Life is Shit festival brings punk, rock and roll and more to The Dive on October 26

Next weekend brings the inaugural Life if Beautiful Festival to downtown Las Vegas. The two-day music and arts event, which is being put on by Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh’s The Downtown Project, is a spiritual successor to the sorely missed Vegoose music festival in that it looks to the indie rock world to make the bulk of its Coachella-inspired lineup. ...

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Stripped Down Session: Teenage Bottlerocket (two songs)

I've been a huge fan of Teenage Bottlerocket for so long that it almost seemed unreal when co-frontman Ray Carlisle agreed to meet up with us at the Beauty Bar before the band's October 1st show with The Queers and The Copyrights. Their music is so catchy and so much fun and I thought they'd be naturals to go unplugged for a few songs and Carlisle proved me right, with rad acoustic versions of "Todayo" from They Came From the Shadows and "Fall For Me," which originally appears on Total.  ...

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Images: We Came as Romans, Silverstein, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, The Color Morale, Dangerkids October 7, 2013 at Hard Rock Live

Coming off a stint on the Van's Warped Tour, Detroit rockers We Came As Romans set forth on their Tracing Back Roots tour with support by Silverstein, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, The Color Morale, and Dangerkids, stopping at the Hard Rock Live on October 7. ...

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