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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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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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October and November are jam packed with awesome shows this year, but the one I was most looking forward to came first – and will likely be hard to top. It was a pop punk power house bill with The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket and The Copyrights, coinciding with Beauty Bar’s Nickel Beer night, so I knew it was going to be a packed show. While the dirt cheap booze was a good enough incentive to bring out the drinkers, I think more than a few of them were won over by the bands’ hook-driven sets. ...

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