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Thinking big

Young Vegas band prepares to rock and roll all nite—again

Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

Stepping onstage in support of theatrical rock legends Kiss—and staring into the painted faces of their fanatical legions—would rightfully daunt any fresh-faced band.

The Dandy Warhols

… Earth to The Dandy Warhols …

Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

As music fans, we’re auto-conditioned to side with bands over labels whenever the two butt heads.

Stereolab

Chemical Chords

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

Convenient as it might be to trace Stereolab’s continued stretch of relative mediocrity back to the loss of longtime member Mary Hansen, in truth the slippage dates well beyond the 2002 bicycle accident that claimed Hansen’s life.

Three questions with Deer Tick's John McCauley

We caught up with the underground folk-rock hero from his home in Rhode Island.

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

I’ve played in an ice-cream parlor. I’ve played in the back of a frame shop. I played a fashion show at a VFW post the other day. I’ll never forget the magic-shop show—I think it was the most bizarre venue I’ve ever played. I could do with forgetting the ice-cream parlor show. But nowadays Deer Tick’s mostly playing clubs.

Parting words

Much-adored pop-punks Fletch gear up for final show, future projects

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

They stood 6-5, with the afros 6-9, hated Tommy Lasorda and charged steak sandwiches to the Underhills’ tab. Okay, they didn’t really, but like the Chevy Chase flick with which they shared a name, popular local band Fletch are a thing of the past.

Preservation at a price

A plan’s afoot to save the historic Huntridge Theatre by turning it into a commercial center

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

The next time you’re standing in the historic Huntridge Theatre, you might be picking up a pair of flip-flops. Not at a band’s merchandise table; the 44-year-old building at the corner of Charleston and Maryland isn’t coming back as a concert venue. Last Wednesday at a neighborhood meeting, owner Eli Mizrachi unveiled plans to turn the structure and its adjacent property into a 38,000-square-foot retail and office complex, which he hopes to open sometime in 2009.

Banding together

Conference offers some useful tools for its participants; just don’t call it a festival

Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

More than 100 bands and artists performed Downtown over a three-day span last week, and odds are you’ve never heard of any of them.

The Walkmen

You & Me

Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

A lot of folks who thought they liked The Walkmen smelled a rat when they heard 2006’s A Hundred Miles Off, or more accurately put, they didn’t hear one. Nothing on that disc sounded remotely like “The Rat”—the hard-driving track that had garnered so much attention from Pitchfork, the A.V. Club and the like two years earlier—and that cost the New York quintet both audience and acclaim.

Calamity Jayne, take two

She helped create a music scene. She served hard time in a federal penitentiary. And Las Vegas’ most infamous musical outlaw lived to talk about it all with the Weekly

Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

A quest for buried Japanese treasure. Low-flying aircraft loaded with cocaine. Three million dollars in the trunk of a Jaguar. FBI agents eavesdropping on phone sex. A cellmate with cannibalistic tendencies. Savory ingredients for a zany Hollywood movie, packaged with a built-in soundtrack from Iggy Pop, Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana. Someday, perhaps, but for now the storyline replays mostly in the memories of the woman best known as Calamity Jayne, a curious case of life imitating art if ever there was one.

Calamity's Most Notorious

Weird and wonderful moments from the club's four-year run

Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

Pissed off Kurt Cobain, contracts on cocktail napkins and Iggy Pop. A selection of the weird and wonderful moments from four years of rock shows at Calamity's.