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A chat with Sérgio Dias, Las Vegan and frontman of Brazilian rock act Os Mutantes
Music Stories Comments May 08, 2013 7:04pmYou have said that the hard part of music is figuring out what the hell you did on record and re-creating that in concert. With your tour just starting, have you sussed all that out yet, or are you...
Doom Metal 101 with Demon Lung
Music Stories Comments May 08, 2013 6:58pmSince metal rivals electronic music for subgenre count, we decided it was time to get schooled. So with Demon Lung’s first full-length album, The Hundredth Name, coming out next month on Candlelight...
Three local music shows you shouldn’t miss
Music Stories Comments Updated: May 10, 2013 10:48amDee Dee Bridgewater with the Las Vegas Academy Jazz Combo You could crowd seven mantelpieces with all the awards garnered by these two local jazz titans. LVA kick-starts its May residency at Jazz in...
Review: Guest conductor fails to ignite Philharmonic liftoff
Music Stories Comments May 08, 2013 5:39pmKeep looking. That’s my firm advice to the Las Vegas Philharmonic after guest conductor (and music director candidate) David Lockington gave thoroughly dispiriting accounts of music from three...
Northtown duo Anorexia adds lyrical sass to its deceptively sweet pop personality
Music Stories Comments May 01, 2013 8:17pmSomewhere beneath the thundercloud of hardcore and the hiss of overdriven punk rock hides Anorexia, a North Las Vegas indie duo out of place in the area’s mix of heavy, diaphragm-tearing rock ’n’...
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...
