Aaron Thompson

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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.

Recent Blog Posts (view all entries)

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
Aaron meets Cougar: A scare, with a happy ending: Friday, March 13, 2009; Mark being attacked/lead into a jig by a hyperactive cougar at a indie noise band's show off of the list of things I need to do before I die ...