NASHVILLE – Over 75 million records sold… 35 No. 1 hits… A pair of Grammys… 16 CMA Awards! That’s just the beginning of what Alan Jackson has accomplished in his stellar career. The superstar who has given us such treasures as “It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere,” and “Don’t Rock The Jukebox,” is performing a lively selection […]
MONTREAL – Lighting a festival in a former power plant kind of lends itself to electrifying images. The team at Onedot certainly thought so. They took this inspiration and flew with it during the three-day Lumen Festival that Produkt produced at New City Gas, a site that traces its roots back to an iconic 1849 […]
SAN ANTONIO – Visitors to February’s San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, were awed by the balance and dexterity of the cowboys and cowgirls who roped and rode on the arena floor. But the heroics of these athletes weren’t the only jaw-dropping impressive feats that took place at the spacious Frost Bank Center during the […]
NASHVILLE – The transformative power of lighting design springs forth from many wells: color, movement, brightness, shadows… the list goes on. For Mike Castle one of the deepest and most mysterious sources of lighting’s sway over audiences begins with angles. “I love experimenting with unusual angles of light,” he says when describing his work. “I […]
LAS VEGAS – Magic, they say, is built on defying perception. How true! Especially in Las Vegas, the desert oasis that has been known to bend reality in unimaginable directions. A special kind of magic was indeed in the air on The Strip February 5th when charismatic superstar Blake Shelton kicked off his six-show residency […]
GENK, BELGIUM – It is said that the creative drive has no reverse gear. Although building on what has been done in the past and echoing themes, it never repeats itself, but instead is constantly looking forward, rejuvenating itself with original ideas at every turn. The iconic Belgian duo Clouseau has embodied this concept in […]
ST. LOUIS – The 19,000-seat Enterprise Center, home of the St. Louis Blues hockey team, is widely regarded as a state-of-the-art facility. Indeed, Pollstar has consistently ranked it as one of the top drawing concert arenas in the USA. But on Friday January 24, a headline in the local St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper declared […]
Czaplinek, Poland – British poet John Ruskin once declared ‘you get what you pay for.’ Although his quip has been repeated often over the past two centuries, it isn’t always true. A beautiful case in point is Pol’ and’ Rock, a three-day event held at the Czaplinek-Broczyno Airfield that bills itself as “the largest free […]
ROTENBURG, GERMANY – Wümme Airport may not be remarkable at first glance, but it has made quite a name for itself in general aviation circles. Located 4km from Rotenburg city center, the historic airfield (it opened in 1936), is directly in the Elbe-Weser triangle between Hamburg, Bremen, and Hanover, making it an ideal refueling stop. […]
COLUMBUS, OH – By any measure, 2024 was a very good year for Beartooth. The hard charging metal rockers reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Air Play charts with their hits “Might I Love Myself” and “I Was Alive,” while their LP “The Surface” charted Number 2. And then, no less than Rolling Stone […]
HELSINKI – The official announcement for the band’s just launched North American tour refers to them as “cello rockers.” Admittedly, at first the term seems oxymoronic, kind of like sauerkraut ice cream, or a 220-pound jockey! Is it tasteful? Is it even possible? Of course, only those not yet familiar with the Finnish trio Apocalyptica […]
HARTFORD, CT – A little over 10 years ago researcher at the University of California, Berkley did a study involving 100 volunteers who spent hours on end listening to music from virtually every genre while playing with a 37-color palette wheel. Their conclusion: the human brain associates different colors with different types of songs. Brian […]