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Life in Color is gearing up for a massive ten year anniversary party with their latest lineup announcement. The festival, which lays claim to the title of “world’s largest paint party,” began in 2007 with the vision of combining colorful paint and the then burgeoning Edm scene in Florida. Now, to celebrate a full decade’s worth of paint splattered festivities, Life in Color has tapped some of the biggest names in dance music for their 2017 lineup.

The lineup boasts a number of impressive acts from the Edm realm, including Diplo, Marshmello, Tritonal, Seven Lions, Ookay, Mija, Doctor P and Carnage, with a few names from hip hop sprinkled in for good measure. The upcoming event will feature two stages, and it looks like the organizers are going all out to ensure that 2017 will be a landmark year for the festival.

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Following the release of his new remix of September’s “Cry For You” over the weekend, 3Lau shared that he had a big announcement waiting in the wings. Now, the news is finally in, and the producer and DJ has revealed an upcoming world tour that will see him making stops throughout Asia and North America.

The Las Vegas based producer took to social media to announce the upcoming 3Lau Haus World Tour, which is slated to kick off in Thailand on August 11. The tour will feature a number of top notch special guests as well, including Illenium, Jenaux, Prince Fox, Elephante, Grandtheft, Cheat Codes and more.

With a stacked list of guest acts and stops in some of the biggest cities in the Us and Asia, 3Lau clearly has some exciting things planned for us. As such, make sure to grab your tickets here, as this is one tour...

Want an extra reason to smile as you head into your Fourth of July weekend? We've got you covered. To celebrate People and ABC's new series People's List, we rounded up seven stories from the past week that are impossible to get through without a smile. 1. San Antonio man gifts kiddie pools to families in needAfter seeing a photo on Facebook that mocked kids for using the back of a truck as a swimming pool, San Antonio resident http://www.people.com/article/man-buys-pools-for-west-side-san-antonio-families. Using social media to locate the family, Arredondo bought them an inflatable swimming pool and personally delivered it to their home.

Indonesian based festival Djakarta Warehouse Project has begun to reveal the first round of its lineup for this year’s event, securing several notable DJs as headliners. Dwp has cornered the Indonesian market as the region’s premiere festival, and the phase one lineup announcement sees the brand preparing for their biggest year yet.

The first part of the roster secures some major headliners in the form of Hardwell, Martin Garrix, Kshmr and Zedd, as well as Yellow Claw, who recently announced the departure of their third member Bizzey. The Us based festival Life In Color is teaming up with Dwp to bring their own curated stage to the region for the first time as well.

Djakarta Warehouse Project 2016 is slated to run December 9 and 10, and you can expect to see more acts added to the lineup in the near future. In the meantime, you can head over to the official website to purchase tickets.

This year was supposed to have taught us that we should make it all about the music, but apparently it’s still just all about who you know. A post to Life In Color (Lic)’s website announced “Rise Up” by Solano as the official anthem of the paint party tour’s 2016 edition – but conveniently failed to mention that the Miami-based artist is the CEO’s brother.

Indeed, David Solano is the sibling of none other than Lic Founder and CEO Sebastian Solano. When the latter brother first enlisted him to play private house parties in 2006 he still went by the stage name DJ Climax, and curiously, even though he now goes by his family name alone he no longer seems to embrace any connections to his brother. When asked by Your Edm how he got involved with Lic in 2014, he explained, “I met the head guy just going to...

A bankruptcy court has granted SFX Entertainment initial access to $80 million of a loan totalling $115 million. The Edm conglomerate (which owns companies like Disco Donnie Presents, Life in Color and Miami Marketing Group) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, and the loan marks the first steps towards a companywide restructuring as laid out in its proposed restructuring agreement.

SFX Entertainment’s stock value fell from $13 per share to less than a dime per share in less than three years following its initial public offering – due in no small part to CEO Robert F.X. Sillerman’s erratic mismanagement of the company’s numerous assets. In the next 60 days Sillerman will resign as CEO to serve as chairman – and as the company moves to fill his position, chief restructuring officer Michael Katzenstein will act as interim CEO.

While about $23 million of the restructuring loan will be allocated to operating expenses, the bulk...

Sources indicate that Edm conglomerate SFX Entertainment has at last filed for bankruptcy. After a steady decline in stock value since its 2013 Ipo which dovetailed into a disastrous 2015, the company is said to have filed a petition with a bankruptcy court under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code as the first step towards arriving at a restructuring agreement.

