Wed, 11/30/2011 - 11:59 am

Conspirator, the full band featuring Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner of The Disco Biscuits, guitarist Chris Michetti, and a cast of the live music scene’s best drummers, has announced the 3-week “BLIZZARD OF BEATS TOUR – WINTER 2012” for February 2012 performances throughout Colorado and the Midwest. Tickets for all shows are available from individual venue ticketing. Please check with each venue for details.The Blizzard of Beats Tour features top artists from the growing electronic music scene. After kicking off Winter 2012 on February 2 in Breckenridge, the band will spend a total of 10 days in Colorado – giving fans a great excuse to hit the slopes by bringing a string of live shows to the mountains before wrapping up their stint in The Centennial State with back to back shows in Boulder and Denver.Conspirator will be joined by #1 Beatport Glitch Hop artist, Ben Samples for all six Colorado shows, while Dr. Fameus (Allen Aucoin of the Disco Biscuits) joins the Tour for the last three Colorado shows in Ft. Collins, Boulder, and Denver. From there, the Doctor continues to the Midwest, playing Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Kalamazoo. Ben Silver of Orchard Lounge will join the Milwaukee and Minneapolis shows, along with the newest member of our team, Alpha Data, whose first ever EP, Nefertiti, will be released November 29th on Grunt Worthy.Conspirator pulls into Chicago for a Friday night blowout on February 17th at the Congress Theater with Emancipator and Lotus! The February tour will then meet you at the Pageant in St. Louis for one more show with Lotus before wrapping things up in Kalamazoo, which proved to be another favorite stop for Conspirator in the past year.---CONFIRMED CONSPIRATOR BLIZARD OF BEATS TOUR - WINTER 2012 DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:February 2  – three20south – Breckenridge, CO w/ Ben SamplesFebruary 3 – Agave – Avon, CO w/ Ben SamplesFebruary 4 – Pac3 – Carbondale, CO w/ Ben SamplesFebruary 9 – The Aggie – Ft. Collins, CO w/ Ben Samples & Dr. FameusFebruary 10 – The Fox Theatre – Boulder, CO w/ Ben Samples & Dr. FameusFebruary 11 – The Bluebird – Denver, CO w/ Ben Samples & Dr. FameusFebruary 15 – Turner Hall – Milwaukee, WI w/ Dr. Fameus, Ben Silver (Orchard Lounge) & Alpha DataFebruary 16 – The Cabooze – Minneapolis, MN w/ Dr. Fameus, Ben Silver (Orchard Lounge) & Alpha DataFebruary 17 – The Congress Theater  – Chicago, IL w/ Lotus and EmancipatorFebruary 18 – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO  w/ LotusFebruary 19 – Bell’s Brewery – Kalamazoo, MI w/ Dr. FameusCONSPIRATOR2011 has been a seminal year for Conspirator. Formed in 2004 by Aron Magner and Marc Brownstein (The Disco Biscuits' keyboardist and bass player) along with New York producer DJ Omen, Conspirator has taken on many forms through the years. With the recent addition of virtuoso guitarist Chris Michetti and stalwart drummers Darren Shearer (the New Deal) and Mike Greenfield (Lotus), Conspirator has reached a new level.As a full band, the music is hitting new highs, and with the addition of an arsenal of new material, crowds across the nation have begun to catch on. Conspirator can no longer be considered merely a side-project, but must be looked at entirely as its own entity.Coming off of break-out performances at Ultra Music Festival, Nocturnal Festival, Electric Forest, and Camp Bisco, Conspirator has begun to catch the eye of electronic music aficionados everywhere. Refusing to be pigeon-holed into one genre, they explore the many realms of electronic music, effortlessly slipping between house, dub-step, drum and bass, and electro.  

Thu, 01/19/2012 - 8:46 am
With the Blizzard of Beats tour in our sights, we prepare ourselves for a Winter Wonderland in Colorado and beyond! But it's never too early to look forward, and with that we announce the 2nd Leg of Winter Tour and our first Spring Tour Dates! We waste no time this Spring, hitting the road on the 2nd day of the season in sunny California, but not before tearing apart the East Coast in March with a slew of shows that will be sure to help start melting the snow (if it ever comes!!!).
 
