Ten Million Lights are thrilled and honored to have been included in Big Takeover Magazines Top EPs of 2020. Its surreal to look at this list of amazing acts, including some of our favorite bands of all times, and see Shine So Bright come in at #16. Midnight To Six wrote an insightful piece about [...]
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End of An Era
While chaos ensued all around us in 2020, we turned our energy inward and put together a couple of fun surprises that will announce shortly. It was amazing for us to be able to release music we are very proud of this year and it was very rewarding to have a few DJs that we [...]
Glowing Review from The Big Takeover Magazine
The Big Takeover magazine listed Shine So Bright at number 18 on their Top 40 reviews in the latest issue and we couldn't be more proud. Jack Rabid wrote a glowing review saying it was, "A highly developed, pleasing post-punk maelstrom," with "blissed out overdriven neo-psych guitars... patient atmospherics, articulated power riffs, and elongated melodies." [...]
Dance, Dance, Dance, To The Radio
While it feels like we have been stuck behind black clouds for a while now, a few rays of light are starting to shine through. We are optimistic that change is happening and things will get brighter! One thing that has been helping us get through 2020 is listening to all the radio shows that [...]
Riding the Airwaves
This week was all about airplay. Mark Anderson from DKFM wrote an in-depth and spot-on review of our upcoming release. He says, "If you love your gaze on the heavy side then you'll love Ten Million Lights," and concluded that "Shine So Bright is one of those rare records where each song builds on the last, [...]
Northwest Music Scene showcase Ten Million Lights in 100 Bands 100 Days
Ten Million Lights are pleased to have been featured by Northwest Music Scene in their 6th annual year-end showcase 100 Bands 100 Days which also featured great bands like True Primitives, Souvenir Driver, and Aquamarine Space Unicorns among others. Day #34 is Ten Million Light's day and they say, "Today’s featured band has been at [...]
The Black Box reviews Ten Million Lights first record almost ten years later
Big thanks to King Lear who reviewed Ten Million Lights eponymous first record. He writes from France on The Black Box blog and had some beautiful words to say about the record almost ten years after its release. If you speak French then check it out here: https://blackboxbaby.blogspot.com/2019/06/ten-million-lights-ten-million-lights.html Please forgive the Google Translate version of the [...]
Airplay for Ten Million Lights
The last couple of months have been a whirlwind with releasing the Bellicose EP, our full length Sour Oranges and the upcoming Drummer's Dream EP. We have been very thankful for all the support we've gotten from DKFM, Primal Radio and DJ Ola from Ola's Kool Kitchen. We've also gotten a couple of fun spots [...]
TBTCI hosts Ten Million Lights for a Track by Track
Big thanks to Renato from The Blog That Celebrates Itself for asking Ten Million Lights to do a Track-By-Track on its new release Sour Oranges. Ryan, Eric, and Emily all contributed to discuss the lyrics, the songwriting and how they felt about the songs. Renato himself described the record as "Melodious noise", and "impossible to [...]
Swan Singing lauds Ten Million Lights
Thank you to Swan Singing, a blog from Poland who wrote a nice review of Sour Oranges. You can read the English translation below: "Obviously, they sing about love. As in my favourite track on the album, "Red Tornado", in which they blame the Cupid for treacherous shots. And they do it in particularly danceable [...]
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