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  • Music

    Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

    The crowd had thinned considerably after 12 hours of music, but Sneak Attack Media showcase headliners More Amor nevertheless remained in high spirits throughout the duration of their midnight set during the kickoff of 2008’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York City Tuesday.

  • Music

    Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

    There’s a thin line, most spatial-emotional experts will agree, between love and hate. On her long-delayed second album songstress Rachael Yamagata doesn’t so much straddle the divide as alternately float above and thrash wildly about below it.

  • Music

    Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008

    Former Something Corporate frontman Andrew McMahon may have survived leukemia, but don’t expect him to get all sentimental about it

  • Music

    Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

    Having ditched her Rilo Kiley bandmates (albeit temporarily) and the Watson Twins—her collaborators on 2006’s otherwise-solo effort Rabbit Fur Coat—malleable indie songstress and onetime Las Vegas resident Jenny Lewis has found herself a new playgroup in an upgraded musical sandbox.

  • Music

    Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

    Seems like a lifetime’s passed since the Jason Schwartzman-bolstered Phantom Planet struck gold with starry-eyed O.C. theme song “California.”

  • Noise

    Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

    Yep, this is a guy who found success in and weathered the dramatics of the late ’70s/early ’80s.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

    He’s here, like, always. Yet Kevin Downey Jr. brings something new to the table—or rather, to the bar top—every time.

  • Music

    Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

    Shed of numerous auxiliary members yet still shrouded within their Kiss-like alter-egos (the Nightingale, the Walrus, the Lynx and the Skunk), the side project of one former and two current members of Rx Bandits, along with Circa Survive’s Anthony Green, is determined to go out big.

  • Music

    Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008

    The first time around, the Boston boy-band quintet was straight-up pop. Hit-churning, falsetto-unfurling, shriek-inducing pop. But times change, kids grow into men, savings accounts run dry and styles evolve for inevitable reunions.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

    There’s definitely material from this experience. I don’t have any set jokes yet; it’s basically one of those thing where I’m just going to get up, talk about what happens and see what flows out of my mouth, how the nurses acted and how not being able to wash your hair for 15 days straight is really disgusting.

  • CD Review

    Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

    Does the hook bring you back?

  • Film

    Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

    Following the oral biography "Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson" by Rolling Stone honcho Jann Wenner comes yet another project that exists precisely because the infamous journalist no longer does, having silenced his inner demons with a handgun at age 67.

  • Music

    Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

    The ’70s and ’80s saw Talking Heads perennially atop both critical and commercial lists, flying the new-wave flag with jittery, globally conscious pop that captured the heady times like few others.

  • Music

    Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

    Instantly familiar to anyone who’s ever watched a major motion picture in the last 35 years, Randy Newman’s mellow Southern California croon has long called to mind dependable friendships and lazy summer afternoons. But his point of view is currently far from comforted.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

    Tom Rhodes never attended college, yet he’s a better-read and more independent thinker than any of the political blowhards polluting television with their “expertise.”

  • CD Review

    Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008

    Used to be protracted legal battles were the domain of more established artists bickering over back-catalog royalties or accounting malfeasance. Similarly, most bands don’t experience the untimely death of a member and/or a vicious feud until they’re well past their prime.

  • Music

    Thursday, July 31, 2008

    Either the Omaha wunderkind has already hit his creative peak, or the contributions of his Bright Eyes cohorts Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott have long been overlooked in favor of heaping praise upon the figure at the rotating collective’s helm. That’s not to say Conor Oberst’s first wide-release solo effort is an outright disappointment; far from it.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, July 31, 2008

    In their own words, three Vegas comics at very different levels of their respective careers, and one rabble-rousing former Vegas open-mic-er, share their experiences throughout this year’s Just for Laughs in http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcz4cmfk_110hnzpznggMontreal, the largest and most prestigious comedy festival in the Western hemisphere.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, July 31, 2008

    The overwhelming majority of comics have “a thing.” A shtick. An angle. And then there’s Bobby Collins.

  • Noise

    Thursday, July 24, 2008

    Only two members—vocalist/guitarist Reggie Youngblood and his vocalist/keyboardist sister Ali—are technically black, and with each member well into his or her 20s, none would easily be mistaken for kids. But it’s not the semi-incendiary name alone that has had bloggers, and more recently, Columbia Records, fawning over the synth-loving fivesome’s debut full-length.

  • CD Review

    Thursday, July 24, 2008

    Agony & Irony by Alkaline Trio is a fast-paced and straightforward but somewhat castrated blend of pop, emo, goth and arena rock: generic bombast that evokes mild unease and not much more.

