Happy birthday to my bald brother in crime, Nick Thompson of Hit The Lights. May the force be with you, or something like that.

Hit The Lights and Handguns will be playing a few shows together surrounding their appearances at Canada's Heart Fest. Dates are in the replies.

Thief Club (Nick of Hit The Lights) is giving away "Weight With You" for free here. Simply enter "0" in the "name your price" area to get it for free.

Today we're featuring up and coming Rochester, NY based rapper AJ Curry for his song "Cloud 9." The track features the soothing vocals of Nick Thompson and was produced by Kevin Mahoney of Hit The Lights. Head to his AP.net profile to listen and leave your thoughts in the replies.

AJ Curry released his new EP, Bittersweet, on iTunes. The EP was produced by Kevin Mahoney and Nick Thompson of Hit The Lights sang on it.

Kevin Mahoney (Hit The Lights) is looking to record bands in the New York/New Jersey area. If you're interested in Kevin working with your band, send an email with demos and information about your band.

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Class of '92 (A Loss For Words) is currently in the studio recording a new song with Kevin Mahoney of Hit the Lights.

Happy birthday to Omar of Hit The Lights!

Watch Hit the Lights perform "Bodybag" with original vocalist Colin Ross and current vocalist Nick Thompson in the replies.

In the replies, you can check out a video of Hit The Lights' performing an acoustic rendition of "Body Bag."

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Thief Club (Nick of Hit The Lights) released a new song called "The First Place." Listen to it here.

Vote for the songs you want to see Hit The Lights play from Invicta on the band's upcoming December tour. The poll can be found here.

Today we're streaming a Hit The Lights b-side track called "Alone But Not Lonely." The band, once again, never disappoints and delivers a solid track for our listening pleasure. Make sure to catch the band on tour with original vocalist Colin Ross this December! Head the group's AP.net profile to listen to the track and leave your thoughts in the replies.

Vote for the songs you want to see Hit The Lights play from Skip School, Start Fights/Coast To Coast on the band's upcoming December tour. The poll can be found here.

We're giving away another pair of tickets to see Hit The Lights' winter tour. Did you hear that Colin Ross would re-join the band for this tour? Questions are in the replies. Make sure you state which date you can attend. The first person to get the questions correct will win!

We're going to be holding polls over the next few weeks to see what you guys want to see Hit The Lights play on the group's December tour. Remember, Colin is joining the band for this run. Head here to vote on what songs you'd like to see the band play from This Is A Stick Up...Don't Make It A Murder.

We were all stoked to hear that Colin would re-join Hit The Lights for the band's December tour. We've got a ton of great stuff lined up over the next few weeks from the HTL camp including contests, site chat, polls, and more. The first person to hit the replies with the date that they plan on attending on the tour gets a free pair of tickets.

Hit The Lights are welcoming back original singer Colin Ross for the band's upcoming December tour with A Loss For Words, With The Punches, and State Champs. Colin and Nick will split up vocal duties based on their work over the band's discography. This is Colin's first tour with the band since 2007. Tour dates along with pre-sale ticket links can be found in the replies.

Quote from Nick

Our set will still include songs from all of the albums that we've released, but we're stoked that Colin will be out to once again lend his vocal abilities on some oldies but goodies. We know that some people may be upset that we're only doing this only for our December tour, but we had the window...

Nick of Hit The Lights has released two solo tracks under the name Thief Club. You can check out the tracks here. Kevin of HTL played drums and bass while Nick sang and played guitar.

Happy birthday to Nathan VanDame of Hit The Lights!

Hit The Lights released a ticket pre-order bundle pack that includes a previously unreleased track. You can check it out here.

Hit the Lights, A Loss For Words, With the Punches and State Champs will be touring together in December. Dates are in the replies.

Hit the Lights will be going on a tour for a few weeks in December. No other bands have been announced yet. Dates in the replies.

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Hit The Lights song "Invincible" was played during the Packers vs. Bears Thursday night football game.

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A Hit the Lights b-side from the Invicta sessions can be streamed here. The track was written with Cyrus and Steve of New Found Glory in 2010.

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All Time Low will be touring this Fall with The Summer Set, The Downtown Fiction and Hit The Lights. The Early November will replace The Summer Set for a few shows. You can find the dates in the replies.

Head to the replies to watch three videos of Hit The Lights performing live.

Hit The Lights has released a statement, which you can read below, regarding their sprinter being broken into in Manchester earlier this week. Banquet Records has set up a donation process and the band is offering 15% off in their merch store (code: UKBREAKIN) to try to recoup some of the losses.

From the Band

Last night at our show in Manchester at Moho, we had to park our sprinter van in a parking spot about 4 blocks away from the venue.

During the short time span between us back line/sound checking we had a lovely gentlemen bust out the front window of the van so he could swipe an i-phone, an i-pad charger an i-pod and a macbook among other personals/clothing that were included in...

Hit The Lights had their Sprinter broken into in Manchester earlier. The band will have an update soon.

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Happy birthday to Nick Thompson of Hit The Lights.

Check out Nick from Hit the Lights playing "Take Control," acoustic, in the replies.

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Hit the Lights are pulling out of tonight's show.

From Facebook

Hey everyone, unfortunately we need to pull out of our show with the Maine tonight in Pensacola, FL due to our van alternator being an A Hole. We promise to make it up to all of you Pensacolans in the very near future.

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Hit The Lights have posted a music video for their song "Float Through Me" -- shot by a couple of fans at the Varsity Theatre in Dinkytown.

Check out a new acoustic session from Hit the Lights.

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You can check out our interview with Hit The Lights here.

From The Interview

Well, our first goal as a band was to actually make a record, we had a really hard just getting to that point. We were on Universal Republic, and they kept pushing our album back, and it was really thing to be able to get into the studio. When we signed to Razor & Tie and they let us go in, just trying to agree what songs we wanted on the album and what album we wanted to make. Being able to make this album was pretty cool, and we hoped that people just like it and like the change in sound.

Colin Ross, ex-Hit the Lights, has posted a new demo.

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Hit the Lights' music video for "Gravity" can be viewed in the replies.

Hit The Lights demo for "Liars And Cheats," can be streamed here.

You can check out a new Up 2 No Good song here. This is ex-Hit the Lights' vocalist -- Collin's new band.

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This is a classic four rod disaster.

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Hit The Lights - Invicta (Drew Beringer)

We have your first look at the admat for the upcoming Set Your Goals and Cartel co-headlining tour in the replies. The spring tour also features Fireworks, Hit the Lights, Mixtapes and Super Prime.

Don't forget that Hit the Lights are chatting here on the website at 4pm PST.

Hit The Lights will be chatting in this thread (look for the blue names)! Drop into the replies and ask them some questions or just say hi. The band released their latest full length, Invicta, yesterday so make sure you grab a copy.