Things can be said in colors and shapes that cannot be said any other way, the great Georgia O’Keeffe once observed. The creative team at The Playground summoned the power of this mysterious visual language for Megan Thee Stallion on her recent Hot Girl Summer tour. Wanting to share the story of her creative and […]
‘We’ve got the basic thing the kids want — they want to rock, and that’s it.” AC/DC guitarist Angus Young told an interviewer not long after the band started. He was right, but only partly. It’s not just “kids,” but fans of all ages, who love being jolted by the band’s straight forward scorched earth […]
This Boston based designer has enriched an eclectic mix of projects with light during the course of his highly successful career, from product launches by Fortune 500 companies, to museum exhibits and television broadcasts, to tours by the likes of Alicia Keys, Cardi B, Lenny Kravitz and Gwen Stefani. Despite the varied nature of these […]
Music memories are often made at 628 Divisadero Street in San Francisco. It’s been that way since the 1960s, when the address was home to the Half Note Club, which hosted shows by jazz legends like Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. In the 1990s, 628 Divisadero Street was silent for a few years. But music […]
Victoriaville, Quebec – John Lydgate was an English monk and poet who lived over 600 years ago. By all accounts he never attended a music festival, and certainly never one that had LED lighting fixtures. But he did pen words that any modern-day festival LD can relate to: “You can please some of the people […]
AXTON, VA – With its 150 acres of pastoral meadows dotted by tranquil ponds surround by tall pines and flowering trees, Pops Farm is alive with color throughout the year. At no time though is this celebration of hues as bold and exciting as it is in the early summer, when the farm is home […]
SAN JUAN – When Marcos Efraín Masís Fernández, known professionally as Tainy, and Lex Borrero teamed up to launch their music company Neon16, “a multifaceted talent incubator” in 2019, they adopted the motto “fear nothing, impact everything.” This bold attitude was on full display at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot during Data Loading, […]
CHICAGO – A metal design should at turns be bright and bold, yet subtle and nuanced, pushing and pulling the audience’s emotions to new places, while supporting the music of the artists on stage. Rob Koenig and his team, are doing all this and more for Metallica on the second North American leg of the […]
AMSTERDAM – “Delivering innovation and connecting communities,” is a rallying cry for IBC 2024 on the show’s website. The Chauvet family of brands: Kino Flo, ChamSys and CHAUVET Professional will be embracing this concept wholeheartedly at the convention by showcasing an impressive selection of products developed around the company’s declared goal to “Reach Across Worlds […]
NASHVILLE – “Forever is a long, long time,” the great Walt Disney once quipped. Of course, this sort of epochal time-span certainly wasn’t anything that four gifted high schoolers from Maryland were thinking in terms of when they formed their band in 2004. “We had no lofty expectations for how far this band would go,” […]
PIERCY, CA – It’s easy to get lost in the redwood forest in and around the Cooks Valley Campgrounds, especially if you journey to this beautiful piece of paradise located 794-feet above sea level, when the annual Northern Nights Music Festival takes place. Ok, maybe you won’t be “lost” in the literal sense of the […]
NOBLESVILLE, IN – Electricity was in the air (quite literally) on July 11, as fans made their way to Ruoff Music Center to attend the second show in the I Prevail-Halestorm co-headline 24-city summer tour. The awe-inspiring display of light overhead matched the mood. All this was the result of a violent storm blowing across […]