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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.

Third time’s no charm

The Alley calls it a night again, but hints at a fourth go-round

Thursday, April 2, 2009

That’s right, even before the curtain has drawn on the Alley’s final performance, the thrice-opened, thrice-shuttered all-ages music hub is already, essentially, dead.

Sound and furry

Three questions with Mons Wolff

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009

Traditionally nerdiness hasn’t been known to score points in abrasive subcultures, and the guys in Vegas outfit Mons Wolff know it.

Anarchy on the AM

Double Down Radio does punk radio on the cheap, but for how much longer?

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

Steve Fodor and Zak Farrell look about like anyone else does on a Friday night at the dingy punk haven that is the Double Down Saloon. Farrell is sporting a reddish mohawk and black T-shirt with cut-off sleeves, while the semi-shaven Fodor chills out in a blue hoodie.

To a T

As we finally pack away our T-shirts for a couple of months (see you in late February, shirt-sleeve weather!), a few reflections on our favorite piece of clothing

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008

The key has something to do with obscurity—flaunting your command of segments of popular culture that only the hyper-clued-in know about or remember. But it’s not as simple as, say, showing off your rare 1970s-era repress of a Dirty Harry shirt.

The Airbag’s response

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

Regulars at the notoriously grouchy local-music online gathering place weigh in on last week’s Weekly piece about their favorite forum.