DT: MARCH 2, 2016
FM: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/BARI LIEBERMAN, MSO PR
BIG GIGANTIC
DEBUTS NEW SINGLE
“THE LITTLE THINGS”
FEATURING ANGELA MCCLUSKEY
SPRING HEADLINING TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
BIG GIGANTIC—Dominic Lalli (saxophonist/producer) and Jeremy Salken (drummer)–is sharing some of the new music they’ve been busy cooking up with the release of their brand new single, “The Little Things.” The track–featuring vocals from singer-songwriter Angela McCluskey–first premiered today (3/2) on Billboard.com; listen to it now here:
Link: https://soundcloud.com/biggigantic/the-little-things-feat-angela-mccluskey
Embed:
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“The second I heard Angela’s voice I knew her soulful, smoky sound would fit absolutely perfect with the vibe of the song. A bit of that 60’s flavor mashed up with our current generation,” says Lalli on what Angela’s distinctive vocal brings to the group’s first new music of the year. “I heard her singing on a Telepopmusik song that popped up on my Pandora station one day. I absolutely loved her voice and hit her up right away to see if she wanted to collaborate on some music,” Lalli adds. “We worked on a song a couple years back that we never ended up finishing and earlier this year, I came across the vocals again. They happened to fit quite nicely over this new song I was working on so we switched some stuff around, added a few lyrics and this new song was born!”
“Literally couldn’t believe when Dom out of the blue emailed and said check this out,” shared McCluskey. “We had played with some tracks a few years ago and then nothing really came out of it. Then Dom went back recently listened again and built around a vocal he liked and voila! I especially like my laid back soul sound; don’t know what mood I was in that day but wish I could bottle it. All sounds effortless and meant to be,” she adds. “I’m happy to rock some Big Gigantic and so excited to sing this live with them in the summer! It’s always the Little Things In Life that get you through and this song has that feel like warm water being poured over your head on a sleepy dancefloor somewhere on a Jamaican beach!”
In addition to new music, the Boulder, CO-based dynamic electronic duo–fresh off their performances at the Mad Decent Block Party in India–is gearing up to hit the road this March and April, starting with the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival on March 5. BIG GIGANTIC then head to New York City for two headlining shows at Terminal 5 (March 11 and 12) before embarking on a three-week spring tour that takes them to such cities as Aspen, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Raleigh, Charlotte, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Richmond and Detroit. The festival favorites are also set to appear at the Shakey Beats Festival, Lightning In a Bottle, Forecastle Festival and Backwoods Festival. See below for full list of upcoming tour dates. Tickets for the group’s headlining shows are available via biggigantic.net.
Catch BIG GIGANTIC on the road in the following cities:
| DATE | CITY | VENUE | |
| Festival Appearance: | |||
| Sat | 3/5 | Okeechobee, FL | Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival |
| w/ Hermitude, Louis The Child & Callie Reiff supporting | |||
| Fri | 3/11 | New York, NY | Terminal 5 |
| w/ Mija & Unlike Pluto supporting | |||
| Sat | 3/12 | New York, NY | Terminal 5 |
| Festival Appearances: | |||
| Wed | 3/16 | South Padre Island, TX | Ultimate Music Experience |
| Fri | 3/25 | Aspen, CO | HI-FI Free Concert Series |
| Sat | 3/26 | Aspen, CO | Belly Up Aspen (w/ Dreamers Delight) |
| Spring Tour 2016: | |||
| ^Tue | 3/29 | Urbana, IL | Canopy Club |
| ^Wed | 3/30 | Lincoln, NE | Bourbon Theater |
| ~Thu | 3/31 | Minneapolis, MN | Skyway Theatre |
| ~Fri | 4/1 | Milwaukee, WI | Eagles Ballroom |
| ~Sat | 4/2 | Kansas City, MO | Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland |
| ~Sun | 4/3 | Fayetteville, AR | George’s Majestic Lounge |
| ^Tue | 4/5 | Raleigh, NC | Lincoln Theatre |
| ^Wed | 4/6 | Charleston, SC | Music Farm |
| ^Thu | 4/7 | Charlotte, NC | The Fillmore |
| +*Fri | 4/8 | Washington, DC | Echostage |
| *Sat | 4/9 | Philadelphia, PA | Electric Factory |
| *Sun | 4/10 | Burlington, VT | Higher Ground |
| ^Tue | 4/12 | Morgantown, WV | Mainstage |
| ^Wed | 4/13 | Charlottesville, WV | Jefferson Theater |
| ^Thu | 4/14 | Richmond, VA | The National |
| Fri | 4/15 | Athens, OH | #Fest Pre Party |
| #*Sat | 4/16 | Detroit, MI | Masonic Temple (w/ special guest Marshmello) |
| ^Louis Futon supporting | |||
| *Louis The Child supporting | |||
| ~MELVV and Louis The Child supporting | |||
| +Mija supporting | |||
| #Marshmello supporting | |||
| Festival Appearances: | |||
| May 20-22 | Atlanta, GA | Shaky Beats Festival | |
| May 25-30 | Bradley, CA | Lightning In A Bottle | |
| July 15-17 | Louisville, KY | Forecastle Festival | |
| Sept 1-5 | Stroud, OK | Backwoods Festival | |
About BIG GIGANTIC:
Formed in 2008, the Boulder, CO-based duo of 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. 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 700,000 downloads to date. “Get On Up” from the album had great success having been featured on the hit TV series “So You Think You Can Dance?,” in a national Mountain Dew commercial and in the trailer for the Robert DeNiro/Zac Efron film Dirty Grandpa. Other releases include 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 (teaming with their good friend Skrillex to be a part of and act as Musical Director of his Bonnaroo Superjam, featuring the likes of Lauryn Hill, Mystikal, Robbie Krieger from The Doors, Damian Marley, Janelle Monae and more. Check out the performances along with behind-the-scenes footage here: http://uverse.com/bonnaroo), Electric Forest and Outside Lands among many others. Meanwhile, their annual Rowdytown show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado—now entering its fifth year—sells out way in advance. Look for more from Big Gigantic, the act who broke the saxophone into dance music, to come very soon.
http://www.biggigantic.net/
https://www.facebook.com/BigGigantic
https://twitter.com/#!/BigGigantic
http://www.youtube.com/biggigantic
http://www.myspace.com/biggigantic
http://soundcloud.com/biggigantic
Press Releases + Assets:
http://www.msopr.com/n/client-roster/big-gigantic1/
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For more information on BIG GIGANTIC, contact MSO PR:
Alexandra Greenberg, 818-380-0400 x223, agreenberg@msopr.com
Bari Lieberman (tour), 818-380-0400 x222, blieberman@msopr.com
