BIG GIGANTIC
ANNOUNCES DETAILS FOR
“ROWDYTOWN IV”
FOURTH ANNUAL EVENT
TAKES OVER RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
PRE-SALE TICKETS ON SALE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
PUBLIC ONSALE FRIDAY, APRIL 10
As the 2015 festival season officially gets underway, acclaimed electronic music duo BIG GIGANTIC–saxophonist/producer Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken–has announced the details for their annual Colorado experience “ROWDYTOWN.” The fourth installment of the Boulder-based duo’s massive hometown show will yet again take over the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre for two days in 2015: Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26. Pre-sale tickets for “Rowdytown IV” will go on sale starting this Wednesday, April 8 at 10am MDT with the general on-sale beginning Friday, April 10 at 10am MDT. BIG GIGANTIC
has partnered exclusively with ThisSongIsSick.com
to offer fans a VIP Rowdytown experience. VIP tickets will include a
signed poster, VIP viewing, early entry, meet and greet, band photo and a Special Rowdytown Merch Bundle. For more information on VIP and GA tickets, go to www.biggigantic.net.
This year’s edition of “Rowdytown” will feature different lineups each night featuring hotly tipped up-and-coming talent to offer fans an even bigger party for the weekend. Supporting BIG GIGANTIC on Friday will be 20-year-old Australian music producer Thomas Jack, LA-based Buygore Records producer Jauz, and DeFunk
, a Canadian artist that merges modern bass music with the retro sounds of jazz, blues, disco and funk. Saturday’s lineup will feature Los Angeles hip-hop, trap and bass producer RL Grime, the Montreal-based producer Snails who recently teamed up with Big G for the critically acclaimed track “Funk With Me” (listen here), and
Two Fresh, the hip-hop/electronic duo of Sherwyn and Kendrick Nicholls. Plus, BIG GIGANTIC will start off each night with a “Big Gigantic Mixtape 2009/2010,” playing a mix of older tunes with a live band right into a good old fashioned Big G throwdown.
Upon its debut in 2012 to a sold-out crowd of more than 9,450 fans, Rowdytown marked the first time an artist ever used projection mapping visuals on the famous rocks of Red Rocks courtesy of Ghost Pixel Visuals
, who continue to increase the size of the lighting rigs and power of
the visuals every year since. Of last year’s event, Nate Etter from the Denver Post noted, “The show was a production spectacle at a venue known for enormous shows, highlighted by 3D-mapped projections directly on the two main monoliths that were significantly brighter and more creative
than when they debuted the technology in 2012. Adding that to a main
stage rig with dozens of blinding strobes, multiple LED screens, live
video and decibel levels earplug-worthy even from the top of the venue,
you were trapped in an immersive, 360-degree sensory experience”
(9/29/14). The one-of-a-kind experience, which has sold out in advance
every year, has featured an exciting list of artists on its lineups over
the years including Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dillon Francis, GRiZ, Adventure Club,
Manic Focus, Savoy, The Floozies, Caked Up, The Motet and many more.
Rowdytown III by Jim Mimna
Coming off their recent performances at the Ultra Music Festival and Lollapalooza Argentina and Brasil, BIG GIGANTIC will continue to make the rounds on the festival circuit this spring and summer with appearances confirmed for the Euphoria Music & Camping Festival (Austin, TX), Summer Camp Music Festival (Chillicothe, IL),
Wakarusa (Ozark, AR), Mountain Jam (Hunter, NY), Governors Ball (New York City), Electric Forest (Rothbury, MI), Shambhala (British Columbia, Canada) and KAABOO Del Mar
(San Diego, CA), among many others. The duo, one of the most celebrated
acts in live music right now, will also be performing at the New Orleans and Toronto stops
of the goHARD Festival, the new tour from HARD Events. See below for full list of upcoming tour dates.
