Lights will follow up a successful Euro run with Owl City with a nationwide headlining tour this fall. The dates kick off October 13th in Thunder Bay, ONT and run through November 13th in Buffalo, NY in support Lights' debut full-length album The Listening is out now on Sire Records.
Twenty three year-old singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist LIGHTS crafts sparkling, otherworldly electro-pop that has already garnered her over 24 million plays on MySpace, a #1 hit in Canada and the 2009 JUNO for New Artist of the Year.
LIGHTS was selected as an inaugural artist for MySpace's Introducing program, and she starred in her own short-form motion-comic series Audio Quest: A Captain LIGHTS Adventure, which aired on MTV and MTV.com. Rolling Stone 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." She was recently featured on an episode of MTV's hit reality program "The City," and performed on several dates of this summer's Lilith Fair.
LIGHTS also recently released a solo acoustic EP entitled LIGHTS.ACOUSTIC. The stripped-down collection of songs includes "River," "February Air" and "Saviour" off The Listening, as well as a cover of Rancid's "Fall Back Down" and a never before recorded track "Romance Is
" During its debut week on iTunes, the EP grabbed the #1 spot in Canada, and cracked the Top 10 in the USA.
LIGHTS headlining tour dates are as follows:
Oct 13 Crocks Thunder Bay, ONT
Oct 15 Burton Cummings Winnipeg, MB
Oct 16 Odeon Events Centre Saskatoon, SK
Oct 17 MacEwan Ballroom Calgary, AB
Oct 18 Edmonton Event Centre Edmonton, AB
Oct 20 Vogue Theater Vancouver, BC
Oct 22 Berbati's Pan Portland, OR
Oct 23 El Corazon Seattle, WA
Oct 25 Slim's San Francisco, CA
Oct 26 El Rey Los Angeles, CA
Oct 27 The Underground Mesa, AZ
Oct 29 Propher Bar Dallas, TX
Oct 30 Emo's Austin, TX
Oct 31 - Warehouse Live Houston, TX
Nov 02 Backbooth Orlando., FL
Nov 03 Masquerade Atlana, GA
Nov 04 Rockettown Nashville, TN
Nov 05 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL
Nov 06 Eagle Theater Pontiac, MI
Nov 07 Musica Akron, OH
Nov 09 Middle East Boston, MA
Nov 10 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
Nov 11 Ottobar Baltimore, MD
Nov 12 North Star Bar Philadelphia, PA
Nov 13 Mohawk Place Buffalo, NY