Hard Events Founder Gary Richards Featured In Variety Article

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VARIETY has interviewed HARD EVENTS Founder GARY RICHARDS. RICHARDS (aka DESTRUCTO), writing he, "is one of the titans of contemporary dance music, founder of one of the genre’s biggest promotion companies, a veteran of several record labels and a longtime and respected DJ. His company is behind the "Hard SUMMER" (which drew 150,000 people over two days last year), "Hard HAWAII" and "Day of the Dead" festivals as well as the "Holy Ship" cruise." 

"Long known as a tastemaker," adds VARIETY, "his events have helped break SKRILLEX, CALVIN HARRIS, DIPLO, DEADMAU5 and JUSTICE. RICHARDS’ festivals have always mixed dance music with hip-hop, and never more thoroughly than this year’s 10th anniversary show.

"Hard SUMMER 2017 takes place at the Speedway in FONTANA, CALIFORNIA, on AUG. 5th and 6th and features SNOOP DOGG (who’ll perform his 1993 classic 'DoggyStyle' in its entirety) as well as MIGOS and RAE SREMMURD co-headlining along with DJ SNAKE, JUSTICE, ZEDS DEAD, BASSNECTAR and SKRILLEX and BOYZ NOISE’s project DOGS BLOOD in their only 2017 performance. Also on the 110-act bill are big-ish names like TY DOLLA SIGN, CASHMERE CAT, CHARLI XCX, MIKE WILL MADE IT, TINASHE, MOBB DEEP, E-40, a host of new acts namechecked in the interview below, and RICHARDS himself in his parallel DJ career as DESTRUCTO."

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