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- Our favorite Life Is Beautiful sets—ever!
- Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023
- When crowds descend on Fremont East this weekend, they’ll encounter a living museum of great street art from festivals past—and some fun new surprises.
- Las Vegas’ 20 Greatest Music Rooms—Ever
- Thursday, June 8, 2023
- From the Copa Room to the Colosseum, the Bunkhouse to Brooklyn Bowl, counting down Las Vegas’ all-time concert spaces.
- 15 Acts to Catch at Las Vegas heavy rock festival Sick New World
- Thursday, May 11, 2023
- Death Grips, Deftones, Fiddlehead, Kittie, Placebo, Scowl, The Sisters of Mercy and, yep, Korn.
- Resurgent New Zealand trio Bailterspace brings its noisy brand of shoegaze to Las Vegas (at last)
- Thursday, April 20, 2023
- “I have about 24 songs written down, and then normally, I chose on the night that we play, and then off it goes. It’s a sonic thing, and it’s got a movement to it," frontman Alister Parker tells the Weekly in a rare interview.
- Diving into Vegas Golden Knights merchandise with retail director Maggie Sweeney
- Thursday, April 20, 2023
- “This demographic has proved that they like their goalies, but for the most part, it’s the most evenly distributed [jersey] numbers I’ve ever seen.”
- Eating up Vitos’ birria-centric menu
- Thursday, March 23, 2023
- After weeks of intense research, our first recommendation is to bring a friend, order two queso tacos apiece and share the birria fries or nachos.
- The Las Vegas scene pays tribute to Blair Dewane with a weekend of music and hugs
- Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022
- The list of performers reads like a local who’s who from the past decade and a half: Dusty Sunshine, Dark Black, Hassan Hamilton, Mercy Music, Same Sex Mary, Indigo Kidd, Halloween Town …
- Dollar Loan Center’s Craggy Range Bar & Grill beckons, even during the daytime
- Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022
- Happy hour runs weekdays from 2 till 5, and it’s a fun one.
- Las Vegas bottle shop and bar Khoury’s expands to meet community demand
- Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022
- “On a busy night, a group would come in, and there’d be no seats available. I didn’t like to see that.”
- Lamaii’s expansion continues elevating the Henderson dining scene
- Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022
- The Thai eatery works best with a hungry group, so you can pass around plates of ceviche, garlic green beans and the show-stopping filet mignon tartare as you decide what comes next.
- Psycho Las Vegas and Resorts World: A strangely harmonic match made in heavy metal heaven
- Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022
- The year-old North Strip resort rolled out the blood-red carpet for Psycho’s attendees, making almost every potential performance space available to Psycho’s 150-ish and their fans.
- 15 acts to catch at the 2022 Psycho Las Vegas music festival
- Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022
- We’re excited about At the Gates, Warpaint, Spiritworld, Marissa Nadler and the GZA/Inspectah Deck team-up, among others on this weekend’s Resorts World bill.
- The Shins’ James Mercer looks back on ‘Oh, Inverted World’ and ahead to Las Vegas
- Wednesday, July 20, 2022
- On July 22, The Shins will return to town for the first time since 2017 with a concert at the Theater at Virgin—one that will begin with a full presentation of their 2001 debut album.
- Changing course: Ryan Pardey, rocking the real estate market
- Thursday, March 24, 2022
- “Every client is different, the same way every band is different,” says the former entertainment director for the Bunkhouse Saloon.
- Touring Las Vegas’ newest local concert spots with promoter Patrick “Pulsar” Trout
- Thursday, March 10, 2022
- “Trying to get someone to come to a show now is not anywhere close to trying to get someone to come to a show in 2019. It’s an entirely different ask.”
- Day N Vegas: Acts to catch, a lineup quiz and more!
- Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021
- The hip-hop festival returns to the Las Vegas Strip with Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone and Tyler, the Creator topping its powerhouse bill.
- New Downtown Las Vegas music venue Swan Dive positioning for Main Street opening
- Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021
- "Best-case scenario we’d be open by the middle of next year," says Harvey Graham, who also operates Downtown dance club Oddfellows.
- Sights and sounds from Life Is Beautiful's 2021 Las Vegas return
- Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021
- Set reports from Billie Eilish, Tame Impala, Megan Thee Stallion, St. Vincent and more.
- Get to know young, new Las Vegas duo Maxwell Gang
- Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021
- Inspired by Gorillaz, the pair created six characters—Maxwell, Mogue, Eli Prod, Lyle Deadwax, Cash William and Sewer Kid—each of whom has a separate sound, and a song named after them.
- Vegas music scene mainstay Ronald Corso in hospital after suffering stroke
- Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021
- His family is operating 11th Street Records in his absence, and has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for medical expenses.
- How are fans supposed to feel about the Vegas Golden Knights parting ways with Marc-André Fleury?
- Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021
- It could be said that Las Vegas didn’t truly become a major-league town until July 27, 2021. That’s the day the franchise traded its most beloved player.
- Get to know Las Vegas ‘vacation metal’ quintet Lords of Death
- Thursday, June 24, 2021
- Influences include Hot Water Music, Thin Lizzy and 1986 Kurt Russell cult classic ‘Big Trouble in Little China.’
- Shuttered Bunkhouse Saloon impacted by Sunday fire
- Sunday, June 13, 2021
- According to an eye witness, firefighters responding to the call discovered a homeless encampment inside the music venue, which has been closed since the pandemic hit in March 2020.
