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Franklin Music Hall on Philadelphia’s North 7th Street first opened its doors in 1995 as Electric Factory, the second incarnation of a bygone local ’60s/’70s venue. The new 2,500-capacity venue quickly emerged as one of the city’s prime destinations for eclectic artists spanning genres from rock to punk to noise …

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Photo above: Pearl Jam FOH engineer Greg Nelson (left) and system engineer Andrew Gilchrest at the Gigaton Tour’s FOH mix position with some of the L-Acoustics K Series PA seen in the background In March of 2020, just as Pearl Jam was set to drop Gigaton, its eleventh studio album …

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Last year, César Benítez Seilhamer became a fan of KLANG’s unique approach to immersive in-ear monitor mixing on a co-headlining tour with Latino superstars Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias, using a DMI–KLANG card mounted into one of the slots on the back panel of his DiGiCo Quantum5 console. And the …

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Photo above: Sam Perrignon and his Quantum338 desk at FOH during a performance by Tash Sultana and their band Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tash Sultana is back out on tour for the first time in three years supporting their sophomore 2021 release, Terra Firma. Following an initial 15-date …

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When Grammy Award-winning musician Billy Strings stepped onto Roadrunner’s stage for his sold-out show this past March, the brand new Boston facility officially became New England’s largest general admission venue. Although the 50,000-square-foot space at Allston-Brighton’s Boston Landing development was initially conceived as a Celtics training facility before the team …

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This past April, on the Empire Polo Club grounds in Indio, California, artist Cristopher Cichocki devised a remarkable installation: the five-story-tall Circular Dimensions x Microscape, constructed with more than 25,000 feet of PVC tubes, portraying a visual spectacle that examines the artist’s ongoing exploration of water and the history of …

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They call it “The Buck” or “The Stronghold,” but either way the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada is a first-class venue for second-tier sports. It’s home to the Henderson Silver Knights of the American Hockey League and the Vegas Knight Hawks of the Indoor Football League, seating over 5,500 …

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DiGiCo is delighted to announce the release of its latest Version 3.0 software update, dramatically increasing the processing power of its small-footprint, cost-effective S-Series consoles. Version 3.0 offers an optional software expansion that significantly increases the channel count from 48 to 60 flexi channels and 24 flexi busses, turning S-Series …

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Photo above: Antone’s Head of Audio Myles Fontaine Crosby with the Quantum225 Clifford Antone was all about the blues. The son of Lebanese immigrants harbored a love for that strain of Americana and ended up building an empire around it, including its crown jewel: Antone’s, one of the seminal establishments …

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HAIM’s current Women in Music Pt. III Tour—in support of their Grammy-nominated 2020 album of the same name—is the second international headlining jaunt by the acclaimed California trio of sisters. The tour began in Las Vegas in April and will take them to more than two-dozen scheduled stops across the …

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