CRANSTON, RI – Venturing outside of comfort zones has become a necessity, not an option, in the wake of COVID-19. And although the first steps into the unknown may be tentative, the rewards awaiting those who take them, make the journey well worth the effort. Just ask Cody James. For years, James had built up […]
DERRY, NH – Soon after the COVID-19 lockdown went into effect, Events United owner Tim Messina and his team began transforming Studio Lab (their shared space production facility) into a livestream studio to produce events. They weren’t exactly sure where this effort would take them; they just wanted to keep busy and find a way […]
ANTWERP, BELGIUM – Robbe Verburgh wants more EDM DJs to start streaming. So much so, that he’s created VR Stream, a complete mobile streaming solution in a van that allows DJs to do a show and get it up and running online from anywhere, even their own back yards. To promote his new service Verburgh created […]
LOS ANGELES – Anticipation was high for Kayzo’s Unleashed Tour when it was announced in January. Schedule to begin March 27 in Denver with stops across the USA, before wrapping up May 9 in Seattle, the tour represented the next step in the former Insomniac Discovery Project winner’s impressive musical ascent. Pulling together an array […]
BALTIMORE – The weather in eastern Maryland never got much past 70 degrees on Saturday May 23, but the vibe in the improvised studio at Showtime Sound’s warehouse was decidedly tropical. Aaron Kovelman, the company’s Director of Design and Production, saw to that by creating breezy, colorful, beach-like visuals for its one-hour Virtual Island Festival […]
MESSA, AZ – Just as it does at outdoor festivals, nature can work with or against the LD who lights a drive-in concert. Matt Collier got a little taste of both on Saturday, May 23 when he lit a two-hour-and-ten-minute show by jam band monsters Spafford at the Digital Drive-In outside Phoenix. The brilliant orange […]
NASHVILLE – Social Distancing… the concept was key to everyone behind Keith Urban’s historic Drive-In concert on May 14, not just for the Vanderbilt University Hospital medical heroes, in whose honor the event was held, but also for the team that managed to create an immersive stage setting for the one-hour show on short notice. […]
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Roger Sharp is proud of his region’s music tradition. It’s easy to understand why. His upstate New York stomping grounds have nurtured a wealth of talent in virtually every genre, from Lana Del Ray, the Goo Goo Dolls, and Ani Di Franco to Moe, Rick James, Lou Gramm, 10,000 Maniacs and […]
WAUSAU, WI – New York City may be over a thousand miles away, but local company, JEM Productions, created the look and feel of Manhattan jazz club at its warehouse- turned-studio, as it hosted a livestream fundraising show by the Sara Rifleman Trio. The performance by the Wisconsin-based musicians was the latest in a series […]
TEMPE, AZ – Andy Chaves, lead singer for Katastro, broke into a breezy, flowing monologue at the start of the band’s Wednesday May 13 show. It’s an engaging style he developed over the course of the funk/rock fusion group’s relentless touring schedule, an itinerary that has seen them play with the likes of Pepper and […]
EBERSWALDE, GERMANY – Tearing away the veil of silence to set communication free is nothing new in this picturesque valley town located a short drive from Berlin. It was here in January 1923, that the world’s first radio concert was broadcast from an experimental tower near the city center. Today, almost a century later, a local […]
MENDON, MA – Nipmuc Regional High School is a little over six miles from the Imperial Cars automotive mall. Lately, a lot of seniors from the 654-student enrollment school have been making that drive to the dealership. They aren’t necessarily looking to buy a new car; they’re coming to see a special graduation tribute that the […]