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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...
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...
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...
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...
Not the Last Call just yet
Fear & Lounging Comments Dec 12, 2012 6:54pmBack in July we spoke with heavy-hearted Last Call frontman Austin Jeffers, during which he laid out one of the most depressing stories of a band totally screwed out of what should have been an easy...
Jamey Johnson’s real country
Fear & Lounging Comments Dec 12, 2012 6:48pmWe Las Vegans bemoan the absence of certain cultural institutions. Take authentic country (also see: traditional, outlaw, alt-country, Americana, bluegrass), for instance. Its acts usually bypass...
Broken record: It’s the same ol’ song in our otherwise prospering nightlife scene
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Dec 12, 2012 5:00pmBe careful what you wish for. Even an industry of control-freaks like local nightlife might just give it to you. Sort of.It happened once before. Many in the nightclub scene clamored for electronic...
The five spot: Where can I see real jazz played in town?
Music Stories Comments Updated: Dec 05, 2012 7:52pm“Where can I see real jazz played in town?”Whether called in during deadline or yelled in my ear during a gig, this remains, in my experience, one of the questions most frequently asked by Vegas...
