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

Someone tell them they can buy Andre's pink champagne for around $5.

i'm just saying i don't think "cream rises to the top" is really a myth

especially since "word of mouth" is way more of a thing now in the age of endless internet discussion and RYM

i guess i go back and forth on it. half the time i hear something and think "that's amazing, why doesn't everybody know about this?", it ends up getting some shine sooner or later. but most everyone has friends or local artists that do great work and never get heard on a wide level.

i mean, by definition you're only going to know about the cream that does in fact rise to the top, right?

yeah but a. there's no universal definition of cream b. there's too much music made and people only care so much

I've seen a ton of random opening bands and it always seems like the ones that I enjoyed were the ones I'd see discussed on ILX/making 2nd or 3rd albums (Holy Fuck, Man Man, and Future Islands come to mind)

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 30 January 2012 18:02 (20 minutes ago) Permalink

Those bands are all on pretty decent-sized labels though!

And unknown bands rarely even get opening spots for name bands without some kind of manager/publicist/booking agent/label

maybe they will when publicists don't have jobs anymore

just wait it out

just concentrate on being sexy and drugs is my advice

2 U 2 LITES

http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/4/4f/Madred,_four_lights.jpg

it feels so right that this band has come to ILX about one year after we first received the gift of pomplemousse

all we need is googlers and its the new dave matthews band thread

oh did the dmb thread get googlers?

thats kind of what made the dmb thread what it is

Any real or musical reasons to hate two lights? They do all sorts of music. Acoustic stuff, good improvisational stuff, are great live, have the respect of fellow musicians like astronautalis and Santana. All the mebers are great musicians. And the actual songs are good.
They wouldn't have been featured by TIME - MONEY or spent $100,000 if they weren't any good. The likes of Pomplamoose would love to work with them.

^^yo buzza get in this thread and type this dude's name out in the add a post box

They wouldn't have been featured by TIME - MONEY or spent $100,000 if they weren't any good.

Show your working.

gonna take a wild stab that the 'working' is that it's c+p'd from a comment box somrwhere

gonna take a wild stab that the commenter was named Lou Tights

Sufjan Grafton only has two other posts besides that, and one of them is making fun of two lights itt, so i'd assume that's c+p'd

c+p'd from DMB:NYRWTASBAH. Was just trying to be your random googler, but I can't afford the associated lost wages. How does one ILX and hold down a full time job?

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