Tag: Sex & Sound

  • working on it

    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…

  • Sell it all, baby: part II

    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…

  • Radio Review Drama

    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…

  • Finished at Long Last!!!

    Finished at Long Last!!!

    We’ve finally finished the recording, and having started back in June of ’09 it’s about damn time! The master came back from London late last Wednesday and by Thursday night was declared most satisfactory. Stream the pre-release single “Your Love/Not Enough” now from the Violet Lights’ homepage, myspace, or facebook pages OR sign up on…

  • Late Night PST

    Late Night PST

    Thursday — 06-01-2011 — 1000 hrs. — GMT Amber and I successfully transfered 5 Top Secret Files to a secure server at: Metropolis Mastering — Chiswick High Road — London — UK …and with that our production work on the Sex & Sound EP is drawn to a close. Thanks to Graham, Geoff, Jeb, Thom,…

  • A Blow Upon a Bruise

    A Blow Upon a Bruise

    …so I’m really not drinking all that much, but did manage -while vacuuming- to undo several weeks work just completed. –RIP Gibson Melody Maker in Violet Lights Violet– …we also happened across information that lead to the discovery of ongoing credit fraud in my name. And have begun climbing a sludgy hill of phone calls…

  • Sell it all, baby

    Sell it all, baby

    It’s not unusual for Joel and I to start selling our possessions when trying to finish a project. For years we’ve had a revolving door through which guitars, amplifiers, cameras, lenses, lights, computers, and innumerable other memorable and not-so-memorable items come and go, depending on whether they are worth more to us as tools or…

  • I have been placed under a Voodoo hex…

    I have been placed under a Voodoo hex…

    Orson Welles once claimed that the reason he became increasingly unable to finish any films as his career progressed was a Voodoo curse placed on him by a witch doctor while he filmed a documentary in Brazil. Lately Joel, too, has been fond of muttering in a low, theatrically serious tone “I have been placed…

  • Third time’s the charm…?

    Third time’s the charm…?

    There are already two attempts in the books at getting Sex & Sound EP mixed in a high-quality and timely fashion, and we are now trying for a third, and we hope, last time, to bring this recording one step away from completion. The tracks have been sent to a producer/mixer/engineer in Austin, Texas and…