The Colourist recently released a new remix of “Fix This” by The Chainsmokers. The Chainsmokers are a production group (mostly Alex and Drew?), from New York. Chainsmokers described the remix process: “in the production it was great to create a composition for this track that ping pong’d between their vocals and our production as we add and subtract instruments to increase the energy and emotion into a joyous wave of synths for the drop that keeps that has our signature style.”

Earlier this year, I caught The Colourist at Triple Rock, and I absolutely love them. There’s just something about girl drummers, I can’t explain it.

Also, The Colourist is back on tour this January, this time on tour with Panic at the Disco!

Tour dates:

01/14/14 Seattle, WA Showbox Sodo
01/17/14 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue
01/18/14 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
01/19/14 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
01/21/14 Minneapolis, MN Skyway Theatre
01/22/14 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
01/24/14 Columbus, OH LC Pavilion
01/25/14 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s
01/26/14 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
01/28/14 Silver Springs, MD The Fillmore
01/29/14 Wallingford, CT The Dome
01/30/14 Boston, MA House of Blues
01/31/14 Montreal, MA Metropolis
02/01/14 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
02/04/14 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom
02/05/14 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
02/07/14 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
02/08/14 Miami Beach, FL The Fillmore
02/09/14 Orlando, FL House of Blues
02/11/14 Houston, TX House of Blues
02/14/14 Phoenix, AZ The Marquee Theater
02/16/14 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern

SECRET COLOURS
secretcolours.com

Psych-rock foursome, Secret Colours has a new single called “It Can’t Be Simple.” Watch out for two releases next year, Positive Distractions Part I (out February 4th) and Positive Distractions Part II (out April 29th).

You may recall that I caught the Chicago band live at First Avenue earlier this Summer.
The event was billed as the first annual “Bathysphere: A Psychonautical Voyage”, which is a psychedelic rock music festival in Minneapolis, and, of course, we’re looking forward to covering more Bathysphere.

Of the eleven bands we saw, we made sure to check out Secret Colours:

Like all the bands on the main stage, a projector displaying graphics or images of the band on the background. This was no different for Chicago’s Secret Colours, who played tracks from their recently released album Peach to some psychedelic or images of the sun. Highlight of Secret Colours’ set was when singer Tommy Evans busted out the melodica to play “Blackhole”.

Expect Secret Colours to go on tour around SXSW 2014 time (like many other bands).

PRETTY LIGHTS
prettylightsmusic.com

Pretty Lights’ A Color Map of the Sun was nominated for the Grammy’s “Best Dance/Electronica Album of 2013”. The album is available as a free download on his website, where you can grab all of his previous albums for free. Instead, Pretty Lights makes money off his live shows.

A Color Map of the Sun is also available as a remixed collection, which Derek Smith wrote is more like a “re-imagination of A Color Map of the Sun.”

We caught Pretty Lights at First Avenue in 2010, which Oscar wrote: “Pretty Lights is Derek Smith. He hails from the south-western state, Colorado. He incorporates a drummer for his live sets, the current drummer is Adam Deitch. Derek makes funky, electro, hip-hop. With a ton of funk, soul, and hip-hop samples. Most of the crowd that was there for him were also fans of the Minneapolis hip-hop/rap scene, as well as acts such as Ratatat, Lotus, Bassnectar and Rusko.”

He’s currently on tour:

12.27.13 || Hampton, VA || Basslights
12.28.13 || Hampton, VA || Basslights
12.31.13 || Denver, CO || Decadence NYE