'Audio Quest: A Captain LIGHTS Adventure' Premieres Monday, September 28 on MTV and MTV.com.New Motion Comic Series Stars Electro-Pop Artist LIGHTS LIGHTS' Debut Full Length Album 'The Listening' out Oct 6th 2009 BURBANK, Calif. -- Keytar-wielding synth-pop sensation LIGHTS is starring in Audio Quest: A Captain LIGHTS Adventure. The short-form motion comic series, which features the art of Marvel Comics artist A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part. Tomm Coker, premieres today, Monday, September 28, 2009 on-air during MTV's AMTV AMTV Agrupación de Mujeres Tierra Viva (Womens' Group for the Living Earth, Guatemala) and online at MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. .com. Each Audio Quest episode, of which there will be ten in all, follows Captain LIGHTS as a super-hero on a galactic adventure to restore sound to the universe. Audio Quest is a natural evolution for LIGHTS: a talented visual artist herself, she is no stranger to science fiction and the world of comics. "MTV saw a unique opportunity to bring together LIGHTS with Tomm Coker, a renowned visual artist from the comics world. The outcome is a stunning visual expression of a pop artist's point of view," said Joe Cuello, Vice President, Creative Music Integration, MTV. The 22-year-old Toronto singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist crafts her own brand of sparkling, otherworldly electro-pop that is, in her words "soft, but not pussy-soft, you know?" LIGHTS' songs have already garnered over 17 million plays on MySpace, and on the strength of her self-titled EP alone, LIGHTS won the 2009 JUNO for New Artist of the Year. LIGHTS' debut full-length album The Listening will be released in the US October 6, 2009. The video for her first single "Saviour" premiered on MySpace last month and immediately shot to the number one spot. It has remained one of the top videos on MySpace with close to one million views and counting. Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person has already called LIGHTS a "retro new waveOkeytar-rocking pixie," and the Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. praised her as "the very epitome of D.I.Y.pin-up cool." To support The Listening LIGHTS will be heading out on her first ever US headlining tour. The nationwide string of dates, which comes on the heels of her Canadian tour with Keane, kicks off October 2nd in Philadelphia, PA and runs through November 6th in Seattle, WA. Portland, Oregon indie pop trio Stars of Track and Field will be supporting. Visit http://www.mtv.com/ to watch the first episode of Audio Quest: A Captain LIGHTS Adventure, click on http://www.iamlights.com/ or www.myspace.com/lights to see and hear LIGHTS, and check out www.corvxstudios.com for more on Tomm Coker. LIGHTS headlining tour dates are as follows: 10/2 - North Star Bar - Philadelphia, PA 10/3 - Sonar Lounge - Baltimore, MD 10/4 - Middle East - Boston, MA 10/6 - Mercury Lounge The Mercury Lounge is a music venue in the Lower East Side section of New York City. 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