The Lights Out

The Lights Out is a rock band that formed in 2005, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Biography

The Lights Out started when Rishava Green and Matt King met in the Model Café in Allston, Massachusetts, where they formed a band before ever playing a note together. Green had recently written and recorded eleven tracks that were later named Douglas Sessions ’05 with the purpose of attracting the right band members. In October 2006, Jesse James joined on drums. Adam Ritchie joined on guitar in June 2007. Both James and Ritchie attend Syracuse University the same time, never meeting before joining the band. In October the band released a self-titled EP, The Lights Out (EP). Late-2007 saw the band blitzing Boston with a string of shows supporting the record.

The band released their follow-up five-song EP ¡Heist! in June 2008.

By September 2009 the band had taken the songs from their previous EPs and put them together with a new batch of compositions to create their first LP, Color Machine. That year, the band was a semifinalist in the WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble and headlined a showcase at CMJ Music Marathon. In May they played Gillette Stadium to open the The Patriots season.

Color Machine

Color Machine is an album by Boston-based rock group The Lights Out inspired from the tracks on their ep's The Lights Out (EP) and ¡Heist!. It was self-released in September 2009.

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The album received positive reviews and listings from publications and websites such as

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The Lights Out (EP)

The Lights Out (EP) is an EP by Boston-based rock group The Lights Out. It was self-released in 2007. The majority of the songs were later used to create The Lights Out first LP Color Machine.

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Lights Out

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88888 Lights Out

88888 Lights Out was a campaign with the stated goal of increasing awareness of global warming and promoting actions to reduce energy consumption. By encouraging India's residents to turn out the lights for eight minutes and to become more aware of environmental concerns, the organisers sought to limit greenhouse gas emissions and reduce pollution of the globe.

Campaign organisation

The campaign was started by Exnora International, a non-governmental organisation in India. It called for people to switch off their lights for eight minutes at 8 p.m. on August 8, 2008 (8-8-8-8-8) to spread awareness and take action to reduce energy consumption and the resulting environmental damage.

In the city of Chennai, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala ordered the lights off in Raj Bhavan at 8 p.m. for 8 minutes and said that an awakening should be created among the people of all walks of life on the root cause of global warming, it occurred at the very beginning of the 2008 Olympics.

The effort has been part of a wider effort by the groups involved to bring attention to environmental issues.

Lights Out (radio show)

Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum.

History

The Wyllis Cooper era

In the fall of 1933, NBC writer Wyllis Cooper conceived the idea of "a midnight mystery serial to catch the attention of the listeners at the witching hour." The idea was to offer listeners a dramatic program late at night, at a time when the competition was mostly airing music. At some point, the serial concept was dropped in favor of an anthology format emphasizing crime thrillers and the supernatural. The first series of shows (each 15 minutes long) ran on a local NBC station, WENR, at midnight Wednesdays, starting in January 1934. By April, the series proved successful enough to expand to a half hour. In January 1935, the show was discontinued in order to ease Cooper's workload (he was then writing scripts for the network's prestigious Immortal Dramas program), but was brought back by huge popular demand a few weeks later. After a successful tryout in New York City, the series was picked up by NBC in April 1935 and broadcast nationally, usually late at night and always on Wednesdays. Cooper stayed on the program until June 1936, when another Chicago writer, Arch Oboler, took over. By the time Cooper left, the series had inspired about 600 fan clubs.

Turn the Lights Out

Turn the Lights Out is the third album from American indie/garage rock band, The Ponys. It was released on 20 March 2007. It was the first album from the band to be released on Matador Records, having been previously signed to In the Red Records.

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All songs written by Jered Gummere, Melissa Elias, Nathan Jerde, and Brian Case.

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Turn the Lights Out (Hadouken! song)

"Turn the Lights Out" is a single by British Grindie band Hadouken! from their second album, For the Masses. It was released digitally on 20 December 2009, peaking at #2 on the UK Electronic Music Chart.

Music video

The promotional video for the song shows the band playing in a living room that looks to have been badly scorched and burned. A long haired, unshaven man covered in dirt breaks through the floorboards and picks up a Gramophone record and plays it on a turntable. A gathering of dancing people then appear around the band, and the aforementioned man begins to trash the room. As the video ends the man sits down in his armchair and the record stops playing.

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