Two Lights! They're a band! They worry about money!

I mean, I am just puzzled here; did these guys never go to any shows in high school and, more importantly, did they never do any performances ever while high school or college? I don't see how the fantasy of lush extravagant accommodations can survive one or two performances.

still loling about

make a buzz make a buzz make a buzz make a buzz make a buzz make a buzz make a buzz make a buzz make a buzz

that entire paragraph is just flat-out stupid

much like the rest of the piece

Guy's a freelance writer, man, he ain't stupid

I noticed there's no mention of tour costs in his list of expenses. He just talks about how they "rocked" some of the top clubs in NYC.

that's because they haven't gone on tour

•Performing. For gigs here in New York, we hire taxis to lug our keyboards, stands, guitars,basses, amplifiers and drums to and from the venue. Whatever cash we earn beyond that usually goes to our current drummer. And expenses soar when we hit the road. Cost to date: $1,000.

Hit the road in a NY taxi that is. I assume they're hoping to make a buzz before they tour.

soar all the way to $1000

I think their tour must have run the gamut from Hempstead to Uniondale

they actually just take ny taxis across the country

v poor budgeting decision

I stand corrected. Sort of.

that's because they haven't gone on tour

watch the video.
they have been on the subway.
surely that's a touring cost he should include in their career-to-date rundown ?

(xpost)

Maybe their parents bought a subway train for them

oh yeah the TL line I always forget about that one

it's not very useful it runs from NYU to all the most rockin clubs in manhattan

If you want to have REAL fun, please to enjoy their Twitter feed and some of their...selective RTs.

https://twitter.com/#!/twolightsband

78 followers. glad to see that publicity $$ was well-spent.

Once upon a time, the suits at the record labels funded the enterprise. Your band would play local clubs in a major city, make a buzz, and an A&R (artists and repertory) guy would sign you and write you a blank check.

Yeah, that's exactly how indie bands used to operate

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 16:00 (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also: repertory?

I guess this is proof that boys like to play dress up and make believe too. It's a little late for that, but I get it.

These guys are obv doofuses but this is the obvious endpoint of the idea that everyone who wants to play music deserves/has to be a career musician.

On one level, their "treat it all like a business" approach isn't that far removed from Big Black or Fugazi. On another level, DIE IN A FIRE.

Hmm, this is basically Raygun 2.0: Rich Parent's Edition.

My brother bought me a ukelele once, and Xmas before last I got a pennywhistle from my sister

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what a pair of assholes

― SELF DEPORTATION (Z S), Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Bit harsh on my brother and sister, don't you think?

lol

Once again Mark E Smith displays his psychic prowess. From "Winter 2" off Hex Enduction Hour:

The mad kid had 4 lights, the average is 2.5 lights
The mediocre has 2 lights, the sign of genius is three lights
There's one light left, that's the one light
That's the science law

I would like these people to meet with an unfortunate accident.

they already did; they accidentally made themselves look like huge douches in Time Magazine

http://sickmouthy.com/2012/01/26/on-selling-out-and-privilege-in-music/

Obviously this is a foolish move on their part and they come across terribly, but at least they're not pretending to be something they're not (unlike 99.9% of other NYC bands).

dunno, it does seem like they're pretending to be a good band.

Thanks to our man on the inside it made Gawker.

Oh and there's damage control under way at the Twitter feed.

I want to know where they live <-- real nyc talk

i mean it kind of is rough out there, it cost Low $2.7 million to just release 'i could live in hope'

"aerosmith" reached his pinnacle thanks to a fortuitous lotto win

ian svenonius received a quietly generous financial gift from steve jobs, allowing him to get weird war going.

what a pair of assholes

I have a friend from a v. wealthy family and these guys really remind me of her little brother. I think his dad built his band a studio.

I was all set to write a self-righteous post about Two Lights' clueless public display of entitlement, but these guys did it better and used bagpipes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iR2Wi3u5o

Anyway, fight the real enemy

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/popcrush.com/files/2011/06/Karmin.jpg

We've been mentored by former British rock stars

must've been Gay Dad

no they mentored young heart attack

Harper Willis graduated from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at New York University with a concentration in ancient theater and jazz guitar. He is a musician and writer, and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

wow, cool!

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

swear to god the second verse of their single sounds like it starts with "waiting til the dawn to try and pee/promises i thought that i could keep"

those are cool lyrics!

I'm way behind the curve, but the Two Lights parody is legit awesome.

Beyond them sucking, I find it hard to believe anyone thinks that kind of sugary pop in the Youtube video linked near the top would be the basis for a money-making career. It's like an even more watered down and inoffensive Phantom Planet - and what happened to them after they lost the Coppola connection?

Sufjan Grafton

and what happened to them after they lost the Coppola connection?

They're hoping for a resurgence of The O.C..

aaaaaand the two lights bandcamp has been pulled ;_;

keep working hard, two lights. live your dream. http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Sufjan Grafton

― ⚓ (gr8080)

The Twolight Saga: Bandcamp Down

lol am0n

I'm sorry gr8080 and buzza, but I cannot pay you for your efforts toward creating a Sufjan Grafton "buzz"

Sufjan Grafton

Two Lights would be a good name for a venture capital fund, which is kind of what these guys look like anyway.

Sufjan Grafton's "I is for Indie"

something about this reminds me of that endlessly sad harper's story from years ago about when the guy from sabalon glitz tried to "go pop."

i guess there are dozens of similarly sad stories. (at least that dude seemed to have a shred of self-awareness.) they're just not usually written from the artist's perspective.

ha wow I didn't know anything abt the Sabalon Glitz guy's career trajectory but reading up on it it's fairly bonkers

fake facebook got pulled too

i gotta say their lawyers are really earning their money today

their lawyers came up w/ their cool name iirc

they are lawyers iirc, in the future

Someday they will be earning more than those lawyers! Just you wait!

someday they will be earning the same as lawyers as lawyers

How many unearned wages were lost in the past 12 days since this thread's been updated?

won't somebody please think of the children who won't be born because two lights won't have the money to support music lessons for their own family? don't you want the unborn sons and daughters of two lights to have a firm grasp of harmony and phrasing? shame on us all!

lol

Gotta be them:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/mar/3282106595.html

douches be janglin

They should do a Kickstarter