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About Me

Half Light plays dreamy rock. Good for dark bars, candlelit basements, long drives, some enjoy making cookies.

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Member Since: 7/6/2005
Band Website: halflightmusic.net
Band Members: DAYNA LOEFFLER - vocals, rhythm guitar, pedal steel SCOTT MUHLBEIER - pretty guitar noises and rhythm BRIAN ACKLEY - more guitar noises and rhythm DAYNA SMITH - Bass and vocals JEFF BAARS - Drums
BARB HUNTER - Cello
Influences: Mojave Three, Mazzy Star, The Verve, Calexico, The Rolling Stones, Cowboy Junkies, Red House Painters, Acetone, Portishead, Lush, Curve, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, The Boo Radleys, Catherine Wheel, The Church, The Clientele, The Radar Brothers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Jesus & Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett, Luna, Slowdive, Ride, Spiritualized, Spacemen Three, Voyager One, Neko Case, Patti Griffin, Gillian Welch, Love & Rockets, INXS, Jimi Hendrix, American Music Club, Codeine, The Melvins, Ministry, Butthole Surfers, Eleni Mandell, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Kinski, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Tableland, Tarentel, Brian Eno, Swell, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Pavement, The Dears, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Robyn Hitchcock, Kristin Hersh, The Pixies, Diminished Men, Tim Buckley, Nick Cave, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Slint, Low, George Harrison, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Steve Reich, Creeping Charlies, REM, The Purrs, The English Beat, Led Zeppelin, The The, Grant Lee Philips, Jack Logan, Avril Lavigne, The Who, Man of the Year, Jeff Buckley, Arcade Fire
Sounds Like: Mojave 3, Mazzy Star, Cowboy Junkies, Curve, Acetone, Calexico, Red House Painters, Pink Floyd
Record Label: this isn't our day job
Type of Label: None

My Blog

more press from The Stranger for our cd release party

We just received a write-up in the The Stranger's "Up & Coming" events: (Comet) In the late 1990s, Seattle was rife with music to sway to drunkenly, and no band exemplified the local shoega...
Posted by Half Light on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:46:00 PST

down-tempo, electric lullabies for adults who dont necessarily want to sleep

We just received a nice little write up from the Louisville Eccentric Observer! These are down-tempo, electric lullabies for adults who don't necessarily want to sleep. Besides, dreaming is a much, mu...
Posted by Half Light on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:22:00 PST

First Press for our new record

Much thanks to Tom Scanlon at the Seattle Times, we have our first Press for our new record, and a reminder that we are rocking at the Comet tomorrow night. Here is the quote, from this article ...
Posted by Half Light on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:59:00 PST

new record...seriously

Folks, we do really almost have a new record now. We have changed the title from "Laser Half Light" to "Sleep More, Take More Drugs, Do Whatever We Want." The record sounds really great (if I may sa...
Posted by Half Light on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:50:00 PST

new record

Hiya All,Half Light are very pleased to let you know that our new album, "Laser Half Light" is being mixed right now. We should have new tunes up on the site mid-May and a cd shortly thereafter....
Posted by Half Light on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:46:00 PST

sunny fall friday

Hey there folks, I've been meaning to update the blog with some music raves, but haven't done so until now. First Calexico. Calexico played here in the summer and blew my mind, I couldn't ...
Posted by Half Light on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:31:00 PST

Well it's a rainy, cold, june friday in seattle

Well, thought I'd give this blog thing a try. I had to get to work really early today as the other project I play in (farfisa, precussion and back-up vox), the PURRS are headed down to the lovel...
Posted by Half Light on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:56:00 PST