  • television

    Thursday, July 17, 2008

    “It’s too bright and shiny out there. I want it to be dark and dingy,” host Dave Attell grumbles in his debris-strewn dressing room in Stage 6 of Hollywood’s Sunset Bronson Studio. “I like bringing out the acts and giving them their moments, especially the quirkier ones, and defending them against the judges. But I think the set should read that this is not a talent show, it’s more of a bar show. It looks like a gay bank.”

  • television

    Thursday, July 17, 2008

    Las Vegas has no shortage of strange and strangely wonderful performers many of which turned out for The Gong Show try outs at V Theater in Planet Hollywood on May 13th. Meet the five locals that made the cut.

  • Music

    Thursday, July 17, 2008

    Making the leap from Brass Tacks to Epitaph offshoot Hellcat Records elicited nary a cry of “Sellout!,” but the move still raises expectations for the Boston quintet’s fourth LP.

  • Music

    Thursday, July 17, 2008

    Brendan Scholz is a man of few words. Or, more accurately, the Lydia Vance vocalist/guitarist is a man of few short-term plans.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, July 10, 2008

    Not many produce more than a few albums over the entire course of a comedy career.

  • Music

    Thursday, July 10, 2008

    Over the course of three albums, America’s best bar band has penned modern-classic rock ’n’ roll odes to drinking, drugging and generally partying until one passes out.

  • Local Music

    Thursday, July 10, 2008

    R.I.P. Doug Frye, local drummer, DJ and music scene mainstay

  • Thursday, July 3, 2008

  • Music

    Thursday, July 3, 2008

    If your knowledge of the duo formerly known as Black Swan begins and ends with Rabbit Fur Coat—Chandra and Leigh Watson’s alt-country effort with Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis—you’d be forgiven for expecting their debut full-length to evoke the second coming of the McGarrigle Sisters.

  • Music

    Thursday, July 3, 2008

    Love-struck garage-pop with huge, doo-woppy choruses may come across as both retro and a bit manufactured, and there’s a fair argument to be made that the Brooklyn four-piece’s defiantly unsigned status is a selling point in its own right.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, June 26, 2008

    There’s a pall hanging over a few segments of the population this week—the comedy geeks, those that came of age in the late ’60s and early ’70s and the all-around truth-seekers.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, June 26, 2008

    The Beauty Bar is certainly known for its live music and DJ sets, but thus far it has yet to fully embrace the potential of live humor.

  • Music

    Thursday, June 26, 2008

    Since forming in late 2006 with the expressed goal of injecting a heavy dose of classic rock, ’80s hair metal and Sunset Strip glam-punk into the local music scene, The Stript has toured the country, recorded in the Palms Studio and released a self-titled EP.

  • Music

    Thursday, June 26, 2008

    What a difference a couple of years makes. But since we’re talking about the SoCal stalwarts who inspired a million modern punkers with 1994’s Smash, this particular difference isn’t measured in terms of lyrical maturity or technical proficiency.

  • Sunday, June 22, 2008

  • Saturday, June 21, 2008

  • Saturday, June 21, 2008

  • Saturday, June 21, 2008

  • Music

    Thursday, June 19, 2008

    If classic country is a dusty ranch populated with remorseful former outlaws, broken-down truckers and the occasional ex-rodeo queen, Emmylou Harris’ seasoned lilt has long been a welcome spring shower, staving off a drought of irrelevance just in time.

  • A&E

    Thursday, June 19, 2008

    Leave it to a Wicked Little Town like ours to relaunch a production of the John Cameron Mitchell stage show turned 2001 film turned reinvigorated stage show with the most fervent cult following since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

  • Music

    Thursday, June 19, 2008

    One Pin Short celebrate their CD release party Thursday night plus more fun facts about the band that you should probably memorize.

  • CineVegas 2008

    Wednesday, June 18, 2008

    Los Angeles in the ’50s provided no cultural support or art scene to speak of, so from jazz, surfing, custom-car culture and Barney's Beanery residents shaped their own, from the ground up.

  • Wednesday, June 18, 2008

  • Monday, June 16, 2008

  • Monday, June 16, 2008

  • CineVegas 2008

    Sunday, June 15, 2008

    Pity Bernal wasn’t on hand for a post-film Q&A (seems the Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries and Science of Sleep star is attending a wedding in Spain this weekend), as Deficit is a film worth discussing—and rewatching—at length.

  • Sunday, June 15, 2008

  • Sunday, June 15, 2008

  • CineVegas 2008

    Saturday, June 14, 2008

    It might as well been called I Loved the End of World War II!, this irksomely grainy, black-and-white documentary about a collective of East End, London, gangsters, or as they prefer, “villains.”