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Lights
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 Keytar-wielding
synth-pop sensation LIGHTS is starring in Audio Quest: A
Captain LIGHTS Adventure. The short-form motion comic series,
which features the art of Marvel Comics artist Tomm Coker,
premieres today, Monday, September 28, 2009 on-air during
MTV's AMTV and online at MTV.com. Each Audio Quest episode,
of which there will be ten in all, follows Captain LIGHTS
as a super-hero on a galactic adventure to restore sound
to the universe. Audio Quest is a natural evolution for
LIGHTS: a talented visual artist herself, she is no stranger
to science fiction and the world of comics.
"MTV saw a unique opportunity to bring together LIGHTS
with Tomm Coker, a renowned visual artist from the comics
world. The outcome is a stunning visual expression of a
pop artist's point of view," said Joe Cuello, Vice
President, Creative Music Integration, MTV.
The 22-year-old Toronto singer, songwriter, producer and
multi-instrumentalist crafts her own brand of sparkling,
otherworldly electro-pop that is, in her words "soft,
but not pussy-soft, you know?" LIGHTS' songs have already
garnered over 17 million plays on MySpace, and on the strength
of her self-titled EP alone, LIGHTS won the 2009 JUNO for
New Artist of the Year.
LIGHTS' debut full-length album The Listening will
be released in the US October 6, 2009. The video for her
first single "Saviour" premiered on MySpace last
month and immediately shot to the number one spot. It has
remained one of the top videos on MySpace with close to
one million views and counting. Rolling Stone has already
called LIGHTS a "retro new wave...keytar-rocking pixie,"
and the Toronto Star praised her as "the very epitome
of D.I.Y.pin-up cool."
To support The Listening LIGHTS will be heading out
on her first ever US headlining tour. The nationwide string
of dates, which come on the heels of her Canadian tour with
Keane, kick off October 2nd in Philadelphia, PA and run
through November 6th in Seattle, WA. Portland, Oregon indie
pop trio Stars of Track and Field will be supporting.
Visit www.mtv.com to watch the first episode of Audio Quest:
A Captain LIGHTS Adventure, click on www.IAMLIGHTS.com or
www.myspace.com/lights to see and hear LIGHTS, and check
out www.corvxstudios.com for more on Tomm Coker.
Watch the first episode of Audio Quest
here
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