Aaron Thompson
Recent Stories (view all stories)
- A walk down punk rock memory lane at Extreme Thing
- Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- What, did your teen years not include mosh pits and chipped teeth?
- 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.
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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