REAPPEARED ONES

Conor Oberst is ready to fight

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Webster Hall

125 E. 11th St.
New York, NY 10003

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Region: East Village

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It may have taken Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst a decade, but by last year, he had witnessed enough injustice to re-form his activist-minded, raw-sounding post-hardcore group Desaparecidos. That group, whose name translates to “disappeared ones” and references 30,000 Argentinians whom the country’s military dictatorship seemingly erased from existence in the ’70s and ’80s, only released one album in its first run, 2002’s Read Music/Speak Spanish. But then they found inspiration for a new song in the anti-immigration screeds of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who works in that state’s Maricopa County. Last year, they released the song “MariKKKopa” about Arpaio, as one face of a double-A-sided single. Now, they’re returning, full of ire, with the single “Anonymous,” this time praising the Occupy movement with the declaration, “You can’t stop us/We are anonymous.” Them’s fightin’ words.
Tue., Feb. 26, 7 p.m.; Wed., Feb. 27, 7 p.m., 2013