Although busy with the release of his live album At a Bar and touring under the Drunks Go Acoustic moniker with Jared Stinson of Sic Waiting and Matt Salkeld of Black Sails Western Shores, local singer/songwriter Brock Frabbiele was kind enough to take a moment to play some new tunes for our Stripped Down Sessions. The songs are “Champagne & Pearls,” and a cover of Pulley’s “Hooray for Me." ...
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Video: Last Call “Live Together, Die Alone” live at the House of Blues
Today we’re bringing you video of a live performance of Last Call’s new song “Live Together, Die Alone.” They performed the new song, which will be appearing on their upcoming full length, at last week’s XPOZ Battle of the Fans. Want to see them in the flesh? You can catch Last Call live when they open for Set Your Goals at the Hard Rock Café on the Strip March 12. ...
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Stripped Down Session: Brock and Sal of TheCore. “Let ‘Em Eat Cake.”
It’s been almost a year since Sal and Brock of TheCore. agreed to be the first musicians to take part in our Stripped Down Sessions, and I recently came across a “lost episode” from that day that I wanted to share. Here is “Let ‘Em Eat Cake” by TheCore., shined-up and re-mastered. ...
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Stripped Down Session: Jason Cruz of Strung Out (two songs)
Jason Cruz is a poet, a tattoo artist, and is best known as the vocalist and lyricist for long-running Southern California punks Strung Out. But as he showed us last week before their January 29th show at the Hard Rock Café, Cruz is also a talented solo musician. He was gracious enough to share with us two solo songs, “Lubricating the Revolution” (originally from Strung Out's An American Paradox ) and “Leavin’ Kind” and you can see them here. ...
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Stripped Down Session: SHARKS (two songs)
Punks in Vegas goes international today as we bring you two brand new songs from Leamington Spa, England's SHARKS. We met up with the band's singer/guitarist James Mattock before the January 27th show at the Joint with Social Distortion and Frank Turner and he was gracious enough to play us two songs from SHARKS' upcoming release No Gods. The songs are "Arcane Effigies" and "What Entails?" and the album will be available March 20, 2012 via Rise Records. ...
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Stripped Down Session: Meaning In Masterpiece “Louder Than Words”
You know a song is good when you only have to hear it once to have it stuck in your head for days. That’s what happened to us after we filmed this Stripped Down Session with Devin Perkins, guitarist/vocalist for Huntington Beach, CA pop punk band Meaning in Masterpiece. The catchy song is “Louder Than Words” and it comes from their debut full-length record Sinking Cars. ...
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Video: Trey the Ruler at The Aruba Hotel 1/14/12
Just before The Sheds took the stage at the Vegas stop of the Heart to Heart/The Sheds/Currents DisasTOUR, we were treated to a pleasant and thought-provoking surprise in the form of spoken-word poet Trey the Ruler. ...
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Stripped Down Session: The Braces (two songs)
The Braces just wrapped up tour with The Bogarts and we were lucky enough to meet up with the band on their way to Santee, California. The Thousand Oaks, CA punks played two songs from their upcoming fell length Two Years: "Vandal" and "Black Eye Makeup." The album is set to be released sometime in 2012. ...
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