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Good and loud: those are the adjectives routinely applied to Williams-Brice Stadium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. On game days, the atmosphere at the venue, which is home to the university’s South Carolina Gamecocks, has developed a reputation for being one of the most rowdy and …

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L-Acoustics expanded the spatial sound possibilities for music creators with the launch of L-ISA Studio, the perfect object-based audio mixing tool for sound designers, producers, and mixing engineers. L-ISA Studio brings the power and versatility of L-Acoustics L ISA technology away from the studio to laptops so that sound creators …

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The combined forces of two of hard rock’s most totemic bands, Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe, turned this year’s The Stadium Tour into the biggest outing of either band’s career and the biggest rock tour of the year thus far. With special guests Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts …

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Photo above (left to right): BJ Shaver, Director of Sales, Americas; David Cooper, Director of Sales, APAC; Nick Fichte, Director of Sales, L-Acoustics Creations; and Jacob Barfoed, Global Director of Sales and Sales Operations L-Acoustics announces the creation of a new sales organization that allows the company to drive its …

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It’s a unique moment in the music-touring business right now. A combination of pandemic exigencies and shortages means tours often have to be ready to move at a moment’s notice. That was the case for the first week-plus of theater dates in the Midwest to kick off The Manhattan Transfer’s …

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Times Square Church (TSC) on West 51st Street in Manhattan’s Theatre District has a long and diverse history. Initially built by Warner Brothers in 1930 as a movie palace known as the Warner Hollywood Theatre, the venue later transitioned into the Mark Hellinger Theatre, which hosted iconic Broadway musicals like …

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Brian Ruggles has been mixing Billy Joel’s live shows ever since the singer-songwriter came on the scene in 1971 with his Cold Spring Harbor LP. Now, more than half a century later, he continues to collaborate with the iconic artist, including mixing Joel’s multi-year, record-breaking, one-show-a-month residency at Manhattan’s Madison …

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Since its founding in 2001 by pastor Chris Hodges and a core group of 34 people, the growth of Church of the Highlands has been nothing short of astounding. In that time, the multi-site megachurch has grown to two dozen campus locations, mostly in central Alabama and centered around Birmingham. …

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Photo above: Caleb James mixing monitors for Kehlani on one of the tour’s two Quantum338 consoles Recently completing a 28-date North American run, plus two more shows in South Africa, Kehlani is now on the cusp of carrying their Blue Water Road Trip over to Europe and the United Kingdom …

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Look under the hood of Thomas Rhett’s just-concluded “Bring the Bar to You” Tour, a 30-date US trek that kept him and his band busy from June to mid-October, and you’d have seen a complex technical signal path and workflow worthy of any arena-level pop performance. In preparation for the …

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