Welcome December with LeVita Beverage’s Boozy Holiday Party

Last Saturday, Allison Wonderland brought her 11th annual “Icelantic” winter concert to Denver. Due to Red Rocks Amphitheater’s winter construction, this year’s winter concert was at Mission Ballroom, which hosted Alison Wonderland, Channel Tres, Sam Blacky and more. From start to finish, the full lineup turned up the heat giving the audience rhythms to dance to and tunes to keep warm with. House music blended into hip hop, mixed with pop tunes and drum and bass transitions leading to an eclectic Saturday night.

Raised in Westminster, Joshua Thompson — known on stage as Laika Beats — has had eyes and ears on the Denver underground music scene for quite some time. Like so many music lovers, Thompson grew up in a home with stacks of CDS and vinyl surrounding him, which reflected his parents’ passionate disposition towards a wide variety of musical genres. This included groups like Nirvana and Three 6 Mafia, which expanded Thompson’s understanding of music and society. His youth was spent learning piano and guitar, but pursuing a musical career was not his goal when he enrolled at the University of Colorado Denver. Nonetheless, fate intervened when Thompson’s roommate, a music major, took him to his first rave. That’s when he fell in love with the electronic music culture.