BIG GIGANTIC released their latest single “Get On Up” in early February to rave reviews with DJ Magazine USA hailing it as a “funk-laden bass masterpiece that explains exactly why they’re called Big Gigantic. Mindblowing” (2/9/15). Eric Gossett from Less Than 3 noted, “Big Gigantic taps into the fountain of funk to release an unstoppable flow of glitched-out soul, sax, and twerk that proves that the duo is still one of the rowdiest Rocky Mountain outfits around” (2/5/15) and
Dancing Astronaut’s Michael Sundius praised the song saying, “the track progresses from a casual beat to a high energy main section with enough trap stabs and laser-wielding leads to satisfy any festival goer” (2/4/15). Elsewhere, Billboard described it as “a funky, carefree single marked by a catchy saxophone hook and moombahton-style synth stabs” (Matt Medved, 2/7/15), My Music Is Better Than Yours called it “another gorgeous combination of brass and bass” (2/4/15), Sensible Reason claimed, “this track exudes high-energy throughout its entirety” (Kristen Grennan, 2/9/15), Kick Kick Snare
simply said, “this song is outlandishly brilliant” (Stephen, 2/6/15), EDM Assassin called it “musical bliss” (Grant Austin, 2/5/15) and Insomniac.com stated, “’Get on Up’ is epic and funky, funky, funky” (2/6/15). Available as a FREE download via their website www.biggigantic.net, you can also listen to the song on their Soundcloud HERE, where is has already been played almost 1.2 million times.
BIG GIGANTIC’s current tour dates are as follows:
DATE
CITY
VENUE
Euphoria Music & Camping Festival
Sun
4/12
Austin, TX
Carson Creek Ranch
College Shows:
Mon
4/13
Iowa City, IA
U of I Main Lounge
Thu
4/16
Radford, VA
Radford City w/ Cherub
Sat
4/18
Cincinnati, OH
University of Cincinnati w/ Big Sean & Cherub
Fri
5/1
State College, PA
Penn State University
goHARD Tour
Sat
5/2
New Orleans, LA
Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square
Headlining Shows:
Thu
5/7
Anchorage, AK
Bear Tooth Theatre
Thu
5/14
Niagara Falls, NY
Rapids Theatre
Summer Camp Music Festival
May 22-24
Chillicothe, IL
Three Sisters Park
goHARD Tour
Sat
5/30
Toronto, ON
TD Echo Beach
Wakarusa Music Festival
Fri
6/5
Ozark, AR
Mulberry Mountain
Mountain Jam
Sun
6/6
Hunter, NY
Hunter Mountain
Governors Ball
Sun
6/7
New York, NY
Randall’s Island
What The Festival
June 19-22
Durfur, OR
Wolf Run Ranch
Electric Forest Festival
June 25-28
Rothbury, MI
Electric Forest
Sloss Music & Arts Festival
July 18-19
Birmingham, AL
Sloss Furnaces
Shambhala Music Festival
August 7-10
British Columbia, Canada
Salmo River Ranch
Camp Barefoot Music & Arts Festival
August 20-22
Bartow, WV
Hidden Meadows
KAABOO Del Mar
Sept 18-20
San Diego, CA
Del Mar Racetrack & Fairgrounds
Rowdytown IV
Sept 25-26
Morrison, CO
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
About BIG GIGANTIC:
Formed in 2008, saxophonist/producer Dominic Lalli (classically trained with a master’s degree in jazz from the Manhattan School of Music) and drummer Jeremy Salken
interpret traditional DJ-based music with live instruments and have
successfully created an innovative, distinct sound that’s all their own.
Their transcendent live shows are a showcase of brilliant improvisation and a tightly-knit bond between Salken and Lalli,
who breathlessly alternates between keys, sax and laptop, building a
futuristic wall of sound that keeps the crowd on its feet. The Boulder, CO
-based duo leaves no genre off-limits as they channel everything from
funk and dubstep to house and hip-hop. Their latest album, THE NIGHT IS YOUNG, was released in February 2014 as a free download on their website www.biggigantic.net, and has already logged 700,000 downloads to date. The album marks the fifth album for the duo following Fire It Up (2009), Wide Awake (2009), A Place Behind The Moon (2010) and 2012’s
Nocturnal (which has received more than one million downloads to date). BIG GIGANTIC have spent the last few years on various sold-out headlining tours across the country and received rave reviews from their many festival appearances that have included Coachella, Lollapalooza, Ultra Music Festival, Hangout, Austin City Limits, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest and Outside Lands among many others. In 2014, the duo made their debut at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden performing with Bassnectar, and also that year teamed up with their good friend Skrillex to be a part of and act as Musical Director of his Bonnaroo Superjam, featuring the likes of Lauryn Hill, Mystikal
, Robbie Krieger from The Doors, Damian Marley, Janelle Monae and many more for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Check out the performances along with behind-the-scenes footage here: http://uverse.com/bonnaroo.
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For more information on any of the support acts performing at Rowdytown IV, go to the following sites:
Thomas Jack: www.thomasjackmusic.com
Jauz: www.facebook.com/JauzOfficial
DeFunk: www.defunkmusic.com
RL Grime: www.rlgri.me
Snails: www.facebook.com/OfficialSnails
Two Fresh: http://twofreshbeats.com