BIG GIGANTIC Announces Details for "Rowdytown IV"

Article Contributed by SRO | Published on Monday, April 6, 2015

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.

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

 

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