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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...
Veteran lounge act The Lon Bronson All-Stars team with Steve “Doc” Kupka of Tower of Power
Fear & Lounging Comments Nov 28, 2012 4:09pmIF, BY SOME ACT OF GOD, Las Vegas were swept up in a blockbuster-inspired natural phenomenon, and in the Treme-style aftermath, while people were mourning their losses and contacting next of kin and...
Double decade: The Double Down turns 20, and its past and present performers look back fondly on the dive bar’s most memorable music moments
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Nov 28, 2012 3:47pmWe’re a little surprised the Double Down is still around 20 years later. Not because it’s a doomed business — one of the only real-deal punk rock dives in town, it’s a beacon of pukey light — but...
Music for motion pictures: They love live-soundtrack band Cinemetric in France
Fear & Lounging Comments Nov 14, 2012 4:05pmSometime in the past month, a group of kids from the valley became the most recent local band to say they’ve toured internationally. They did this before getting a record deal, or even recording an...
Looking homeward: Is leaving Vegas to be a musician elsewhere all it’s cracked up to be?
Fear & Lounging Comments Updated: Nov 14, 2012 3:40pmMark HuffNashvilleI have been here in Nashville for nine years now, and I have found it to be not so much easier to forward my career, but a lot more opportunity and more work. Nashville being an “...
Bring the Noise: Guns N’ Roses, Nov. 2, The Joint
Fear & Lounging Comments Nov 07, 2012 3:18pmDuring the onslaught of promotion for Guns N’ Roses’ 12-date run at The Joint, members liked to say the band would be doing things it hadn’t done before. I’ve only seen GNR once before, but the show...
Bring the Noise: Eddie Vedder, Nov. 1, The Pearl
Fear & Lounging Comments Nov 07, 2012 3:09pmThere are too many great moments to recount from the second night of Eddie Vedder’s two-date solo stand at The Pearl, which has our vote for best rock show of 2012 so far. These ones stick out in...
