Author: Amber
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ghosts
Last week Joel and I gave our 30-day notice to move out of the rehearsal space we’ve rented here in Los Angeles since February. Although undeniably the wisest choice in terms of achieving our goals, there is no way, for now, that it doesn’t hurt. Over the past 8 months, Joel and I (mostly Joel,…
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Another New World
There is a song by Josh Ritter that tells the story of a 16th century explorer who had spent his life sailing the world’s oceans in search of new lands. On what would be his final voyage, a quest to discover a new world in the Arctic, his beloved ship becomes irretrievably trapped in the…
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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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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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Live at The Viper Room
I got my greedy little hands on some awesome photos from our first ever show! Thanks so much to Ray Lundrigan from PhotoLinguist. The Violet Lights perform at The Viper Room…Billy McIntyre of The Violet Lights performing at The Viper Room…