Tag: Los Angeles
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working on it
The college radio campaign for Sex & Sound began yesterday, and we still have our fingers crossed as to the results. In the meantime, though, we have plenty of planning and preparation on our hands in order to make our goal of going on tour this fall a reality. We were also asked by the…
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Sell it all, baby: part II
What do you do when you need a lot of money but you don’t have nearly enough time to earn it by the hour? Sell off your stuff, baby…a lot of it. The last time Joel and I did this was in November in order to finish recording Sex & Sound. Now we are at…
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Hard to understand
It’s rare that I really understand why things happen the way they do, or why the people around me do the things they do. But sometimes the desire to understand becomes such a hopeless cause it becomes overwhelming. For awhile, this past week seemed to be going great: on Thursday we played an excitingly well-attended…
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Radio Review Drama
Last night, Joel and I listened to the very first, real time, on-air review of a song by The Violet Lights. It was on Moheak Music Meeting, hosted by former Capitol records A&R exec Bruce Rave with guests Alex Ebert, leader of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Reg B. and Rayne from Moheak’s…
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musician/roadie
When Joel’s not writing songs, rehearsing, playing shows, working, or remodeling our lockout, he’s disassembling music equipment all over our apartment floor, firing up his soldering iron and getting his amps, guitars and pedals to work or work better. Oftentimes this goes down in the middle of a Saturday afternoon, but sometimes its minutes before…
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Busy…but not busy enough
This past week, The Violet Lights played three shows, and although we had to do all that on top of our day jobs, I can say that it was fun and it was definitely exciting to be so busy. We must be closer to being able to work on music full time…right?? Thanks so much…
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a little less glamorous
Most projects undertaken by Joel and I (and any unfortunate souls we can convince to get involved!), for some reason, always take much longer and turn out to be more work than we originally envisioned. But perfectionists as we are, rarely a project we start will be finished with a half-hearted effort. In this case,…
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WE ARE THE VIOLET LIGHTS
The sound guy at The Viper Room as we finish our set and the curtains just close, “I hope you guys know that you fucking rocked.” The Violet Lights played their first show on Tuesday, and although only some fifty people were there to witness it, the show was nothing short of a huge milestone.…
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Silverlake Squalor
Okay…squalor might be too strong of a word, but having moved in a rush less than two weeks ago, holding three late-night band rehearsals a week, going out and drinking more than we probably should, being broke, and just plain not being able to grasp whether things are going really well or horribly wrong, can…