The Lighthouse and The Whaler: Archive

Feb 5th

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Feb 5th

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Jan 1st

Dec 30th

GET TO KNOW THE BAND MONTH!: Aaron Smith

This Week is the final week, we saved the best for last….AARON! Isn’t he so good looking? My name is Aaron Smith, and I am a violinist. I’m not a very good violinist. I also play the piano, guitar, and sing, but I’m not very good at any of those things. I’m not really very good at anything, but I pretend to be and sometimes I trick people. I spent the first years of my life running...

Dec 13th

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Get to know the band month: Mark Porostosky

My name as it appears on my certificate of birth is Mark Steven Porostosky Jr. However, I will gladly accept other nombres ( or shortened nombres) including Marquese, Poro, Jr., Mike, and Hannigan. I was born in a city east of the home of the mighty Browns known as Painesville, Ohio. My Hungarian family owned a shoe repair shop when I was very little. I probably would have followed into the...

Dec 5th

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Nov 30th

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Nov 29th

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GET TO KNOW THE BAND MONTH: MIKE LOPRESTI

The next chapter of get to know the band month is today!! This week get to know Michael our lead singer and guitarist!! He is cool. CHECK OUT HIS FACE! I was born in 1986, a magical year when the first ten members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were inducted and Top Gun came out in theaters. I grew up in Mayfield Heights, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland playing every sport I could think of but...

Nov 22nd

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GET TO KNOW THE BAND MONTH: STEVEN DIAZ

Hey guys, Week 2 of get to know the band month!!! This week you can get to know Steve. He is the most recent member to join, we like him a lot, heck we love em!!! If you have any questions for Steve he would love to answer them, send them to info@thelighthouseandthewhaler.com. My name is Steven Diaz, but my friends call me Stompin’ Steve. I was born into a fairytale place called The George...

Nov 15th

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Nov 8th

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GET TO KNOW THE BAND MONTH: MATT LOPRESTI

So here is the deal. Each week for the next 5 weeks we will be posting a blog so you can get to know us individually, you can post any and all questions for that weeks member on Facebook and he will will answer them all week. Excited? We are! We want to get to know each other so that we can be apart of each others stories. Without Further Ado (is that how you spell that?) Here is our drummer...

Nov 8th

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Aug 14th

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Proud, but Nervous Parents

by Steve: Today marks the fourth day of vocals week and puts us comfortably into the second half of our time at Bear Creek. Michael has been locked away in his vocal both singin’ his heart out and the rest of us have been taking shifts listening from the control room. Mark has been practicing BGV’s and Aaron has been pacing back and forth like a proud, but nervous parent. Matt and I...

Aug 3rd

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Recording and New Adventures!

Hey folks, good to see you! So last week was a crazy first week here at Bear Creek. First I would like to thank all of you who donated to this project, without you we could have never accomplished this goal. You are truly the reason we make music. So this past week was fun as we got to know our producer and engineers. We started by recording the bones of the whole album, which means the main...

Jul 26th

Jul 16th

Make that Beautiful Music

So day one of our recording was great. I’m in the control room now listening to all the drum takes from yesterday with the guys. I am really excited by the enthusiasm of all the folks here at Bear Creek and I can’t wait for you guys to hear this new record. We have some links for you guys. You can go to VYOU and ask us any questions you’d like and we will respond to you with an...

Jul 16th

And so it begins....

So yesterday we started our three day journey to Seattle. Over the next month we will be putting together our new record at Bear Creek Studios outside of Seattle. Were really excited for you guys to hear all the new music and to share in the next part of this journey with us. We didn’t want to just disappear on you so we came up with some creative ways of letting you guys get an inside look...

Jul 13th

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Apr 3rd

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The Story Of Life or Death

So we’ve been on tour for 13 days now and we’ve seen some beautiful things. We’ve seen mountains, deserts, lakes, rivers, frozen deserts, salt flats, canyons, valleys and miles and miles of road. It has been a whirlwind adventure of the best kind. But with every journey comes risk and we have had plenty of crazy close calls on our journey. More on that in a few. Over the last...

Mar 13th

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Going over the mountains in Seattle. Crazy snow. Crazy.

Mar 7th

The Coldest Place Imaginable

So the last few days have been immensely entertaining for us. We drove 2400 miles straight and then played a show in Seattle before chilling there for a few days and recording a KEXP session. Now were in Portland hanging out in the green room of The Woods. We already have too many stories to tell you so I’ll try and highlight a few before we post a video (hopefully later tonight). We...

Mar 7th

Feb 19th

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It's Been Awhile

So it’s been awhile since we’ve blogged and for that we apologize. We got some cool stuff on the horizon. We’ve been touring the last few months and we have met some amazing people along the way. So we are about to embark on our second west coast tour and were excited to announce the dates for that here: 3.3.11: Seattle, WA - Rendezvous 3.5.11 Eugene, OR - Wandering Goat 3.6.11:...

Feb 19th

Dec 14th

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Next we went to Lexington, KY where we met two of the coolest fans we’ve ever seen. The show in Lexington was awesome. Never underestimate a coffee shop.

