is essentially 'The Conor Oberst Show', so a solo spot seemed odd. I was expecting a one-man-and-a-guitar kinda thing, but that is apparently not the case.

Oberst has in fact recorded a solo album, backed up in a Bright Eyes fashion by a group of his mates (including M. Ward & Rilo Kiley's Jason Boesel) who are being called the 'Mystic Valley Band'. It's this setup that Picnic goers will be seeing.

The album, which I can only assume that it's to be titled Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, was recorded in Mexico, and produced by Oberst with help from Now It's Overhead's Andy LeMaster. It's due to released on August 4th.

It seems a lot of their tracks are available to check out on youtube (click), but for mp3 tasters and a full album tracklisting check out the read more...

Here are two tracks from Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band's performance at SXSW last month.

Let Them In:



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Cape Canaveral:



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Album tracklisting:

'Cape Cañaveral'
'Sausalito'
'Get-Well-Cards'
'Lenders In The Temple'
'Danny Callahan'
'I Don’t Want To Die (In The Hospital)'
'Eagle On A Pole'
'Moab'
'NYC -- Gone, Gone'
'Valle Místico (Ruben's Song)'
'Souled Out!!!'
'Milk Thistle'
Convinced? Tickets for Electric Picnic are still available here.

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