BIG GIGANTIC Returns to the Road this Fall for the Touch The Sky Tour

DT: AUGUST 20, 2014

FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/BARI LIEBERMAN, MSO PR

BIG GIGANTIC

RETURN TO THE ROAD THIS FALL FOR THE

TOUCH THE SKY TOUR

The night is still young for BIG GIGANTIC, one of the most celebrated acts in live music right now. They have announced they will return to the road on their “Touch The Sky Tour,” their next headlining road trek in 2014 in support of their fifth studio album THE NIGHT IS YOUNG out now. Presale tickets for the tour will be available today (Wednesday, August 20) via www.thissongissick.com with regular on-sale launching this Saturday, August 23 at www.biggigantic.net.

The month-long tour launches on October 8 at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH right after BIG GIGANTIC performs with Bassnectar at the famed Madison Square Garden inNew York City. The pair mostly keep east of the Mississippi, making stops in such markets as Grand Rapids, St. Louis, Kansas City, Urbana, IL, Little Rock, Memphis, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and more. Named after The Night Is Young album cut “Touch the Sky”—an electro-leaning dance track drizzled with jazzy sax tones courtesy of BIG GIGANTIC’s Dominic Lalli and live drums per Jeremy Salken—the tour will capture BIG GIGANTIC’s explosive live show at every stop. Sandwiched between their headlining dates will also be four shows featuring BIG GIGANTIC supporting their good friend and recent Bonnaroo Superjam collaborator Skrillex in Columbus, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Amherst, MA.

Prior to the “Touch The Sky Tour,” BIG GIGANTIC will host “ROWDYTOWN III,” their third annual hometown show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Set for Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27, “ROWDYTOWN III” will feature different support lineups for each night, offering fans an even bigger party this year with its expansion to two days.Supporting BIG GIGANTIC on Friday, September 26 will be Brooklyn-based electro-house trio Savoy, Canadian electronic music duo DVBBS, Kansas-based brother duo The Floozies and two tweener sets from producer/DJ Trippy Turtle; Saturday’s lineup will feature the newly reunited Toronto trio The New Deal, hip-hop duo Caked Up, Atlanta-based electronic producer HeRobust and another two tweener sets from Trippy Turtle. Members ofTHE MOTET, the band that DominicLalli started in and is considered Colorado “family,” will join BIG GIGANTIC both nights to create a full live band and special experience. GA, VIP and 2-day tickets are currently available via www.axs.com here: http://www.axs.com/series/634/big-gigantic-tickets?skin=redrocks

Catch BIG GIGANTIC on the road in the following cities:

DATE		CITY	VENUE
*Mad Decent Block Party*
Sat	8/23	Nashville, TN	12^th Avenue North
Fri	8/29	New Orleans, LA	Mardi Gras World
Sat	8/30	New Braunfels, TX	Whitewater Amphitheater
Sun	8/31	Dallas, TX	Club Zouk Outside Lot
*Mystik Sanctuary Music Festival*
Sept 5-6		Oklahoma City, OK	OKC Downtown Airpark
*Mad Decent Block Party*
Fri	9/12	Phoenix, AZ	Rawhide
*Summersalt 2014*
Sat	9/13	San Francisco, CA	Pier 70
*Mad Decent Block Party*
Sat	9/20	Eugene, OR	Cuthbert Amphitheater
*Rowdytown III*
Sept 26-27		Morrison, CO	Red Rock Amphitheatre
*Supporting Bassnectar*
Sat	10/4	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden
*“Touch the Sky Tour”*
*Wed	10/8	Cleveland, OH	House of Blues
*Thu	10/9	Grand Rapids, MI	The Intersection
*Fri	10/10	St. Louis, MO	The Pageant
~Sat	10/11	Kansas City, MO	CrossroadsKC
*Sun	10/12	Urbana, IL	The Canopy Club
*Wed	10/15	Little Rock, AR	Revolution Music Room
*Thu	10/16	Memphis, TN	Minglewood Hall
*Fri	10/17	Birmingham, AL	Iron City
*Sat	10/18	Chattanooga, TN	Track 29
*Supporting Skrillex*
Mon	10/20	Columbus, OH	LC Pavilion
Tue	10/21	Pittsburgh, PA	Stage AE
Wed	10/22	Syracuse, NY	F Shed at The Market
Thu	10/23	Amherst, MA	Mullins Center
*“Touch the Sky Tour”*
^*Fri	10/24	Philadelphia, PA	Tower Theater
^*Sat	10/25	Detroit, MI	Freaky Deaky @ Masonic Temple
*Tue	10/28	Raleigh, NC	Lincoln Theatre
*Wed	10/29	Norfolk, VA	The Norva
*Thu	10/30	Columbia, SC	Music Farm
^Fri	10/31	Atlanta, GA	The Tabernacle
Sat	11/1	Live Oak, FL	Suwannee Hulaween
Sun	11/2	TBA	TBA
*Mad Decent Boat Party*
Nov 12-16		Miami-Bahamas	Norweigan Pearl

*support from Manic Focus
~support from Manic Focus and The Floozies
^support from Paper Diamond

About BIG GIGANTIC:
Formed in 2008, saxophonist/producer Dominic Lalli (classically trained with a master’s degree in jazz from the Manhattan School of Music) and drummer Jeremy Salken interpret traditional DJ-based music with live instruments and have successfully created an innovative, distinct sound that’s all their own. Their transcendent live shows are a showcase of brilliant improvisation and a tightly-knit bond between Salken and Lalli, who breathlessly alternates between keys, sax and laptop, building a futuristic wall of sound that keeps the crowd on its feet. The duo leaves no genre off-limits as they channel everything from funk and dubstep to house and hip-hop. Their latest album, THE NIGHT IS YOUNG, was released in February 2014 as a free download on their website www.biggigantic.net, and has already logged over 70,000 downloads to date. The new album marks the fifth album for the duo following Fire It Up (2009), Wide Awake (2009), A Place Behind The Moon (2010) and 2012’s Nocturnal(which has received more than one million downloads to date). BIG GIGANTIC have spent the last few years on various sold-out headlining tours across the country and received rave reviews from their many festival appearances that have included Coachella, Lollapalooza, Ultra Music Festival, Hangout, Austin City Limits, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest and Outside Lands among many others.

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For more information on BIG GIGANTIC, contact MSO PR:
Bari Lieberman, 818-380-0400 x222, blieberman@msopr.com
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