SWEET LIGHTS

Will be strumming again with Daniel Johnston this week in DC and...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:28:00 -0500

Will be strumming again with Daniel Johnston this week in DC and Philadelphia. Nov. 15th and 18th. It will resemble this:

Daniel Johnston (w/Sweet Lights) Tiny Desk Concert at NPR

Sweet Lights - Sweet Lights is out now on Highline Records. Buy...

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Sweet Lights - Sweet Lights is out now on Highline Records.

Buy it on CD or gatefold vinyl at www.sweetlights.bigcartel.com

Or grab it from your favorite local or online retailer, but you know…

Highline/Indie Darkroom CMJ SHowcase Sweet Lights - 3pm

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Highline/Indie Darkroom CMJ SHowcase

Sweet Lights - 3pm

Sweet Lights back in the UK this weekend! Headlining London show...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:16:00 -0400

Sweet Lights back in the UK this weekend!

Headlining London show on Friday night 8/31 at Wilmington Arms in my favorite neighborhood and former temporary home of Clerkenwell.

Saturday brings us to mega-chef Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival at Blur bassist Alex James’ cheese farm! Hope to sample tasty cheese as opposed to just performing some…

Playing the End of the Road on the main stage Sunday w/Patti Smith, Graham Coxon, Woods, Grandaddy.

Set time is 13:00.

Click thru for tix info and details

Daytrotter Session

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:15:04 -0400

Daytrotter Session

Rolling Stone Germany - June, 2012

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:18:00 -0400

Rolling Stone Germany - June, 2012

Zero stars in the Quietus

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:57:00 -0400

Zero stars in the Quietus:

Sweet Lights - Sweet Lights out NOW in the UK on CD, gatefold...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:11:00 -0400

Sweet Lights - Sweet Lights out NOW in the UK on CD, gatefold LP, and gatefold digital. Visit your local record store if yr local to the UK and grab a copy today! I’ve yet to see the vinyl so snap a photo and send it over.

4 stars in MOJO.

Sweeeeet.

New show just added! May 10th in Phila, PA w/Daniel...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:17:19 -0400

New show just added!

May 10th in Phila, PA w/Daniel Johnston
Tickets

(photo: David John Hartley)

Sweet Lights opening and backing Daniel for several songs. Will resemble THIS.

First official print review. 8/10 in Uncut. A bit more about...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:38:31 -0400

First official print review. 8/10 in Uncut.

A bit more about writer, Nigel Williamson.

SL in April’s issue of Uncut! Yes, it looks like track 15,...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:18:06 -0400

SL in April’s issue of Uncut!

Yes, it looks like track 15, but in fact Sweet Lights is track 1 on the “New Music” comp!

Dig it.

Sweet Lights ‘Endless Town’ 7” is out today in...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:46:14 -0400

Sweet Lights ‘Endless Town’ 7” is out today in the UK on limited edition transparent vinyl! B-side is a cover of the Traveling Wilburys classic ‘Handle With Care’. Limited to 300 copies, hand-numbered. Both tracks are also available to download worldwide.

Buy from Highline.

Sweet Lights joins Polica, live at Kung Fu Necktie. March 24th -...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:10:18 -0400

Sweet Lights joins Polica, live at Kung Fu Necktie.

March 24th - 8pm showtime

First show, one-man-band mode.

Tickets

Sweet Lights coming to the UK. More details soon!

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:00:05 -0500

Sweet Lights coming to the UK.

More details soon!

First SL-SL release reviews trickling in, from Uncut’s...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:48:56 -0500

First SL-SL release reviews trickling in, from Uncut’s Allan Jones no less! (from Wiki: One of Jones’s most significant early decisions was to resist the publisher’s instruction to put Kajagoogoo on the cover; instead, Jones chose The Smiths.)

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/uncut-editors-diary/the-ballad-of-kurt-vile-and-some-more-great-new-music

The March issue will feature “Ballad of KV” on the covermount cd.

Sweet!

New video by the great Albert Birney for “Endless...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:56:35 -0500

New video by the great Albert Birney for “Endless Town”, upcoming single on Highline Records. As premiered on the NME.

Albert also directed this oldie but goodie.

NME premieres the new video for “Endless...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:55:28 -0500

NME premieres the new video for “Endless Town”

Directed by Albert Birney & Vanessa Lauria, the clip features actual Sweet Lights ancestors.

Alexander Neumann - 19th and 20th century Austrian architect (great great grandfather)
Wilhelm Stiassny - also an Austrian architect! (1st cousin 4 times removed!)
Hedwig Pisling Neumann - 19th century painter (great great grandma)

And…my parents (guy in hot air balloon, mom with gun).

Ancestry!

Endless Town b/w Handle With Care is out on limited, transparent, hand numbered vinyl…March 5th on Highline Records.

I recorded a song… View the full feature...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:57:59 -0400

I recorded a song…

View the full feature at www.shakingthrough.com/sweetlights

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:00:00 -0400

Daniel Johnston with Sweet Lights Backstage Beatles covers in...

Tue, 24 May 2011 10:25:14 -0400

Daniel Johnston with Sweet Lights

Backstage Beatles covers in Brooklyn

More Daniel clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l41mwZMPcqE - “A Day in the Life”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9T5peAlunc - “Too Many People”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-u0SNLP7RM - “Cry Baby Cry”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrTFyAjv-LM - “For No One”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzu1f4fFCyQ - “Piano Suite”