A lot can happen over two-and-a-half years, especially when you’re an award-winning band that has become a national icon. Following the pandemic, mellow rock masters Racoon embarked on an extensive tour of The Netherlands in support of their album. Being the kind of band that thrives on audience interaction, the quartet performed at a very […]
There are times, and there are times! Anyone who’s been around for any length of time knows the difference. We’re referring to those special periods in history when society experiences a seismic shift, ushering in a new way of experiencing things. The early 1990s was such a time, especially as far as popular music was […]
Beartooth’s recently concluded 40-city North American tour included many iconic venues, from the Palladium in Times Square to the Wiltern in Los Angeles, but none of them held more than 3,000 people. Still, fans who packed houses for the band’s 75-minute performance, could have sworn they were watching an arena show. That was just the […]
As a student of jamband lighting, as well as one of its most proficient practitioners, this Denver-based designer has created stunning and deeply evocative aerial effects for clients like The String Cheese Incident and The Disco Biscuits. Putting intricately woven patterns of light in the air, is, he believes, a medium for visually interpreting the […]
Mirror Mirror on the Wall…. So said the Wicked Queen in the Brothers Grimm classic. But Ed Warren has another place where he prefers to hang mirrors – over the stage or dancefloor. The well-known designer whose client list reads like a Who’s Who of rock and EDM artists has famously included the familiar mirror […]
Every song tells a story, but in the case of Disturbed, this “story” is more than just a narrative. Instead, it is more like a journey, one that takes fans through a fierce, primal storm of emotions that, as one critic put it “draws us into a realm where light and darkness collide.” Contributing to […]
If touring with one legend is a dream come true. What do you call lighting two? For Susan Rose, the term “doubly blessed” might do. The talented Tennessee LD spent 19 years touring with Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band, something that qualifies as a career highlight in any book, especially when you throw in […]
This Tennessee designer’s dance card was full going into 2020, when COVID hit, shutting everything down with a thud. Rather than waiting it out, however, Casey kept the doors open at his HELM Projects studio. There were some small livestream projects, but mostly, he and his crew spent their time learning new skills, particularly in […]
Art is always evolving, but at pivotal times in its history something more profound happens. It is at these moments, such as during the Renaissance, when science revolutionized painting and sculpture, that art transcends its traditional boundaries and reaches into new realms of knowledge to infuse itself with more powerful, game-changing ways to touch the […]
It started with an idea on a European tour bus. It wound up being one of the most innovative production designs in recent memory, one that broke the mold time and time again to result in novel, transformative looks. Grammy-winning singer-guitarist Billy Strings set off the initial spark for this impressive design when he was […]
Good things come to those who wait. A familiar old cliché? No doubt. But as is so often the case with such sayings, there’s more than a little bit of truth to it. Just as Cosmo Wilson. The well-known designer-programmer was a fan of metal giants Judas Priest since he was a teen. Later, when […]
The deepest emotions tend to live in that area between light and darkness, where nebulous boundaries give them endless space to expand and shrink, twist and turn in infinite directions. By devising such a space on stage for Tom Odell’s Black Friday Tour, Joe Beardsmore created the ideal visual setting for music that one critic […]