After their show at The Box Office last night, the Poplar Center for Cultural Excellence welcomed We Are The Union for the latest Punks in Vegas Stripped Down Session. The ska punks, who released the catchy Great Leaps Forward on Paper + Plastick Records last year, stopped by the house to play an acoustic version of their song "Curtain Calls." ...
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Stripped Down Session: Cory Branan “Survivor Blues”
If you aren’t listening to folk/country extraordinaire Cory Branan, you’re missing out. The singer/songwriter, whose last full-length 12 Songs came out in 2006 on Madjack Records, is bringing his charismatic live show on the road this summer, touring with Joey Cape’s Bad Loud, the latest project from the Lagwagon/Bad Astronaut frontman. Before his show last night at the Bunkhouse in Las Vegas, Branan stopped by the Poplar Center for Cultural Excellence to film "Survivor Blues" for the Punks in Vegas Stripped Down Sessions. ...
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Stripped Down Session: Old Man Markley “Song Songs”
The bluegrass punks in Old Man Markley made a big splash at last year’s Punk Rock Bowling music festival. Since then they have signed to Fat Wreck Chords and released their debut full length, the excellent Guts ‘n Teeth. Fresh off returning to Vegas to play Punk Rock Bowling 2011, they stopped by the Double Down Saloon last night to kick off their Oot n’ A Boot Tour. Before the show, singer/guitarist John Carey and fiddler Katie Weed were gracious enough to play Song Songs, a track from Guts ‘n Teeth, exclusively for the Punks in Vegas Stripped Down Sessions. ...
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Stripped Down Session: Deadhand “Back Up”
Brendan Scholz, Jarred Cooper and Aaron Weislogel have been making music together for years now in Vegas, first as Lydia Vance and now as Deadhand. ...
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Stripped Down Session: Brock Frabbiele “Seize the Carp”
Christian radio personality Harold Camping is predicting that the world will come to an end this Saturday. Will it be by asteroids? Zombies? Brock Frabbiele’s money’s on a bomb. ...
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Stripped Down Session: Brock and Sal of TheCore. (two songs)
This past weekend I was able to combine two of my favorite things, music and comics, when Brock and Sal of TheCore. dropped by Alternate Reality Comics to film the first Stripped Down Sessions for Punks in Vegas. Enjoy "Magazine St." and "Meet Me at Nipsey’s." ...
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