By Ryan Broderick

Backstage before the Boys Like Girls concert at the Adams Playhouse, Lights was busy getting ready to warm up the crowd. In an interview she did before sound check though, she opened up about her career, how the tour has been going, what fans can expect from her in the future, and how she hoped the night would go.

Lights, born Valerie Poxleitner, hailing from Toronto, may be new to the states, but she’s not new to playing music. She was home schooled growing up, where her parents would teach her music on Tuesdays. At eleven, she got her first guitar and wrote her first song.

Since then though, she’s been tinkering with every style she’s come into contact with. At home she felt like she had the freedom to do whatever she believed in. “Being home schooled, there’s like no boundaries to what you could do. My parents were really supportive.”

Poxleitner was picked up by BMG at age 15 and from then on dabbled in every musical style she could, from acoustic, to pop punk, to even playing guitar in a metal band.

Settling on the current sound she’s been writing in lately though, was a bit by accident. She was in the studio recording her song “February Air” when she decided to change up the production. “I was playing around with it and then I was like let’s just use all inorganic sounds and just like make it more of a painting than a song.”

As for what the University was to expect out of her on Saturday night though, was a live set performed by herself, live drummer Maury, and back up keyboard player Adam, mixing live electronics and prerecorded samples. She was in good spirits though about opening for a crowd that might not know her. On a previous tour she had opened for Protest The Hero and Chiodos, “Opening for tech metal bands, now that’s a challenge.”

After recently completing her newest video, this newcomer to the music business, has a lot of plans. She plans for her full length to be released by next year and another video is on its way.

Her biggest claim to fame thus far though, is becoming part of Old Navy’s newest ad campaign.