- Live music returns to Fremont Street Experience with a blowout celebration
- Thursday, May 27, 2021
- The free, four-hour overnight celebration on three stages begins as the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, June 1.
- Las Vegas' concert calendar coming back into focus
- Tuesday, May 11, 2021
- The whens and wheres for Deadmau5, The Weeknd, Harry Styles, Phish, Roger Waters, Justin Bieber, My Chemical Romance, Ween and more.
- Curious about fantasy baseball but afraid to try it?
- Thursday, March 18, 2021
- Here are the basics, so you can join a league—or create your own—before opening day (April 1).
- Billie Eilish, Green Day, Tame Impala top Life Is Beautiful's 2021 Las Vegas festival lineup
- Wednesday, March 10, 2021
- More than 60 acts revealed for the three-day Downtown gathering, set for September 17-19.
- Year in Review: Our favorite 2020 TV shows and films
- Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020
- ‘The Mandalorian,’ ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘Palm Springs’ and more.
- Year in Review: Our favorite 2020 albums
- Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020
- Where did Fiona Apple, The Weeknd, Perfume Genius and Run the Jewels rank on our four critics’ lists?
- Local spin: New releases from Mercy Music, Same Sex Mary and Jacob Smigel
- Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020
- Hear all three on Bandcamp now.
- COVID-19 survivor John Gist, concert promoter
- Thursday, July 16, 2020
- “I let my guard down,” he admits. “I played with the wild dog, and I got bit.”
- Album review: Deerhoof’s ‘Future Teenage Cave Artists’
- Thursday, June 11, 2020
- Bassist Satomi Matsuzaki and drummer Greg Saunier sing about a dystopian world—oh wait, that’s our actual, broken reality.
- Could a live-show hybrid—exclusive audiences with worldwide streaming—help save Las Vegas’ concert industry?
- Thursday, May 14, 2020
- “You’re seeing artists wanting to take streaming to the next level, and Vegas has some of the best production in the world,” Billboard’s Dave Brooks says.
- Psycho Las Vegas pushes its next festival to 2021
- Monday, May 4, 2020
- The new dates: August 20-22, 2021 at Mandalay Bay.
- Comfort spins: Revisiting some of our all-time favorite Vegas recordings
- Thursday, March 26, 2020
- Hassan, Holding Onto Sound, Jacob Smigel and more.
- Album review: Guided By Voices’ ‘Surrender Your Poppy Field’
- Thursday, March 19, 2020
- Pollard’s preternatural ability to bounce around the pop/rock spectrum makes ‘Poppy Field’ a real contender for GBV’s upper upper pantheon.
- San Diego post-hardcore band Hot Snakes is back and better than ever
- Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
- The group started performing sporadically again in 2011 before eventually releasing its first album in 14 years, the excellent ‘Jericho Sirens,’ in 2018.
- Dweezil Zappa brings his father’s classic ‘Hot Rats’ album to life onstage
- Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020
- Four of the record’s six songs clock in past the five-minute mark, with several—”Willie the Pimp” (9:21), “Son of Mr. Green Genes” (8:58) and “The Gumbo Variations” (16:55)—featuring significant jazz-rock improvisation.
- A few favorite shows from shuttering rock club Vinyl’s eight-year run
- Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020
- Built to Spill, Bombay Bicycle Club, DeVotchKa and more.
- Dynamic vocalist Jamila Woods brings her poetic music to town
- Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020
- The Chicago native opens for Raphael Saadiq January 24 at Brooklyn Bowl.
- Cursive brings Cloud Nothings and Criteria to the Bunkhouse
- Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020
- After more than a decade together, noisy, Cleveland-based punk quartet Cloud Nothings is finally set for its live Vegas debut.
- 20 From 20: Our favorite albums of the past 20 years
- Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020
- Spencer Patterson and Case Keefer run through their picks, from Boston Spaceships and Tim Hecker to Jason Isbell and Tegan & Sara.
- Show stoppers: Our favorite concerts of 2019
- Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019
- From Thom Yorke to Elton John, and OMD to Refused.
- Nineteen ways to close out 2019 on New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas
- Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019
- Lizzo, The Chainsmokers, Future, the Golden Knights and more.
- Magical music: Our favorite albums of 2019
- Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019
- FKA twigs, Lana Del Rey, Weyes Blood and some you might not have heard yet.
- Modern folk hero Ryley Walker talks sobriety, Twitter persona and Genesis bootlegs
- Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019
- “I like that the personality and vibe of each day changes the show. Maybe a bad buffet in Vegas will affect the way I play that night.”
- Priming you for Built to Spill’s ‘Secret’ celebration
- Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019
- The tour celebrates the 20th anniversary of 1999 LP Keep It Like a Secret, the third piece of the Boise indie rockers’ beloved ’90s album trilogy.
- Thom Yorke's Chelsea stopover dazzles the eyes as much as the ears
- Monday, Oct. 28, 2019
- Despite not playing a traditional instrument during the show, visual artist Tarik Barri stands onstage as an equal member of the band, status he demonstrated that he absolutely deserves.
- Kura Revolving Sushi puts a new spin on dining out
- Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019
- Most dishes on the belt cost $2.50, which means you can share a sizable 10-plate meal with a companion for $12 each (beer, tax and tip aside).
- Priming you for Interpol’s Las Vegas return
- Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019
- The NYC band performs here for the first time since 2015, October 4 at the Chelsea.
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