More Music ↓
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...
Music headlines we hope to write in 2013
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 4:41pmDaft 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
Fear & Lounging Comments Jan 02, 2013 4:07pmThe 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
Music Stories Comments Dec 27, 2012 12:05pmKanye 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
Music Stories Comments Updated: Dec 31, 2012 9:57amMost 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...
Primal ticket: The year’s best concerts were visceral and unpredictable
Music Stories Comments Dec 26, 2012 5:59pmGotta 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...
The best local performances and albums of 2012
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Dec 26, 2012 5:10pmIt 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...
