Music
This year’s Viva Ska Vegas festival was decidedly riding the Third Wave more than skank fests of the past. Viva Ska Vegas was hosted by Tazy Phyllipz, creator of So Cal radio show The Ska Parade. Be Like Max represented the local Ska set, but noticeably absent were The Remedies who played a show elsewhere [...]
With Coachella’s second weekend coming to a close, the Band of Horses’ presence at the Cosmo's Boulevard Pool marked the end of a busy couple of weeks as the non-official satellite stage for the mammoth Indio, California based music festival. As a closing act, Las Vegas couldn’t do too much better than the Band of Horses. [...]
I'm a born & raised Baltimore native, and although I'm a converted desert rat now, the offbeat culture of Charm City still holds a special place in my heart. Suffice it to say that I was looking forward Beach House's show at the House of Blues for some time. Yeah, they weren't playing at a church [...]
Karen O walked back on stage for the encore and said, "We were just talking back stage. I'm not fucking with you. Best. Vegas. Show. Ever." But I'm getting ahead of myself. Indie art-rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs hit up the Boulevard Pool Saturday night at The Cosmopolitan to support their upcoming album Mosquito. The wind [...]
In 1997, Jason Pierce penned the lines, "Think that I'm a winner baby; probably Las Vegas." That song, "I think I'm In Love," was one of the highlights of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. Sixteen years later, Spiritualized made good on the bet by playing an "intimate" Friday night show at the House of [...]
Vampire Weekend graced the Las Vegas Strip on Friday at The Cosmopolitan’s Boulevard Pool. The straight-laced indie group formed at Columbia University in 2008 and has been shifting the sound of indie pop since. I remember hearing a review of Vampire Weekend ages ago that basically asked the question, “This is indie music now?”. The band has [...]
The New Order concert at The Cosmopolitan this past Thursday was a must see for any self-respecting Joy Division fanboy, present company included. Opener Johnny Marr must be doing yoga or something; he didn't look a day over 35. Although his vocals were buried a bit in the mix as he's known to do, Marr's [...]
Flogging Molly celebrated St. Patrick’s Day Eve in style last night with a wild, high-energy performance at the Boulevard pool at The Cosmopolitan. Dave King led the crowd in a traditional Irish-American party, complete with music, drinking, dancing, and storytelling. King obviously enjoys regaling the crowd with stories of the inspiration for his music almost [...]
I first met Bobby Meader in Boulder City at a show I was playing with local musician Jessie Owens. Bobby was holding a case full of harmonicas that he would later use to accompany Owens' music. What I didn't know then, in that in that stuffy small-town bar, is that Bobby had his own solo music and apparently one hell of [...]
It felt like being trapped in a sardine can at Friday's Sea Wolf show that took place downtown in the recently gutted and gilded Beauty Bar. The crowd mostly consisted of young googly-eyed girls with thick rimmed glasses and vibrant lipstick that claimed their space (more like territory) as close to the stage as possible [...]
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