PARIS – The value of any award stems not merely from the recognition itself, but from how it was earned. By this measure, the team at CHAUVET Professional France is extremely pleased and proud that the COLORado PXL Curve 12 earned the Public Choice Innovation Award for Best Lighting Product at this year’s JTSE. As […]

Minimalism can exert its power in the most unlikely places, even at the U2 UV Achtung Baby Live show that opened the much-heralded Sphere in Las Vegas this September.  Although the show at the massive structure with a 16k resolution wrap around video wall, enraptured audiences with its immersive and complex design, at its heart was a […]

As a lighting designer for 13 years, Jason Goers has seen his share of unique and impressive venues. He’s been to Red Rock Amphitheatre multiple times with bands like Leftover Salmon, Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band, Dark Star Orchestra, The Motet and other clients. He’s also had stops at places ranging from Ryman […]

Matthieu Larivée and the team at Lüz Studio have been relentlessly pushing the envelope of late, driving technology in new directions to transform stages in ways that would have been unimaginable not long ago. So, it should come as  no surprise that following their widely acclaimed work on last year’s Jason Aldean tour, when they […]

  If there’s one thing constant about the weather, it’s that nothing about it is constant. John Garberson and the production team at Creative BackStage learned this less first hand at Phoenix’s Zona festival.   According to the National Weather Bureau, Phoenix is the second driest city in the USA, trailing only Las Vegas. Back in […]

ZURICH – Except for some single-minded fans of genres like opera, or baroque chamber ensembles, it’s impossible for any music lovers of any stripe to attend the Zurich Open Air Festival and not find multiple performances to love. A musical melting pot, the three-day festival held in suburban Glattbrugg, features artists from an incredible array […]

LAS VEGAS  – Creativity is set free when it reaches the edges of the physical world. This spirit is at the heart of CHAUVET Professional’s LDI booth (1261), which is dedicated to the goal of converging physical and digital worlds. Designed by Studio Lab, the booth utilizes disguise, Unreal Engine and other emerging virtual production […]

WINDOW ROCK, AZ – When asked what he attributes Megadeth’s enduring success to, Dave Mustaine, frontman and founder of the iconic, Grammy-winning band quips, “stubbornness.” Of course, fans, like the 10,000-plus who packed the fairgrounds at the 75th annual Navajo Nation Fair would respectfully disagree. For them, there’s much more than mere tenacity behind the […]

NASHVILLE – Color has always been “a huge part of our design process.” Dayne deHaven says of the work that he and his collaborator at the District 5 design studio, Tyler Shapard, have been doing for The Band Camino. Fans of the red-hot rock-pop trio would readily agree; the band’s music is so evocative, that […]

TORONTO – Alex Mungal readily admits it: he can get pretty nerdy when it comes to Star Trek. Metal music fans who packed venues in 33-cities for Motionless in White’s just-concluded Touring The End Of The World tour of North America can readily understand why. Channeling his fascination with all things Galactic, Mungal opened a […]

TA’IF, SAUDI ARABIA – It came as a surprise to many when USM Alger of Algeria upset heavily favored Al Ahly SC of Egypt at the TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup 2023 to be crowned the king of African football. The team from Cairo was established as a perennial football (soccer) power, and few expected they […]

LAS VEGAS – A lot can happen in a month. Just ask Antonio Herrera Pérez, better known to the world as Mexican music superstar Junior H. A few short years ago, as a high school student in Utah, the Guanajuato-born musician-singer uploaded some of his work on YouTube as “a hobby.” The daily flow of […]