Founded in 2012 by entertainment mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman, SFX Entertainment’s board of executives intended to more or less monopolize the rapidly growing Edm industry by buying up brands such as Disco Donnie Presents, ID&T and Life In Color. Insiders widely chalk up the company’s decline to mismanagement of its numerous assets, and while it’s difficult to quantify how such a turn of events will affect the market, a contraction of sorts is sure to follow.

SFX Entertainment has not issued an official statement with the details of...

Much larger in sponsorships, this year's Napa Valley Film Festival (November 11-15) has become so popular that the main road between Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga is jammed and the smaller theaters are playing to Sro crowds. The St.Helena Cameo Cinema is the longest running single screen theater in the United States, going back to 1913 and “featuring 400 seats, 150 opera chairs, a modern stage and two standing sets".

Culinary, wine and film mix well here. This year we were invited to dine with second-generation vintner Ron Nicholsen, at his estate, Kelham Vineyards, where chief Tyler Rodde from Oenotri, the southern Italian restauranteur from the town of Napa served us his finest food. And at every screening, the best of wines are tasted, In the morning we could (and I did once) practice yoga on the vineyard banks of the river running through the valley. Afternoon and evenings wine pours freely and people mix as they go to movies or to the parties and receptions. My big discovery was White Stone Wine grown on the shores of the mighty Lake Roosevelt in the shadows of Whitestone Rock. I award it for its white chalky stone accent on its bold red wines.

Jury and audience awards were given to the winners at the Uptown Theatre on Sunday, November 15, 2015. The Festival had screened 120 new independent films in 12 unique screening venues in the four postcard-perfect towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga.

David Glasser, COO and President of The Weinstein Company presented awards on behalf of the third annual Lexus Short Film Series. Lexus’ Media Director Teri Hill and TWC announced the four winners, Alexis Michalik, Byoung-Gon Moon, Damian Walshe-Howling and Pippa Bianco. Look for my blog about this event.

The Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature went to “The King of New Orleans”.

The Special Jury Award for Authenticity in Narrative Feature Storytelling went to “ Life in Color”.

The Full List of Juried Awards is Below: Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature presented by Taken Wine Company, and with a $10,000 cash prize courtesy ofMeadowood Napa Valley, went to “ The King of New Orleans”. Jury Award for Best Screenplay presented by Italics Winegrowers went to “ Tumbledown”. Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast presented by Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley went to “ Jane Wants a Boyfriend”. Member of the ensemble, Louisa Krause, also won the Audience Award for Favorite Actress. Audience Award for Favorite Actress presented by Eleven Eleven Wines went to for her work in the film "Jane Wants a Boyfriend." Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature presented by Trinchero Napa Valley, and with a $10,000 cash prize courtesy ofMeadowood Napa Valley, went to "Romeo is Bleeding." Jury Award for Best Narrative Short presented by Wolf Family Vineyards went to "It’s Perfect Here." Honorable Mention went to "Birthday." Jury Award for Best Documentary Short presented by Priest Ranch went to "Elder." Honorable Mentions go to: "Code Oakland, Une Passion d’or et de feu" (A Passion of Gold and Fire) , and "Riding the Highline."

Jury Award for Best Lounge Feature presented by Ca’ Momi Winery went to "Night Owls." Jury Award for Best Lounge Short presented by Modus Operandi Cellars went to "A Man Wakes Up." Honorable Mention went to "Ci: A Tedd Talkumentary." Special Jury Award – Courage in Documentary Feature Filmmaking presented by Rombauer Vineyards went to " Life Under Siege: Exploring Gaza’s Secret Tunnels." Special Jury Award – Authenticity in Narrative Feature Story-Telling presented by The Hess Collection Winery went to "Life in Color." Special Jury Award – Acting in a Lounge Feature Film went to sisters Aly Michalka and Aj Michalka for their work in the film "Weepah Way For Now." A Full List of a Audience Awards is Below: Audience Award for Favorite Actor presented by Caldwell Vineyard went to David Jensen for his work in the film "The King of New Orleans." Audience Award for Favorite Actress presented by Eleven Eleven Wines went to Louisa Krause for her work in the film "Jane Wants a Boyfriend." Audience Award for Favorite Documentary Feature presented by Grgich Hills Estate went to "Landfillharmonic." Audience Award for Favorite Documentary Short presented by Kelham Vineyards and Winery went to "Ron Taylor: Dr. Baseball." Audience Award for Favorite Narrative Feature presented by Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. went to "Friends and Romans." Audience Award for Favorite Narrative Short presented by Favia Erickson Winegrowers went to "Sin Frontera." The Runner-Ups for Narrative Shorts presented by Matthiasson Wines are "Playdate" and "Birthday." Audience Award for Favorite Short Feature presented by Beaulieu Vineyard went to "Sketch." Lexus Short Films winning filmmakers received their awards presented by Alpha Omega Winery, Merryvale Vineyards, Raymond Vineyards and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars.

