The Bigger Lights

Saturday January 22, 2011 from 6:00pm - 8:30pm

To them, it’s simple. You can send an artist to make a record with the hottest, most expensive producer on the market. You can dress them in the most fashionable clothes and give them the edgiest haircuts money can buy. You can market them on every website, every magazine, every radio station, and every television outlet at your disposal. But all else equal, there will never be a better sales pitch for any artist at the end of the day than having great songs and The Bigger Lights are a band committed practicing what they preach. With the 2010 release of their debut full length record on Doghouse Records, simply titled “The Bigger Lights,” one of pop music’s best kept secrets is arguably about to get the chance to begin preaching their message to a much larger audience.

Of course, this wasn’t an overnight revelation. It took two and half years of pursuing music full-time for The Bigger Lights to realize that one of the hardest parts of being career musicians is learning how to always put the music first. “It’s funny how when you start playing music, it’s easy to keep the focus in the right places since you’re only really doing it for yourself,” observes lead singer Topher Talley. “But the deeper you get into the business of being a band, the more pressure you start to feel when you look around at what general trends people seem to be reacting to, and that can a dangerous game.”

After forming in the summer of 2007 in Fairfax, Virginia, the band was quickly picked up by Absolute Management [All Time Low, Every Avenue, The Friday Nights Boys] and Doghouse Records/Warner Music Group [The All-American Rejects, The Get Up Kids, Say Anything] within their first year as a band. “When we made our first EP [Fiction Fever, 2008] for the label, we were still such a new band that we sort of self-imposed this vision of what we wanted to make based on what we thought a new band in our position had t