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Music institutions survival update

May 15, 2013 3:07pm
SLOW TO SURFACE: We had it pegged to survive the apocalypse. Sadly, the local rock warhorse called...

Our FYF Fest spillover wishlist

May 15, 2013 3:07pm
Venue bookers and promoters: Take note of these acts playing FYF in late August, most of...

Cosmopolitan tops gay party spot expansion

May 15, 2013 3:07pm
Nightlife promoter Eduardo Cordova has been quiet the past year, waiting for the...

Reviews: Daft Punk serves up real robot rock; Vampire Weekend matures and diversifies

Updated: May 17, 2013 2:19pm
Daft PunkRandom Access Memories (Columbia)Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of any given...

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Veteran lounge act The Lon Bronson All-Stars team with Steve “Doc” Kupka of Tower of Power

Nov 28, 2012 4:09pm
IF, 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...
Jesse Amoroso of The Loud Pipes goes airborne during the Double Down's 18th Anniversary show.

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

Updated: Nov 28, 2012 3:47pm
We’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

Nov 14, 2012 4:05pm
Sometime 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?

Updated: Nov 14, 2012 3:40pm
Mark 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

Nov 07, 2012 3:18pm
During 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

Nov 07, 2012 3:09pm
There 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...

Teenage wasteland

Oct 31, 2012 5:15pm
Two months before its members meet us to write this story, we saw Bear With Me for the first time. They were loose, baby-faced, by all accounts bushy-tailed as they sweat through an un-air-...

The Wolf closes

Oct 31, 2012 5:10pm
After almost two years of operation, Black Camaro’s Brian Garth has decided to close his Chrome Werewolf Studios in the Arts District. Originally opened as a way to complete his band’s long-awaited...
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Bring the Noise: Bob Dylan, Oct. 27, Mandalay Bay Events Center

Oct 31, 2012 4:57pm
The good: Solid setlist. He picks the best of his recent comeback along with refreshingly reworked chestnuts like “Blowing in the Wind” (the saloon remix), “Highway 61 Revisited” (the honky-tonk...

3D6: A nerdy question for a nerdy band

Oct 31, 2012 4:49pm
In anticipation of their upcoming performance at the Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival, we asked local nerdcore band 3d6 (in reference to a die rolled in Dungeons & Dragons) one important question...