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Hip-hop event Skratchpad coming to Vegas
Music Stories Comments Feb 06, 2013 3:24pmSan Francisco-founded Skratchpad will gain a Las Vegas chapter, lead by local DJ Hector “DJ DIELEKT” Delgado. Taking place the second Tuesday every other month, Skratchpad informs and educates about...
From beach to garage: Trevor and The Joneses will blow your brains out
Music Stories Comments Jan 30, 2013 4:51pmPraise Jesus 12-String Christ for the fury and temerity of nasty, grimy, paisley-printed rock ’n’ roll. The kind of garage rock that Trevor and The Joneses play unabashedly, unpoetically, almost...
Coachella: Our wish list
Music Stories Comments Updated: Jan 24, 2013 3:45pmAs of press time, SoCal promoter Goldenvoice hadn’t announced the lineup for the 14th Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio Calif., to be held April 12-14 and 19-21.But already, local venues...
Former local promoter Tommie Gonzalez gives buzzing Norwegian bands a home at his label
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Jan 30, 2013 3:33pmTommie Gonzalez’s road to starting a record label began with a skateboard magazine.Anyone who grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s may recall Thrasher, the Rolling Stone of skate mags. Buried among...
Someone Sent Us This: Earth Rising
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 16, 2013 4:24pmEarth Rising, Constant Movement (self-released)I know nothing about Earth Rising besides what I’ve just learned by listening to the local quintet’s sophomore release, Constant Movement. What you’ll...
Sounds from the underground: The future of electronic dance music in Las Vegas
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Jan 23, 2013 4:28pmThe bass drops. It’s the first dubstep song of the night, emerging from a sludge of mashups and reappropriated soul breaks. The crowd cheers, boozy perspiration rising to varnish The Griffin back...
Someone Sent Us This: Chandelle’s ‘Cheatgrass Prison’
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 09, 2013 5:00pmChandelleCheatgrass Prison (Devil’s Tower)Chandelle Gleed’s solo project is a big step forward from her work with Vitamin Overdose. Whereas the latter was dirty, intentionally dragging and lo-fi duo...
Anywhere but here: Is touring the answer for ambitious local bands?
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Jan 10, 2013 4:35pmWe’re going to drop some brain bombs right now. No band becomes an internationally touring sensation by never leaving Las Vegas. That isn’t to say it won’t be known. Weirder things have happened than...
Review: The Killers exhibit performance chops, excessive zeal at Cosmo show
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 6:01pmThe Killers have evolved into a well-oiled, intuitive and assured live act and, gripes aside, its sold-out Cosmopolitan debut inside the awkwardly laid-out Chelsea Ballroom on Dec. 28 was the Vegas...
Review: The Black Keys lack energy in NYE show
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 5:54pmMaybe I was expecting too much of the show, this Black Keys performance at The Joint on New Year’s Eve. As if they’d somehow top Stevie Wonder’s barn-burner at The Cosmopolitan last year. But neither...
