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Lightning Dust — Infinite Light

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By Scott Bryson (CHARTattack) August 7, 2009 2:57 pm
There's definitely more energy present on Infinite Light than there was on Lightning Dust's self-titled debut, but its songs almost always fall short of a climax. They also tend to end much sooner, and more suddenly, than you might expect them to. Oddly enough, it's these frustrations that'll keep you coming back to Infinite Light. It's hard to...
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Lightning Dust, Vancougar Contribute To Christmas Album

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) December 1, 2009 4:27 pm
We thought respectable Christmas tunes started with Bright Eyes and ended with The Pogues. But it looks like we're wrong this year. Cameron Reed, the man behind Vancouver's celebrated Music Waste festival, is putting together The Eggnog Experience, a Christmas music compilation featuring names like Lightning Dust, Vancougar and Brasstronaut....
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Lightning Dust Touring Europe

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 21, 2009 1:13 pm
Lightning Dust will spend the last two months of 2009 on tour in Europe. Amber Webber and Joshua Wells, who are also members of Black Mountain, will launch the European jaunt by opening for The Cave Singers in the Netherlands on Nov. 26. The tour runs until Dec. 15 and closes in Switzerland. The duo are out in support of this year's Infinite...
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Lightning Dust — "Never Seen"

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By CHARTattack Staff September 23, 2009 3:27 pm
Here's Lightning Dust's creepy new video for Infinite Light's "Never Seen." It's full of freaky car rides in the back of vans, an austere father, a little girl roller skating and snowsuits.
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Lightning Dust Touring With Cave Singers

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) September 3, 2009 11:59 am
Lightning Dust have announced a few Canadian dates, and will spend September and October playing shows throughout North America with The Cave Singers. Black Mountain members Joshua Wells and Amber Webber are out in support of the recently released Infinite Light, while The Cave Singers are touring behind Invitation Songs. If you want to see...
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Lightning Dust Album Streaming Online

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 21, 2009 3:10 pm
Lightning Dust — the Black Mountain side project featuring that band's singer Amber Webber and drummer Joshua Wells — are streaming their new album, Infinite Light, on NPR. The duo's sophomore album and follow-up to their 2007 self-titled debut is streaming on the website two weeks before its Aug. 4 release date through Jagjaguwar. Wells told...
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Lightning Dust Projects Infinite Light

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 27, 2009 1:56 pm
Lightning Dust, the duo featuring Black Mountain singer Amber Webber and drummer Joshua Wells, will release their Infinite Light sophomore album on Aug. 4 through Jagjaguwar. The follow-up to 2007's self-titled debut was recorded at Vancouver's URSA studio and mixed by John Congleton (Black Mountain, The Polyphonic Spree) in Dallas, Texas....
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Get Free Pink Mountaintops Track

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) April 15, 2009 1:53 pm
Stephen McBean's Pink Mountaintops project are offering a free MP3 of "Vampires" from their upcoming Outside Love that you can download here. The disc is the third Pink Mountaintops album and first since 2006's Axis Of Evol. McBean's Black Mountain bandmates, drummer Joshua Wells and vocalist Amber Webber, will release an album with...
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Lightning Dust Tour Before Album Release

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By CHARTattack Staff April 2, 2009 3:39 pm
Lightning Dust have finished recording a still untitled album that will be released by Jagjaguwar in August. The Vancouver group's core duo of Black Mountain and Pink Mountaintops' Amber Webber and Joshua Wells recorded the follow-up to 2007's self-titled debut at Vancouver's URSA studio. It was mixed in Dallas, Texas by John Congleton (Black...
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Lightning Dust Are Recording

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 20, 2008 2:29 pm
When they're not playing with the Polaris Music Prize-nominated Black Mountain or Pink Mountaintops, Amber Webber and Joshua Wells record and perform as the folky Lightning Dust. They're set to begin recording the follow-up to last year's self-titled debut, which should be out sometime next year through Jagjaguwar. "After a busy year,...
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Lightning Dust Filled Gap During Black Mountain's Time Off

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By Brian Pascual (CHARTattack) October 16, 2007 4:30 pm
It's been more than two years since Vancouver's Black Mountain released their psych rock debut album to much acclaim and subsequently toured the world with the most logical of tourmates, Coldplay, but don't think that their members have been idle during the band's downtime. In the interim, Black Mountain army head soldier Stephen McBean...
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Part Of Black Mountain Struck By Lightning

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By Antoinette Mercurio (CHARTattack) March 29, 2007 5:00 pm
What happens when you want something different-sounding from the band you play in? Simple, start another one. That's what Amber Webber and Joshua Wells did. The Black Mountain members started a side project called Lightning Dust. Like Black Mountain, the duo are signed to Jagjaguwar, which will release their self-titled 10-track debut on June...
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