Metalheads converged upon the House of Blues Las Vegas April 25 to see Atlanta sludge metal band Mastodon play with Ghost and Opeth. ...
Read More →Metalheads converged upon the House of Blues Las Vegas April 25 to see Atlanta sludge metal band Mastodon play with Ghost and Opeth. ...
Read More →Seattle punk invaded the Double Down Saloon on April 12 as locals Deadhand welcomed Success and The Loss to our city. ...
Read More →Viva Ska Vegas started a day early with a kickoff party featuring some ska (Murder Majesty), some ska-influenced punk (The Flatliners) and some not-at-all ska (The Heartsounds) at the Aruba Hotel. ...
Read More →One of my favorite shows we’ve ever had here in Vegas was the Ska Summit, an early aside to the Extreme Thing that saw ska bands big and small from every era ascend onto Desert Breeze Park for a day of fun and skanking. Almost a decade later, the people behind last month’s Viva Ska Vegas managed to recapture much of that same fun, albeit on a smaller scale (which will hopefully grow larger if this becomes an annual event). Once again ska fans were treated to a day of horns and upstrokes from a number of national, international and local ska bands that covered every wave of ska, giving everyone something to look forward to. ...
Read More →Last month marked the Revival Tour’s fourth stop in Vegas. And lest you think it has grown stale – rest assured that it has only gotten better with age. ...
Read More →We recently celebrated the first birthday of PunksinVegas.com with an anniversary bash at Alternate Reality Comics featuring Jesse Pino, Jeff Rowe and Bennett Mains. ...
Read More →It’s hard to believe that more than a decade has gone by since I attended the first Extreme Thing, and looking around, I can’t deny that there were moments at this year’s festival when I felt a little old and confused. Admittedly, I don’t understand the appeal of dubstep and some of the electronic elements that have seeped into pop punk and hardcore over the years, but at the same time, there was more to love than ever at this year’s festival. Read More » ...
Read More →Brooklyn, New York’s Laura Stevenson and the Cans made their Las Vegas debut at the Bunkhouse Saloon on March 27th to a small-but-adoring Tuesday night crowd. As soon as Laura crooned the first note of the set there were audible “wow”s from lingering barflies who were quite intoxicated, but no less correct in their evaluation of the talent. ...
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