Matthew Ryan Oberst Jr. (January 3, 1974 – November 27, 2016) was an American musician who was front man of the indie rock band Sorry About Dresden.
[2] His youngest brother is singer-songwriter Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes.
Living in North Carolina, Oberst found another Nebraska transplant, Matt Tomich, and the duo started Sorry About Dresden with Eric Roehrig and James Hepler in Chapel Hill in 1996.
Oberst was an English teacher at Sterling Montessori School.
[1][2] In 2016, he died in his home in Cary, North Carolina at the age of 42.