Juries Narrative Features Jury: Sydney Levine, Morrie Warshawski, Ralph Macchio

Documentary Features and Shorts Jury: Dierk Sindermann, Marcia Jarmel, Sheri Linden

Narrative Shorts Jury: Alonso Duralde, Neil Berkeley, Lissa Gibbs

Documentary Shorts Jury: Ken Schneider, Brandon Carroll, Jenni Olson

The Lounge Jury: Gren Wells, Evy Warshawski, Elvis Mitchell

Each of the festival winners received a large format wine bottle from one of the festival’s esteemed Vintner Circle winery partners. For the first time The Lounge Features and Shorts were up for the Juried and Audience Awards. The winners of the Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature jury were awarded $10,000, presented by Meadowood Napa Valley.

In light of a disastrous fiscal quarter that followed an only slightly less disastrous year, SFX Entertainment has appointed Life In Color Founder & CEO Sebastian Solano the new CEO of TomorrowWorld parent company ID&T/Made Event. The news accompanies other recent statements indicating that SFX is resorting to desperate measures to ensure the solvency of its brands – although TomorrowWorld’s organizers still have yet to announce any kind of investigation as to the actual causes of the transportation issues that endangered thousands of the festival’s attendees.

Since both Life In Color and ID&T are owned by SFX, the re-appointment would seem like something of a lateral move if not for the fact that Solano cites ID&T’s Duncan Stutterheim as his primary inspiration. Solano told Billboard that shortly after learning about global party tour Sensation, a friend invited him to one of Tallahassee’s Day Glow...

At first, it was the release of a cryptic Instagram puzzle to tempt fans. Now, Life In Color has dropped their lineup in full, and may we say, it’s stacked. Taking place over Martin Luther King weekend, the World’s Largest Paint Party will return to Sun Life Stadium in Miami on January 16th.

Amongst the electronic armada will be Jack Ü, Steve Aoki, Moska, Zeds Dead, Flosstradamus, and more; they’ve even thrown in a bit of R&B with performances by Troy Boi and Big Sean. Especially considering Justin Bieber’s recent announcement of a new collab with Skrillex, this festival might very well see some unreleased material.

Tickets for the World’s Largest Paint Party are available now via Ticketfly, but this lineup is already turning heads, so be sure to swoop them fast.

This article courtesy of Miami New Times.

By Zachary Fagenson

A media titan who made billions buying up everything from Graceland to American Idol is poised to become the Tsar of Miami Beach nightlife.

New York businessman Robert F. X. Sillerman has made a significant investment in the Opium Group -- owners of Mansion, Set, Mokai, Cameo, and Opium at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, sources confirmed Thursday. Signs at Mokai and Set confirm the role of Sillerman's company, SFX Entertainment.

Sillerman, who in June pledged to spend $1 billion on electronic dance music (Edm), is also negotiating with Miami Management Group, which operate virtually the rest of SoBe's clubs including Liv, Story, and Arkadia.

"As of now, there is a deal in the works," said Mmg's vice president of marketing Jimmy Vargas. Though there's "not much other information besides that."

The bold move to bring the world renowned...

Can't find that perfect fragrance that complements your style? Ralph Lauren can help with a new Facebook app that matches you with the right fragrance for your personality. Take the quiz! Ralph Lauren's "The Big Pony Collection For Women" introduces modern women to a colorful and energetic wardrobe of four fragrances. And they make it easy to find the perfect fragrance that matches your personality with the Facebook app "The Life In Color Quiz." Simply answer four questions about how you live a colorful life, and you'll be sporting a fresh new scent that's totally you. Enjoy OneRepublic's "Life In Color," not set to premiere until Summer 2012, while you pick your favorite travel destination, decide what party to host, choose your style and select how you listen to your music. Based on your choices, you'll discover if your perfect scent is sporty, sensual, free-spirited or stylish. We love shopping online,...