Craig Chambers: guitar, vocals
PJ Rogalski: drums
Jeff Albertson: bass, vocals

SHORT VERSION

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The Lights play rock music.

The Lights have been playing together since 1998. Tour stops include CMJ 2000 in New York, Missoula, Portland, Eugene, Boise, Seattle and Bellingham.

Self-released EP, recorded by Erik Blood (guitarist for The Turn-ons) and produced by Erik Blood and The Lights. The Lights are currently working to release a full-length LP, also recorded by Erik Blood.

The Lights we're featured in The Stranger's One Night Stand column, March 14, 2002.

The Lights debut EP has been featured on John Richard's Audioasis radio show on KEXP as well as on 107.7 FM's The Young and the Restless. The Lights played live on KEXP's Audioasis on March 22, 2003.


LONG VERSION

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The Lights have been playing rock music for 7+ years. As a band, a musical collective and brotherhood the trio goes back more than 10 years. Guitarist Craig Chambers and drummer PJ Rogalski grew up together in the college town of Pullman, Washington. As teenagers each played in local bands. Chambers most notably in the Exothermics and Rogalski in Thin Section, which featured one-time Treepeople and Stuntman guitarist John Polle. Bassist Jeff Albertson grew up 30 miles south in Lewiston, Idaho and played bass and sang in local bands Shamus and Glow. Pullman's notorious "White House" was the scene for many a basement punk show that brought all three together.

In the mid 1990s all three moved to Boise, Idaho and started playing together in a noisy-rock trio called The Left Coast. A second guitarist, Sean M. Lennon (not John's son) was added. As a four piece the group released a trio of 7-inch singles and we're featured on Boise label Fort Hazel Magic's Compilation Here, along side Stuntman, Built to Spill and a then relatively unknown Ryan Adams of Whiskeytown. Several Northwest tours included stops in Missoula, Pullman, Eugene, Kelso, Portland and Seattle.

When Chambers and Rogalski decided to move back to their home state to attend college in 1998 The Left Coast ended. In Seattle, Chambers, Rogalski and Albertson started a new band– The Lights. After nearly two-years of playing every dive-bar in town the band set out for CMJ 2000 in New York City. The trip was enlightening, and inspiring. The band has since been playing steadily in Seattle, where they've been described by local press as "quite simply, fucking amazing", as well as frequent trips to Portland, Missoula, Bellingham and Eugene.

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