Kid Lightbulbs is the alias of Massachusetts-based songwriter/producer/performer Brandon Lucas Green. Kid Lightbulbs is a lifelong exploration into the constant and often polarizing influences around us and the serendipitous, lightbulb moments of clarity among the noise. Brandon’s music is minimal and abrasive, yet optimistic; his prose & lyrics deeply vulnerable and often self-deprecating.
An award-winning classical pianist in his childhood years, Brandon cut his teeth on equal parts Beethoven, Beatles and Blink-182, teaching himself bass, guitar, horns and enough production skills to realize his early musical ideas. After a 4-year college degree in music theory and composition and 5-year stint playing bass in the prog-metal band that would become Earthside, he put his musical ambitions on pause to pursue a career in tech. Only after a series of trying life journeys — marriage, travel, family sickness, pandemic and raising a child — did he find himself fully returning to his musical roots. He found solace in his childhood influences of pop-punk, industrial rock and alternative rock, but found an equilibrium with his classical training and more experimental ambitions.
Kid Lightbulbs’ debut album, THROW MYSELF INTO THE BAY, is out now, with more new music to be released throughout 2024.
Product
Brandon has worked as a product manager and leader for over a decade in several startups and a few big pre-IPO and public tech companies, mostly around Boston, USA. Brandon currently works for Buffer as a Staff Product Manager, and occasionally mentors fellow product managers and builders.
About this site
This site is built with Blot in plain text and Markdown, hosted in a private Dropbox folder.
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- Bandcamp and Dropbox to host my music
- You can most often find Brandon posting and conversing on Threads, though he also sometimes posts about product work on LinkedIn