STS9 Set For New Year’s Run in CO

Tim Wenger | November 18, 2014

Acclaimed instrumental electronic rock band STS9–hailed as “one of the country’s most intriguing, innovative outfits around”–is pumped up and ready to hit the ground running this fall and winter. Following their 25-date “Autumn Tour 2014”–marking the band’s first official headlining run in over a year—STS9 will be ringing in 2015 with 3 shows in DENVER at the FILLMORE AUDITORIUM: first on New Year’s Eve WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 and then on FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 and SATURDAY, JANUARY 3.

Three day passes, GA tickets, VIP tickets and travel packages went on-sale this morning (10/1) at 10am MT exclusively through www.sts9store.com. Single Day GA tickets for 12/31 are $75 and $37.50 for Jan 2^nd and 3^rd shows. Three Day GA Passes are $150. Three Day VIP Passes are $250 and include early and private entrance to each show, VIP Balcony Access which includes an intimate private cash bar, restrooms and a viewing area plus a limited edition event poster and digital downloads of each of the 3 shows.

Hot off their two-night sold-out run at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado early September, the group—HUNTER BROWN (guitar/sequences), JEFFREE LERNER (percussion), DAVID PHIPPS (keyboards/synths), ZACH VELMER (drums) and ALANA ROCKLIN (bass)–will be supported on select dates of their Autumn Tour by Grammy-winning producers J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League. In December, STS9 will be joining friends Umphrey’s McGee and the Disco Biscuits for the already sold-out Dominican Holidaze December 3-7 at the Breathless Resort & Spa in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic before their Denver shows.

This year, fans are being treated to STS9’s largest touring production rig ever. Using the latest cutting-edge sound and lighting, the band is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to delivering one of themost visually stunning shows on the road today. Throughout their many critically acclaimed festival appearances this year, including CounterPoint, Hangout, Wakarusa, Electric Forest, The Hudson Project and North Coast, STS9–dubbed “the masters of improvisational, brain-altering hydro-funk”by David Garber with Vice’s Thump (7/1/14)–has also debuted a number of new tracks in 2014 including“World Go Round,” “New Dawn, New Day,” “Totem,” “Click Lang Echo,” and “Only Light Remains,” that are sure to appear on set-lists throughout the fall tour. Check out this clip from theHangout Festival (5/16/14) “World Go Round > Totem”: http://youtu.be/AwAsY_QbH5E.

See what the critics have said about STS9 from their 2014 festival appearances:

“One of the headliners [at The Hudson Project] was STS9, short for Sound Tribe Sector 9, which pumped its way through its own history of instrumental dance music, segueing in and out of rock, various eras of funk and the insistent, unsyncopated beats of current dance music.”–Jon Pareles, NEW YORK TIMES, 7/12/14

“STS9 dazzled the audience. It was jazz. It was funk. It was electronica. It was sexy. It was groovy. It was raging. It was Tribe.”—Joe Lamendola, INYOURSPEAKERS.COM, 7/15/14

“It’s easy to have stage presence when you’re the headliner, but STS9 still played like they had something to prove…The crowd reveled in STS9’s past and seemed ready to embrace their future.”–Jason Keil, PHOENIX NEW TIMES, 3/29/14

“I would describe the show by STS9 as bewildering and massive. The sound slammed into us, sending ripples through the sea of people. The bass drops were perfection and it was an absolutely amazing and beautiful performance. Total synchronicity at its best.”–Tim Stanback, QROMAG.COM, 5/5/14

“…A show that was nothing short of spectacular…a non-stop rocking beacon during their twilight set.”–Marisa Frydman, LIVEFORLIVEMUSIC.COM, 7/1714

For more information, check out the following sites:

www.sts9.com
www.facebook.com/sts9
www.twitter.com/sts9
www.last.fm/music/STS9
www.sts9.tumblr.com
www.youtube.com/sts9band

www.soundcloud.com/sts9

About STS9:

Since forming in Atlanta 15 years ago, STS9 has risen to the forefront of the international music scene. Consistently ranked among Pollstar’s list of top-grossing touring acts, the quintet has sold out the legendaryRed Rocks Amphitheatre (recently completing their 11^th consecutive year headlining the famed venue), headlined stages at the country’s biggest music festivals, sold out shows across the country as an acoustic set-up in opera houses or as an electronic act in amphitheatres and have raised significant amounts of money towards activism efforts (including $150,000 to the Make It Right Foundation, paving the way to rebuild a house in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans). STS9 also runs their own record label, 1320 Records, whose goal is to bring the music to the people in the most conscious, unique, innovative and savvy ways possible to lessen the distance between artists and fans. The band’s latest studio EP and eleventh album in their full discography, When The Dust Settles, debuted at #1 on the iTunes Electronic Chart and landed them in Billboard’s Top 25 album chart.