Dec 1st

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Yeah, we were going to be on Mtv. And then we weren’t. We don’t know exactly what happened either. Sorry about that! We are going to be rescheduled onto a different episode of the Seven, so we’ll let you know when that happens. Again, our apologies. But for now, here is the video from our latest tour, Nashville segment. Just to clarify what is happening in the video, we found a...

Nov 30th

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The Lighthouse and the Whaler does Mtv

The Lighthouse and the Whaler is going to be on Mtv’s The Seven! The Seven is a new show on Mtv that discusses and shares seven things about pop culture each day. There is a segment on the show called DJ Kiss’ Picks on which DJ Kiss reviews a up-and-coming band that she is excited about, and we have been selected for DJ Kiss’ Picks on Monday, November 29th. She will be...

Nov 25th

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Nov 18th

On The Road Again

So we’ve been touring for the last week and we apologize for not blogging as frequently as you’ve become accustomed to BUT we have a whole bunch of pictures and videos that we will be uploading along with our regular blog posts over the next few days. We have a couple of shows left on this tour and if you haven’t seen us yet we’d love to have you come out if you can. To...

Nov 18th

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This guy came up to us after our show in Cincinnati. He really wanted to give us high fives. Maybe it had something to do with the huge Miller Lite can in his hand, maybe not. Either way he sucked at it.

Oct 25th

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Battleship, before playing at Taza Coffee in Cincinnati. We did contemplate stealing these.

Oct 25th

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Goofing off after our show at Spoonful Records in Columbus, OH!

Oct 22nd

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The Fire Tower and The Whale Hunters

So we just finished a group of shows touring with The Black Atlantic. They are an amazing band from The Netherlands that we played 4 shows with on tour. Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, and Columbus. Each show got better and better. It was our first time touring with another band and it was a lot of fun. It’s amazing how people from different cultures can have so much in common. The guys in The...

Oct 21st

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The Arch and The Apolis

So the last two days we haven’t had access to the internet but now that we do we want to update you on how our shows went. Our first show was in St. Louis at The Gramophone which was an awesome venue. The show went really well and it was good to get the first show of the tour out of the way. It always seems like the first show is the most challenging because your trying to get your...

Oct 17th

Oct 15th

Emilio Midwestivez

You may be asking yourself why this blog is titled what it is. It’s a funny story. One of our fans saw our tour dates for October on Facebook and was not pleased we weren’t coming to her city. So she proceeded to let us know we should play outside the Midwest (which we will be in Nov. & Dec.) using the above phrasing. It was hilarious. We thought we’d share it with you. ...

Oct 15th

New Tour Dates!!!

We have some new tour dates to announce for October!!! Oct. 15 // St. Louis, MO // The Gramophone Oct. 16 // Indianapolis, IN // The Vollrath Tavern Oct. 17 // Chicago, IL // The Beat Kitchen Oct. 18 // Toledo, OH // Ottawa Tavern Oct. 19 // Cleveland, OH // Cranky’s Oct. 22 // Cincinnati, OH // Taza Coffee Look out for two more shows Oct. 20th and 21st!!!

Sep 28th

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Sep 26th

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Sep 26th

TV killed the radio star

So that big surprise we mentioned in our last post, well we can officially tell you what it is now. Actually we have two surprises and we didn’t even realize it. Double the fun! First Surprise: A few weeks ago we shot our very first music to our song “White Days” from our LP. This music video is going to be played on MTV’s new show The Seven in October! Along with playing...

Sep 26th

Take it to the streets

So there has been a lot happening here at TLATW. We’ve been writing some new music and were about ready to launch a brand new website filled with all sorts of exclusive behind the scenes content. Were really excited for you guys to see it. Were more excited though about you guys hearing our new songs. We have 4 new songs that we are going to be debuting on tour in October and November....

Sep 24th

Sleep is Overrated

We’ve been pretty busy the last few days and we thought we’d update you guys on what we’ve been up too. On Thursday morning we got up at 4:30 AM to get on a plane for New York City. As many of you know we were in a competition set up by Alternative Apparel and we got into the final 4. As part of the competition Alternative flew us to New York City to perform in a showcase in...

Aug 9th

M is for Minneapolis and Fatigue!

We arrived in Minneapolis an hour or so before our show. I really like Minneapolis, it’s city that feels welcoming. We played at The Beat Coffee Shop and I was actually very impressed with the venue. Most coffee shops require a bit of improvisation in our set to achieve a show we feel is good but that was nit the case here. It was a fairly large room with a decent sound system. This is a...

Jun 16th

Bidddly Bop Bop Bop! SPOKANE!

So you may be wondering why the title to this blog is so ridiculous. The truth is, as we were pulling into Spokane we had an epiphany. Why on earth would anyone name a city Spokane unless they were Jamaican in which case they were trying to say they had spoken but it came out to Spokane. I know our version of how Spokane got it’s name was purely out of ignorance but after many hours in a van...

Jun 13th