The music of Pretty Lights is a fusion of classic soul and R&B with gangster rap and heavy electronica bass wobbles. This soulful spin on EDM was a fresh take on the tired house beats that had ...

Derek Smith achieved blood-pumping drops, riffs and rhythms in his set Thursday night at the Alliant Energy Center, quenching UW-Madison students’ apparent for ...

As the entertainment, arts, and media industries and the talent that drives them continue to tinker with a variety of business models, Smith has found a sweet spot that combines rave-huggy levels of ...

This weekend, Skrillex and Pretty Lights will curate and perform at With Your Friends Fest, a two-day EDM event featuring fellow electronic artists 12th Planet, Dillon Francis, Michal Menert, ...

Pretty Lights has gone quiet. Despite his steady stream of live performances, it’s been more than three years since the prolific Colorado-bred electronic music composer released “Color Map of the Sun, ...

The buzz about the new Pretty Lights (aka producer-songwriter Derek Vincent Smith) album, "A Color Map of the Sun," (Pretty Lights Music) is all about the process behind its creation. Instead of once ...

While Pretty Lights took a hiatus back in 2018, music producer Derek Vincent Smith made a grand return last August with six Colorado shows. And Pretty Lights will be back in the Centennial State this ...

Pretty Lights will ring in the New Year with a pair of back-to-back shows at New Orleans’ Mardi Gras World on December 30 and December 31. The electronic music star, who now calls the Crescent City ...

may have turned my notions about DJ-mix music on its head Wednesday night. Or at least, knocked it a bit sideways. Electronica/down-tempo DJ and mix-master Derek ...

Derek Vincent Smith is the electronic-music mastermind behind Pretty Lights, the Fort Collins-based act whose last two albums just surpassed 110,000 digital downloads. The music of Pretty Lights is ...