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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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Someone Sent Us This: Chandelle’s ‘Cheatgrass Prison’

Jan 09, 2013 5:00pm
ChandelleCheatgrass 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...
<p>ILLUSTRATION BY GARY MAR</p>

Anywhere but here: Is touring the answer for ambitious local bands?

Updated: Jan 10, 2013 4:35pm
We’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

Jan 02, 2013 6:01pm
The 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

Jan 02, 2013 5:54pm
Maybe 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...

Music headlines we hope to write in 2013

Jan 02, 2013 4:41pm
Daft Punk to headline Electric Daisy CarnivalCity, county relax restrictions on all-ages venue licensesNeon Reverb gets stage at Life is Beautiful festA Crowd of Small Adventures signs with Sub...

Someone Sent Us This: The Burning Symphony

Jan 02, 2013 4:07pm
The Burning SymphonyDelusions of Sexual Grandeur (National Southwestern)For background, The Burning Symphony is Wyatt McKenzie’s noticeably heavier, straightforward three-piece rock project with...

The best of the worst in music, 2012

Dec 27, 2012 12:05pm
Kanye West performs in leather kilt, appeals to largely untapped Celtic leatherdaddy demographicEven though he wore a leather kilt over leather pants during last year’s Watch the Throne tour, this...

Best albums of 2012

Updated: Dec 31, 2012 9:57am
Most of last year’s notable albums either employed distance and vagueness, or clung too much to stylistic precedence. Not so in 2012. So many artists elevated their craft this year that paring down a...
<p>Fiona Apple / PHOTO: ERIK KABIK</p>

Primal ticket: The year’s best concerts were visceral and unpredictable

Dec 26, 2012 5:59pm
Gotta be honest: Sometimes I just want to stay in and watch a movie. And sometimes I hit a show and wonder why I do anything else. These 2012 performances reminded me that great concerts trump all...
<p>Dude City performs at the Cosmopolitan Pool. PHOTO: BILL HUGHES</p>

The best local performances and albums of 2012

Updated: Dec 26, 2012 5:10pm
It was a less noisy Vegas music scene in 2012. Bands broke up or gigged too sporadically. Musicians moved. Albums got shorter. Neon Reverb downscaled. But there were some bright spots for sure.LOCAL...