For the first leg of Winter Tour, we are excited to welcome back behind the kit the one and only KJ Sawka.  I'd bring some extra clothes into the mountains, because KJ might cause an avalanche.
 
Winter Tour Leg 2 is a weekend warrior special! We hit the road from Thursday's to Saturday's, making stops at all the favorite spots: The Wescott in Syracuse, Mr. Small's in Pittsburgh, The Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg, PA, Toad's Place in New Haven, and the Town Ballroom in Buffalo. We fittingly end the Blizzard of Beats Winter Tour 2012 in New Hampshire at the Lift Festival, a Skiing and Music Festival featuring Conspirator, Ghostland Observatory, Danger (French Electro-house), Paper Diamond, Orchard Lounge, Break Science, and much much more! We are glad to be book-ending the tour in ski towns, but we are sure to be eager for some warm weather by then. And warm weather we will get...
 
The Spring Tour starts at the famed Belly Up in Solano Beach, CA before heading up the coast to LA (the actual venue will be announced shortly), the Independent in San Francisco, and the Arcata Theater. We head down to Tahoe to end the mini West Coast run at the Crystal Bay Casino Ballroom before heading back east for 3 more weeks of Spring Tour.  
 
The SE run starts in Charleston at the Pour House on 4/18. With a late night appearance at Wanee Festival on April 19th, we are set up for a heady 4/20 weekend: we will be headlining the new Georgia Theater in Athens on 4/20 and the Orange Peel on 4/21 in Asheville, NC! As well, we will be wrapping the tour up on on April 27th at the Trocadero Theater in Philly and April 28th in NYC at Irving Plaza! These two-set Conspirator throw-downs are going to have all kinds of musical surprises for the fans, as we plan on stretching Conspirator into new directions of instrumental experimentation while continuing to throw-down over pulsating beats that you can't stand still to...We dare you to try!
 
Winter Tour 2012 Leg 1
 
2/2  – three20south – Breckenridge, CO w/ Ben Samples
2/3 – Agave – Avon, CO w/ Ben Samples
2/4 – Pac3 – Carbondale, CO w/ Ben Samples
2/9 – The Aggie – Ft. Collins, CO w/ Ben Samples & Dr. Fameus
2/10 – The Fox Theatre – Boulder, CO w/ Ben Samples & Dr. Fameus
2/11 – The Bluebird – Denver, CO w/ Ben Samples & Dr. Fameus
2/15 – Turner Hall – Milwaukee, WI w/ Dr. Fameus, Ben Silver (Orchard Lounge) & Alpha Data
2/16 – The Cabooze – Minneapolis, MN w/ Dr. Fameus, Ben Silver (Orchard Lounge) & Alpha Data
2/17 – The Congress Theater  – Chicago, IL w/ Lotus and Emancipator
2/18 – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO  w/ Lotus
2/19 – Bell’s Brewery – Kalamazoo, MI w/ Dr. Fameus
 
Winter Tour Leg 2
 
3/1 - Toad's Place - New Haven, CT 
3/2 - Sherman Theater - Stroudsburg, PA 
3/3 - Wescott Theater - Syracuse, NY w/ Eliot Lipp 
3/8 - The Note - West Chester, PA 
3/9 - Mr. Smalls - Pittsburgh, PA 
3/10 - Town Ballroom - Buffalo, NY w/ Eliot Lipp
3/16 - LIFT Festival - Enfield, NH w/ Ghostland Observatory, Paper Diamond, Orchard Lounge, Break Science, Danger and more
 
Spring Tour 2012
 
3/22 - Belly Up - Solano Beach - CA 
3/23 - LA - TBA
3/24 - The Independent - SF - CA   
3/25 - The Arcata Theater - w/ Nit Grit and Two Fresh
3/26 - Crystal Bay Casino Ballroom - Crystal Bay, NV
3/31 & 4/1 - Rock and Roll Resort v2 - A Psybient Soiree - w/ Shpongle and more - Kerhonkson NY
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4/18 - Pour House - Charleston, SC 
4/19 - Wanee Music Festival - Live Oak, FL - LATE NIGHT SHOW! 
4/20 - Georgia Theater - Athens, GA - 2 SET SHOW 
4/21 - Orange Peel - Asheville, NC w/s/g Zoogma - 2 SET SHOW 
4/27 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA - 2 SET SHOW 
4/28 - Irving Plaza - New York, NY - 2 SET SHOW - 
 
Wed, 09/11/2013 - 5:43 pm

CONSPIRATOR has confirmed that the band will perform throughout the East Coast this Fall, hitting the road for the “Going Up Tour” presented by TheUntz.com in September, October and November. The band will visit fan favorite venues and cities for 1-2 weeks each month, in addition to scheduled appearances at the most popular fall festivals throughout the country. More information is available by visiting Conspirator's official events page. Tickets are available directly from all venues and festivals.

