Pretty Lights To Headline Red Rocks in August! Don’t Miss Coachella Show (Friday @ 8pm); June 4 Show @ Terminal 5 Also Announced!

Pretty Lights To Headline Red Rocks in August! Don’t Miss Coachella Show (Friday @ 8pm); June 4 Show @ Terminal 5 Also Announced!

It’s been an incredible year and half for Colorado-based producer and Pretty Lights mastermind Derek Vincent Smith. Starting out in 2008 performing in small clubs in his home state, Pretty Lights is now selling out 1000+ venues across the country, and was named one of NPR’s recommended acts for last month’s WMC (you can check out the piece here.)

Pretty Lights has now announced its biggest headline show to date, returning to his hometown on August 7, 2010, to headline the famed Red Rocks. Tickets on sale April 24th at 10am MST.

Wondering what all the fuss is about? Check out Pretty Lights at Coachella this weekend. Or catch a show at numerous soon to be sold out venues across the country. With soulful organic vinyl samples on top of bass heavy electro beats, Pretty Lights lands somewhere between DJ Shadow and Daft Punk. But what sets him apart is his ambitious live setup that includes the addition of Cory Eberhard on drums and stunning visuals, making his live performances the stuff of legend.

Pretty Lights Tour Dates

13-Apr Wilma Theatre Missoula, Montana
14-Apr Roseland Theatre Portland, Oregon
15-Apr Mezzanine San Francisco, California
16-Apr Coachella Festival Indio, California
19-Apr Marquee Theatre Tempe, Arizona
20-Apr Rialto Theatre Tucson, Arizona
21-Apr El Rey Theatre Albuquerque, New Mexico
23-Apr Fayetteville Towncenter Fayetteville, Arkansas
24-Apr Blue Note Columbia, Missouri
25-Apr Liberty Hall Lawrence, Kansas
28-Apr Granada Theatre Dallas, Texas
29-Apr The Ballroom @ Warehouse Live Houston, Texas
30-Apr Republic New Orleans, Louisiana
1-May Illumination @ Limelight Nashville, Tennessee
29-May Summer Camp Music Festival Chillicothe, Illinois*
30-May Bella Music Festival Geneva, Minnesota
31-May Movement Festival Detroit, Michigan*
2-Jun Water Street Music Hall Rochester, New York*
3-Jun Calvin Theater Northampton, Massachusetts*
4- June Terminal 5 w/ RJD2 New York, New York*
5-Jun Starscape Festival Baltimore, Maryland
15-Jul Camp Bisco Mariaville, New York*
30-Jul Wanderlust Festival Squaw Valley, California
7-Aug Red Rocks Denver, Colorado*
*New Dates Added

Known for the unique connection with his large and continuously multiplying fanbase, Smith releases all his music for free on his website within weeks of completion, not wanting to wait to get the music out to his fans. He recently released on March 2nd Making Up A Changing Mind, the first EP in a trilogy for the year and currently at 65,000 downloads all within mere weeks of its release, adding to the 800,000+ total album downloads. Stay tuned for the forthcoming EPs to hit the web on June 15th and October 12th, and in the meantime you can download the aforementioned EP.

“…a blend of wild breakbeats, an endless supply of samples from across the genre spectrum, and synthesizers galore” – Prefix

For fans, download off of the Pretty Lights site, here.