Aaron Thompson
Recent Stories (view all stories)
- Deep Fried Orphanz are a teenage riot
- Wednesday, July 27, 2011
- They're not old enough to drink yet, but Deep Fried Orphanz already has a pretty accomplished résumé
- As Wyatt McKenzie leaves Las Vegas, I'll miss the man as much as his music
- Wednesday, July 20, 2011
- The scene loses a hero. Aaron Thompson loses a "brother."
- A handful of thoughts from EDC Night 2
- Sunday, June 26, 2011
- Rave-o-holics, Bunny and Sean of the Deckz.
- 30-second metalhead review
- Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
- He’s known as Metal McLovin, and if you’ve ever been to a metal show in Las Vegas you’ve probably seen him.
- Monster Zero
- Sunday School Singalongs
- Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
- Why has Monster Zero waited almost a decade to release a second full-length album?
- Overheard at First Friday
- Random comments from the recently downsized cultural event
- Thursday, June 11, 2009
- Random comments from the recently downsized cultural event.
- Booming business
- Retooled venue, equipment rental put punk-rock couple on stable footing
- Thursday, June 4, 2009
- Boomers after hours isn’t a spectacular place. It's your typical dive-drinking establishment—everywhere, there are neon beer signs, televisions older than most teenagers and the acrid scent of ancient cigarette smoke, lingering.
- 6.66 reasons to get to know Demesic, Vegas’ iconoclastic instrumental death-metal trio
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
- Demesic’s dedication to brutal music—and the word “brutal”—is so intense, the trio practices weekly at Hill’s Sandy Valley-area compound, with the closest neighbor some three acres away.
- Hope is on her way
- Slowly but surely, a local singer-songwriter steps into the foreground
- Thursday, May 7, 2009
- Amongst the bright colors, skimpy clothes and flamboyant environment surrounding Saturday’s gay pride festivities, Tracey Hope, clad in subdued gold and black, seems out of place.
- Cruisin’ down the Thai way
- Restaurant-housed Skinny Jeans look to build a scene within the scene
- Thursday, April 30, 2009
- Calling the Skinny Jeans a rock band feels like an understatement. They’re a soccer team. And a promotions and production group.
Recent Blog Posts (view all entries)
- Jay Reatard, R.I.P.
- Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
- Sporting some of the finest curls, licks and, at least in Las Vegas, kicks, Jay Reatard will be sorely missed.
- Death by Japanther: Neon Reverb closes with endorphins raging
- Monday, March 16, 2009
- Six completely out-of-context and potentially misinterpreted topics that New York dirt rockers Japanther addressed during their festival-closing set at Beauty Bar:
- Doodle me tender
- Monday, March 16, 2009
- Things I was thinking (but didn’t say) during The Doodler’s set at Neon Reverb: 1. Man, I really want some chorizo.
- Grandma likes her hip hop fresh
- Monday, March 16, 2009
- Seventeen year-old Dylan Silva may be Anticon artist Doseone’s biggest fan, next to his grandma, that is.
- Neon Reverb stage banter
- Monday, March 16, 2009
- A few of our favorite quotes
- Rock 'n' roll all night
- Saturday, March 14, 2009
- It's nearly 1 a.m. and Black Patterns are setting up, almost insuring a 3 a.m. start time for Spindrift. Yeah, that's pretty late.
- Oh, what a fight
- Saturday, March 14, 2009
- Let's call bald drunk guy Tom. Now, let's watch Tom get angry and start messing with Click Bang!'s gear while they're playing it.
- Neil Young is not in the house
- Saturday, March 14, 2009
- A little help taking gear out of a venue is the best way to become friends with any band.
- That's a nice piece of meat
- Saturday, March 14, 2009
- Is it just me, or does the entirety of Fremont street smell like the juiciest hamburger ever made? .... Yea, I know that smell could also be the famous $1,000,000 stench that the city tried unsuccessfully to get rid of.
- No sleeping on this YACHT
- Friday, March 13, 2009
- Or puking, either
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