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LAS VEGAS — Imagine Dragons’ new tour is more than dry ice and fancy lights. Smoke + Mirrors 2015 plays with and subverts preconceived notions of what a rock show can or should be. It translates the band’s sophomore album into the language of live performance and writes the story large on the stages of the world. For the audience, the result is a deliberately-paced emotional journey, a full circle transformation full of inversions, delays and surprises.

LE CHAMP-PRÈS-FROGES, France – Jennifer Lopez recently performed a stunning rendition of her latest single, ‘Feel the Light’, during an episode of this year’s American Idol, taken from the soundtrack for the latest DreamWorks feature length animated film, Home, featuring Airstar Accent and Crystal LED products.

LAS VEGAS – Jason Eible, with Boca Raton, FL-based Frank Gatto and Associates, served as lighting director for the May 2 matchup between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. Eible relied on Avolites’ Sapphire Touch console the lighting cues for the event, which reportedly brought in $410 million in pay-per-view TV revenue alone.

SMITHFIELD, RI – Technical Director of New Life Worship Center and the Awakening Conference, Robert Santilli, commissioned Chauvet Professional’s Nextt NXT-1 moving head LED panels for the 2015 conference’s lighting and visual display.

DALLAS, TX – The Tropicana marked the beginning of summer and Memorial Day Weekend with the unveiling of an audio/visual show with Syncrolite SXL automated Xenon Skylights.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – The District recently had a state-of-the-art Elation lighting and video system installed courtesy of Fyxx Entertainment.

LOS ANGELES – Earlier this month, rap legend Snoop Dog rocked the iHeart Radio Theatre in Los Angeles with a filmed performance that featured some major bling courtesy of High End Systems SHAPESHIFTER C1 fixtures.

LAS VEGAS — Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best small companies in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. PLSN readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best.

NASHVILLE, TN – Halestorm is no stranger to touring, but for their tour promoting their newest album Into the Wild Life, the Grammy-award winning rock band took with them a lighting package from Bandit Lites. The tour kicked off April 22 at the historic Ryman Auditorium and continues through September.