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Lights Over Reno

About Me

We started playing in November, 2006. Our first E.P., Stranger was recorded in July 2007 at Clay Creek Recording Studio in Newark, DE, and is available on CD or MP3 at CDBaby.com and iTunes (click on the link below). We'll release our full-length debut in 2009. We are now booking shows in Baltimore, DC, Philadelphia, and the beach. For booking, send us a myspace message or email us - [email protected]. Thanks for stopping by!


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Member Since: 09/12/2006
Band Website: www.lightsoverreno.com
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We have been fortunate enough to share the stage with these bands:
The Seldon Plan, Walleye, Tony Travellini, McRad, IdleMinds, Soldier’s Daughter, Nate Farrar, Banned Books, Without Logic, Kokies Enemy, Show N Tell, Milton & the Devil’s Party, Survival Rate Zero, Spontaneous Underground, Bojibian, Chemical Dependency, Shattered Beneath the Shade, Cellar Door, Solitary System, New Plateau, Galaxy 13, Jenny Bostick, Vox Humana, Vilebred, Disgruntled Sherpa Project, Low Water, Alright Junior, Godinez Brothers, Paintbox, Twenty 30, Shon Brooks, Milp Silskin, Scott Phillip, Kissing Party, The Jim Jims, Crash of '64, Dragons Never Tire

At these venues: World Café Live, Mojo 13, East End Café, Pale Dog Tavern, Union Tavern, Bank Shots (Pike Creek & Stanton), Rox Bar & Grill, Christiana Pub, Back Street Café, Bootleggers, Whiskey Tango, Octoraro Hotel & Tavern, Doc Watsons, JD McGillicuddy's (Philadelphia), The M Room



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Influences: Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, The Pixies, Jets to Brazil, Sunny Day Real Estate, Constantines, ...And You will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Zen Guerilla, The Flaming Lips, Buffalo Tom, The Frames, Interpol, Sonic Youth, and on, and on, and on...
Sounds Like: People have said:
"Jets to Brazil with a pop!"
"Motorhead meets Built to Spill"

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Recording Full-Length CD / Download EP for free

We've begun recording our first full-length CD. In the spirit of the DIY ethic, we have constructed our own studio and are now playing around with giant foam panels, excessive tangles of wires, moving...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:01:00 GMT

Battles won, battles lost

Our participation with the Project Mayhem Battle of the Bands has come to a close. In round one we shut out The Terribles with a score of 58 to zero. Yes, a shutout. If The Terribles had shown up, the...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:18:00 GMT

Fair Lee Well

One of the four founding members of our band, Lee Tillinghast, has officially left Reno. In this, there was no bad blood. No hard feelings. Just separate paths. That may not be very rock n roll, but s...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:18:00 GMT

Mojo 13 last weekend

Last weekend, we had the priveledge to play with some great bands at Mojo 13: Idle Minds, McRad, and Walleye. The show was a benefit for the Wilmington Skate Project, which has a plan for an awesome s...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 20:34:00 GMT

CD now available! And Contest!

First, thanks to everyone who came out to MOJO 13 last week.We now have our 3 song demo available at CD Baby for anyone who's interested.The CD is $4.99, the eco-friendly version (mp3) is $2.99. Click...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:18:00 GMT

Getting Busy

July has been a busy month so far. The songs you hear on our page were recently recorded at Clay Creek Studios in Newark, DE by Nick Rotundo (a good guy with a fine ear and a killer studio). We h...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:14:00 GMT

The Best Things in Life are Free

Hello Blog Reader. Free music! The songs currently posted were recorded live at practice with a 4-track cassette recorder. Soon they will be replaced with fancy-shmancy new recordings from Clay Creek ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:30:00 GMT

Hi, How Are You?

You might have noticed we finally got some music up! We kind of got tired of waiting on finishing the final recordings of a few songs and just decided to post some stuff we're working on. We'll probab...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:17:00 GMT