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Punk Rock Bowling: The essentials

May 22, 2013 5:12pm
WHEN: Friday-Monday, May 24-27WHO’S PLAYING: Outdoor festival headliners (May 25-27) include Devo,...

CD review: The National, ‘Trouble Will Find Me’

May 22, 2013 4:24pm
It used to be that you had to come to The National’s albums. But Trouble Will Find Me...

Our favorite song titles from ‘The Fast and the Furious’ soundtracks

May 22, 2013 4:04pm
1. “Failbait”2. “G-Stro” (look it up on Urban Dictionary)3. “You Slip, She Grip”4. “Put...
Fat Mike, left, and his band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

On the eve of Punk Rock Bowling’s 15th anniversary, participants reflect on their experiences at the raucous festival/tournament

Updated: May 23, 2013 12:04pm
Another Memorial Day Weekend, another Punk Rock Bowling. But it’s not just another music...

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Parties out of bounds: Halfway 2 Halloween and Pinnacle

May 01, 2013 8:10pm
FOR YOU FREAKY DANCERS fatigued or alienated by the local EDM onslaught: This weekend brings two expressive underground events produced by experienced, Vegas-based promoters.Last year, veteran party-...

Hakkasan: EDM for the rich

May 01, 2013 6:49pm
Anyone visiting the recently opened MGM Grand nightclub/restaurant Hakkasan haplessly looking for any skeletal trace of Studio 54 — the longtime Strip danceteria closed early last year for the new...
Audience members at Coachella (PHOTO: AP)

What Life is Beautiful can learn from Coachella

Updated: Apr 26, 2013 9:31am
Booking: A lackluster lineup for the inaugural Life is Beautiful festival — scheduled to take over multiple indoor and outdoor stages around Fremont East during the last weekend in October — will...
The Postal Service (COURTESY: AL POWERS)

Our week at the Cosmo

Updated: Apr 24, 2013 7:26pm
Of Monsters and Men: April 17, Boulevard PoolHigh point: Icelanders. Of Monsters and Men were charming, accented, extremely talented performers who felt more like a family than co-workers.Low point:...

Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society takes a victory lap

Apr 24, 2013 6:34pm
To hear Smith Center emissaries tell it, culture in Las Vegas was all but nonexistent prior to a year ago, when a massive concert-hall complex was bestowed upon our fair city. What, then, are we to...

His Royal Purpleness returns to Las Vegas

Apr 24, 2013 6:31pm
In St. Paul, Minn., inside the Minnesota Historical Society, in the collections department on Level B, in a vertical glass case, is a purple suit smaller than what would be worn by most men who wear...

Why I didn’t buy anything on Record Store Day

Apr 24, 2013 6:27pm
ZERO: the number of items this music obsessive bought on Record Store Day. Don’t get me wrong — I made sure to cruise the makeshift aisles of Zia Record Exchange while at Coachella on retail music’s...
<p>Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes, performs at the second weekend of the 2013 Coachella. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)</p>

What you missed at Coachella weekend two

Updated: May 01, 2013 6:56pm
Las Vegas enjoyed two weeks of indie/alt-rock concert spoils, thanks to the bounty that is Coachella. But there were plenty of must-see acts on the Southern California festival’s roster that didn’t...

Cerebral dance/rock act Lucky Cuss doesn’t do anything the easy way — just the way they like it

Apr 17, 2013 6:49pm
Lucky Cuss makes music the way Henry Ford made Model Ts: sending an idea down a creativity conveyor belt, letting each member add as it goes along. Producer Trav E B Washere creates the groove on...

The highs and lows of last week’s Coachella-spillover show marathon

Apr 17, 2013 6:39pm
New Order, Johnny Marr: April 11, Boulevard Pool at The CosmopolitanHigh point: Tie. Was it the three-song encore exclusively dedicated to the songs of the Manchester’s predecessor, Joy Division? Or...