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Parties out of bounds: Halfway 2 Halloween and Pinnacle
Music Stories Comments May 01, 2013 8:10pmFOR 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
Music Stories Comments May 01, 2013 6:49pmAnyone 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...
What Life is Beautiful can learn from Coachella
Music Stories Comments Updated: Apr 26, 2013 9:31amBooking: 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...
Our week at the Cosmo
Music Stories Comments Updated: Apr 24, 2013 7:26pmOf 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
Music Stories Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:34pmTo 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
Music Stories Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:31pmIn 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
Music Stories Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:27pmZERO: 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...
What you missed at Coachella weekend two
Music Stories Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 6:56pmLas 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
Music Stories Comments Apr 17, 2013 6:49pmLucky 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
Music Stories Comments Apr 17, 2013 6:39pmNew 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...
