MARC STOUT - Resident DJ @ XS Las Vegas - Encore Beach Club  - SIRIUS XM - GHR
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With over a decade on B96, Chicago’s most listened to radio station; Marc Stout is responsible for introducing the newest dance hits to the clubbing masses each weekend. Mixin Marc became one of the city's most popular DJs thanks to his long-running Saturday night residency at Chicago’s most famous nightclub, Crobar. Marc has played alongside some of the biggest names in dance music including David Guetta, Deadmau5, Erick Morillo, and many more.

Marc Stout has played around the world, including annually at Robbie Rivera’s Juicy Beach party and is a current resident at Spy Bar Chicago. But now the three-time Miami Winter Music Conference Mix-Off Champion is setting his sights on the bigger prize – becoming an international producer. His remixes of JEnnifer Lopez feat. Pitbull "On The Floor" & Taio Cruz feat. Ludacris "Break Your Heart" topped the iTunes sales chart and appears on MTV's “Jersey Shore Soundtrack”.

Splitting his time between producing remixes for the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Enrique Iglesias, Usher, Katy Perry, LMFAO, Taio Cruz, Ne-Yo, DEV, Iyaz, Fat Boy Slim, and Green Velvet – and working on his own record label, Movement Music – Marc Stout finds himself topping the Beatport sales chart and receiving airplay on XM/Sirius Radio. This dedicated DJ, producer, remixer, and label owner’s dream is becoming reality.

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Melanie Martinez's creative drive and talents have always distinguished her from other musicians. After releasing her platinum-certified 2015 debut album, Cry Baby—which reached No. 1 on Billboard's alternative albums chart and has amassed over two billion streams worldwide —she conceived and directed a video for each song on the album. These mini-movies traced the traumas and insecurities experienced by the album's character, Cry Baby.
 
Melanie’s sophomore album and film, K-12, is another ambitious triumph. K-12's music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12's universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with metaphor, songs address the struggle to find a place to belong—including within friendships, the physical world and romantically—even when fitting into society feels like an uphill battle.
 
To accompany the album, Martinez wrote and directed a 90-minute movie (also called K-12) that incorporates the album's music and mirrors the themes and characters introduced. Filmed on location in Budapest, Hungary, the movie focuses on Cry Baby (portrayed by Martinez) and a class of students who find themselves trapped in a horror house-like residential school. As they experience the usual grade school rites of passage—a lunch room food fight, the embarrassment of gym class, a romance with nefarious intentions, courses taught by checked-out teachers— they have to figure out a way to escape.

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Vic rose to public awareness as a member of the eclectic hip-hop band Kids These Days and founder of the Chicago collective SAVEMONEY alongside Chance The Rapper and other local upstarts Joey Purp and Peter CottonTale. His solo debut mixtape INNANETAPE dropped in 2013, igniting immediate accolades (including a spot on the XXL Freshman cover in 2014), and a fortuitous introduction to Jay Z that led to a record deal with Roc Nation. Mensa went on to help Kanye West pen his esoteric song “Wolves” from The Life of Pablo, drop three critically acclaimed EPs (2016’s There’s A Lot Going On, 2018’s Hooligans, and 2020’s V TAPE) and his debut full length The Autobiography (2017), as well as furthering social causes in his hometown through his nonprofit SAVEMONEYSAVELIFE. In both music and his social activism, Vic challenges the American system responsible for a history of overcriminalization, racial injustice, and issues that affect the lives of people in underserved communities, while showcasing profound levels of consciousness and self-reflection.

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