Featuring Marc Brownstein (bass) & Aron Magner (keys) of The Disco BiscuitsChris Michetti (guitar) from RAQ and Torch (drums), the 4-piece band fuses live instrumentals with electronic elements, which should come as no surprise to those familiar with the band members' backgrounds.

The band is set to feature their new single, “Up,” which is expected to release in conjunction with the Fall Tour. The title track of Conspirator’s new and forthcoming EP is an epic and triumphant progressive house production, and represents yet another evolution for the always growing group. 

While producing the EP, the band had an epiphany and decided to change their approach entirely. The result is a new direction toward live instrumentals augmented by computers rather than a computer-based band augmented by instruments. As the band members find new inspiration in their decision, they are just starting to scratch the surface of what is possible when you combine the power of a live band with the possibilities of computer production on one stage.

An action-packed Spring and Summer saw Conspirator tour hard throughout the country to support their latest EP release, Conspirator - Unleashed, at top festivals such as Bonnaroo, Hangout, Camp Bisco, Summer Camp and Mountain Jam, in addition to a nationwide tour that visited the Northeast, Southeast, the Midwest, Colorado and California. Now, this fall, fans old and new will have the chance to see one of their summer festival favorites in a venue close to home.

Conspirator will visit Camp Barefoot Music Festival and Chicago's North Coast Music Festival to wrap up the summer this August, before a string of September shows that will see the band hit Harrisburg, PA, Morgantown, WV and coastal Virginia, in addition to stops at upstate New York's Catskill Chill Music Festival and Ohio's Werk Out Music Festival.

The band then tours the East Coast hard throughout October, visiting greater NYC, Providence, RI, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and upstate New York before rounding out the month at Atlanta's Terminal West for a Halloween blowout that will carry over to November 1st's appearance at the String Cheese Incident's Suwannee Hulaween 2013 in Live Oak, FL.

Conspirator will close out their current Fall plans in November with stops in their hometown of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and at Washington, DC's legendary 9:30 Club en route to five stops in as many days in South Carolina and North Carolina, that are sure to be a treat for the band's mid-Atlantic fans.

The current list of confirmed Conspirator tour dates is as follows:

September 7 - Catskill Chill Music Festival - Hancock, NY

September 11 - Abbey Bar - Harrisburg, PA

September 12 - 123 Pleasant Street - Morgantown, WV

September 13 - Werk Out Music Festival - Thornville, OH

September 14 - Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville, VA

September 15 - Jewish Mother Hilltop - Virginia Beach, VA

October 3 - Mexicali Live - Teaneck, NJ

October 4 - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel - Providence, RI

October 5 - Pearl Street - Northampton, MA

October 9 - Levels Nightclub - State College, PA

October 10 - Toad's Place - New Haven, CT

October 11 - Westcott Theater - Syracuse, NY

October 12 - Port City Music Hall - Portland, ME

October 17 - Putnam Den - Saratoga Springs, NY

October 18 - Water Street Music Hall - Rochester, NY

October 19 - Sherman Theater - Stroudsburg, PA

October 30 - Music Farm, Charleston, SC

October 31 - Terminal West - Atlanta, GA

November 1 - Suwannee Hulaween 2013 - Live Oak, FL

November 2 - TBA

November 3 - TBA

November 14 - Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA

November 15 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC

November 16 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA

November 21 - Lincoln Theatre - Raleigh, NC

November 22 - The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC

November 23 - Ziggy's - Winston-Salem, NC

November 24 - Ziggy's By The Sea - Wilmington, NC

January 4-9, 2014 - JamCruise - Miami, FL + Ports of Call