“Thank you for sticking around for us!” shouted Swingin Utters’ frontman Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel before his band’s headlining gig at the Beauty Bar this past week, the band’s second in Vegas this year following a spot on the Punk Rock Bowling festival. ...

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Spring means it’s time for Success. For the third consecutive April, the Seattle-based pop punk band (think Iron Chic, not All Time Low) made a Vegas stop on their tour, and the night was another one in a growing tradition of Success shows with good friends and fun jams that doubled as a birthday party for TheCore. co-frontman Sal Giordano and Mercy Music leader Brendan Scholz. ...

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Thursday, April 4 was what I’ve come to find is a pretty standard night at Favorites. Sets by Success, Poke da Squid, TheCore. and Deadhand were punctuated (and often accompanied by) the antics of one overly drunk helmet-wearing, gymnastically-inclined bar patron who spent the evening dancing onto stage barefoot, only to fall backward and be picked up by a like-minded man equipped with a far too dangerous laser pointer. So that sets the stage, right? ...

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