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Review: New David Bowie album!
Music Stories Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:02pmDavid BowieThe Next Day (ISO/Columbia)For countless years, everyone has wanted the newest David Bowie album to be his return to form — to no avail. 2002’s Heathen was marketed as “classic Bowie” —...
Smells like teen spirit: Local rapper Ekoh figures out who he is
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 3:54pmIt’s 11 a.m. and there’s a reality show host and a Chippendale and an MMA fighter — and Jeff Thompson has no idea what he’s doing. He spends the first two hours of the afternoon dodging the eye of a...
Save Yayo Taco!
Music Stories Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:12pmThe Friday night after Yayo Taco’s announced closing, the venue, its patio and its parking lot were littered with kids out in support of the last legit all-ages music spot in the valley. The bar and...
@#&%!: Music acts with obnoxious punctuation
Music Stories Comments Mar 06, 2013 5:09pmImprov rock band Moe. is returning to the Hard Rock Cafe this week. It’s also one of several bands that obnoxiously punctuates its name. Other guilty parties:Panic! at the DiscoGodspeed You! Black...
Sexual reeling: A debut album by Boulder City band Same Sex Mary is out
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 06, 2013 4:13pmJames Adams is sitting at his computer, a comically massive rectangle in contrast to his cozy, thrown back, record-full living room in Boulder City. He’s clicking through hand-sketched album artwork...
Moombahton: A quick field guide
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 01, 2013 9:07amHow do you say that? MOOM-bah-TOHNWhere does it come from? Geographically: according to the Internet, in 2010, from a producer called Dave Nada in our nation’s capital. Conceptually: a mixture of...
Fret ‘n’ wild: The Sky Guitar
Music Stories Comments Updated: Feb 20, 2013 6:19pmThe medieval riff-slanger (see photo at right) might look like the ultimate adolescent fantasy, but actually, it separates the men from the boys. For few teenage rockstar wannabes could possibly tame...
Review: Atoms for Peace’s ‘Amok’
Music Stories Comments Feb 20, 2013 5:28pmAtoms For PeaceAmok (XL Recordings)Does it sound like The Eraser 2, or leftovers from The King of Limbs? Nope. The debut album by Thom Yorke’s other band — y’know, the one with Flea — establishes...
Mike Ziethlow and Money Plays house a fledgling community one open mic at a time
Music Stories Comments Updated: Feb 13, 2013 2:13pmMoney Plays has been nestled into a cramped strip mall on West Flamingo Road since 1989. Which is ridiculous, considering how other bars with substantially more unique traits have gone under in a...
Review: My Bloody Valentine’s ‘M B V’
Music Stories Comments Feb 06, 2013 4:53pmMy Bloody ValentineM B V (self-released; www.mybloodyvalentine.org)To hear the new My Bloody Valentine record, some 22 years after the release of its seminal Loveless album, requires a balancing act...
