Crystal Ballroom

For over 30 years, Josh Davis has expressed his passion, taste, and values through the music he creates as DJ Shadow. The name alone evokes a high watermark for instrumental hip-hop and composition. From his first masterpiece Endtroducing…, to the genre-hopping UNKLE release Psyence Fiction, to the otherworldly elegance of The Private Press and its iconic single “Six Days,” to his underrated Bay Area celebration The Outsider, his work in the ’90s and first decade of the 2000s is as essential as it is hard to pin down. In the 2010s, Shadow released the sprawling The Less You Know, the Better, with its muscular forays into rock music, and followed with The Mountain Will Fall and Our Pathetic Age, both ambitious, risk-taking albums that featured collaborations with Run the Jewels, Nas, and De La Soul, among others. Most recently, he returned with Action Adventure, an introspective and cinematic project that reaffirmed his singular approach to sound. If there’s a single red thread across this career, it’s his restless ear-always searching to rescue some forgotten gem from the dustbin of music history or a fresh blast of sound from the cutting edge. It’s a practice Shadow learned as a young boy, enamored with collecting comic books,baseball cards, 12-inch records, and precious songs captured to cassette from the radio airwaves late at night in northern California. With great seriousness and love, he describes the second-hand transistor AM radio on which he first heard Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” when he was 10 years old, and his mind-expanding encounter with Public Enemy’s “Rebel Without a Pause” and that single’s howling saxophone blast. At the heart of DJ Shadow’s musical project is deep listening. “I’m always trying to please or impress the most advanced listener,” he says-the type of aficionado who respects the layers upon layers of synths that go into making a sound that can’t be readily identified but makes you want to share it with a friend and say, “This part right here.” Rightly or wrongly, DJ Shadow has never been one to follow anyone else’s musical wants or desires but his own. His career remains a testament to constant evolution, curiosity, and an enduring belief in the art of sound. ABOUT the Endtroducing Tour: You heard right: for the first time EVER, Shadow is going to be playing a set focusing solely on his groundbreaking 1996 debut album, Endtroducing…. . He was ready to do it anyway, but the fact that Endtroducing is turning 30 years old made it a no-brainer.

Following Charles Wesley Godwin’s 2023 critically acclaimed Family Ties – a highly personal, 17-song diary-like LP that was both universally praised and catapulted the West Virginian singer-songwriter to new heights in his career – the rising musician returned in 2025 with a pair of releases: t he Lonely Mountain Town EP and Live From The Steel City . The former is a quieter, more contemplative affair than Family Ties, containing some of the most thrilling songs of Godwin’s career. Written principally on the road, Lonely Mountain Town is at its heart a collection of on-the-move snapshots and quiet moments in life set to tune. The latter, Live From The Steel City , is a raucous live record that perfectly encapsulates the energy Charles Wesley Godwin brings to his performances, which last year included a sold out Red Rocks headline debut and a string of dates opening Eric Church’s Free The Machine Tour. Godwin has been on a steady upward climb following his beloved debut album, 2019’s Seneca . Alongside his longtime band, the Allegheny High, the musician has developed a reputation as a thrilling and beautifully raucous live performer. Godwin has appeared on ESPN’s Sportscenter, performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and CBS Saturday Sessions.