SUNRISE, FL – Belmont University in Nashville is about 468 miles from the border separating Florida from Georgia. But it was at this leafy Christian university where the world-famous Florida Georgia Line began in 2008, when Floridian Brian Kelley met Georgian Tyler Hubbard. It was an encounter that would lead two years later to the […]
SUNRISE, FL – The Grammy-nominated band Disturbed recently hit the top of the Billboard charts with its cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence.” Ironically, silence was what fans of the heavy metal legends heard (or didn’t hear) for five years, as the group took an extended hiatus from touring and recording. The band […]
The Grammy-nominated band Disturbed recently hit the top of the Billboard charts with its cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence.” Ironically, silence was what fans of the heavy metal legends heard (or didn’t hear) for five years, as the group took an extended hiatus from touring and recording. The band must have stored […]
SUNRISE, FL – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s current Intimate Tour is aptly named. The multi-Grammy winning hip-hop duo is taking great pains to connect to their audience on a personal level during their worldwide tour, revealing sides of themselves that range from gently pensive to intensely passionate, all wrapped up in what they call a […]
Gent, Belgium – Back in the late ’90s, the Flemish all-girl band K3 burst on the scene and quickly became Belgium’s answer to the Spice Girls. Now, after almost two decades of countless successful singles, tours and television appearances – including representing Belgium in the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest – the group’s members have decided […]
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Beach partying is a universal pursuit, but almost nowhere is it practiced so fervently (or so well!) as in South Africa’s second largest city. Blessed with miles and miles of white sandy shores and a nearly perfect surf, Durban has raised beach partying to an art form. The crown jewel of […]
RICHARDS BAY, SOUTH AFRICA – With balmy temperatures (28˚ Celsius) and clear skies, the weather in this seaside town located a two-hour drive from Durban isn’t what comes to mind when people in the Northern Hemisphere think of New Year’s Eve. That is undeniably part of its charm, since the Uthungulu Last Dance festival includes […]
MIAMI – Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson was named offensive MVP at the Capital One Orange Bowl for a perfectly balanced performance in which he was equally effective passing the ball (for 187 yards) as he was running it (145 yards). Watson was not the only outstanding versatile performer on the field at Sun Life Stadium […]
LAS VEGAS – A pair of 4s might not get you very far at the poker table, but there are two “4s” you can bet on to be big winners in Vegas this fall: CHAUVET Professional’s STRIKE 4 and Synapse 4, which will be showcased at LDI 2015, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center […]
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NASHVILLE – Necessity is the mother of invention. The time-worn adage might sound a bit trite to modern ears, but its validity is being vividly demonstrated to sellout crowds across Europe and North America on Metallica’s M72 World Tour. The eight distinctive towers that lend a dramatic flair to the production came about when Production […]
ANAHEIM – Size matters! Well… not always, especially when it comes to the art of design, where it’s not always the size of a rig, but the way in which it’s deployed that makes the biggest impression. Patrick Dierson provided vivid proof of that at this year’s iHeartRadio ALTer EGO concert. Although a procession of […]