I’d never seen Hank 3 live before but had heard rumors about how great he is, so I was really psyched for this show. There were no openers, as Hank fills the night with three different sets, one county, one hellbilly and one metal. ...
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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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Break-ups: Air Drifter
We’re sad to report that local easycore band Air Drifter has decided to breakup. ...
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Video: Frank Turner and Matt Nasir “Wherefore art thou Gene Simmons?” (piano version)
A few stories above where a band of KISS buskers argued over the best corner for photo ops, British folk/punk singer Frank Turner and his Sleeping Souls pianist Matt Nasir churned out this stunning, sparse version of “Wherefore art thou Gene Simmons?” ...
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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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