Johnny Mathis gave up a shot at the Olympics to make his first recording. Almost 60 years later, he’s still singing — and returns to Las Vegas to make his Smith Center debut.
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When five-time Ultimate Fighting Championship champion Randy Couture asks you for money, you should seriously consider giving him some.
There are 10 million paying subscribers to the streaming music service Spotify, but for the many people who use it there’s a catch: the knowledge that the artists whose music is available receive little payment from having their songs played.
Think of it as a sort of open-air blues club where fresh air replaces the cloud of cigarette smoke, your beverage choices are classy craft brews instead of mass-produced domestics, and your fellow concertgoers may include actual wildlife watching from off in the distance and not just wild-eyed guys burping on the next bar stool.
Jane Monheit uses her voice to do more than sing: she swings, she glides, she can be saucy, tell a story, be funny, be breathlessly sensual, even reduce her audience to tears. She did all of this and more in her 90-minute show Friday at Cabaret Jazz.
Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a headphone and music streaming specialist that also brings the swagger of rapper Dr. Dre and recording impresario Jimmy Iovine.
Superstar DJ-producers on EDC lineup include Calvin Harris, Tiesto, Kaskade, Avicii, Afrojack and many more.
Punk Rock Bowling defies the sound barrier, the passage of time and the withering heat of the asphalt-covered festival grounds downtown. For punk, time has passed, things have changed, but plenty has remained constant.
Quote of the day: Masked Intruder singer/guitarist Intruder Blue trying to drum up sales for the band’s new album at their merch booth: “Buy our record, or we’ll rob you. I’m serious.”
Cher doesn’t change, so what does? The eternal pop star’s “Dressed to Kill” tour doesn’t sound radically different from the headliner show that parked at Caesars Palace from 2008 to 2011. Reviews from the road cite gymnasts, Vegas-y production numbers, the same “Half Breed” headdress and the same Cher ass (which turned 68 on Tuesday) in chaps.
When you think of guys who played Las Vegas for much of their lives, you think more about David Copperfield or Donny Osmond than Ziggy Marley.
Underscoring just how big a national draw Punk Rock Bowling has become, every show has sold out in advance. Really though, the bands are only half the attraction of PRB. With fans flocking to downtown Vegas from around the country, the fest has the feel of a particularly debauched family reunion.
For R&B singer Maxwell, seduction is as effortless as the drawing in of a breath, his 1996 debut “Urban Hang Suite” having catalyzed the creation of a whole lot of the 18-year-olds now among us.
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