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Methodology in madness for alt-rockers Young the Giant

Young the Giant’s latest record, “Mind Over Matter,” registers immediately as smartly constructed, radio-ready alt-rock. The band plays the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan Friday night.

Tickets: Aerosmith, Slash coming to MGM

Rock favorites Aerosmith return to the MGM Grand Garden arena on Aug. 2, with Slash. Tickets are $49.50 and $149.50 and go on sale at noon Monday at Ticketmaster outlets.

Who will sing with Nirvana? Here’s our picks

Here’s who’d we like to see singing with Nirvana as the band gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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With hands from bands, Las Vegas studio still stands

The shelves are heavy with Las Vegas music history, stocked with dozens of 2-inch tapes packed into binders whose spines attest to all the bands that have recorded here.

For UNLV, 10,000 jazz albums are killer-diller donation

When Arnold J. Smith donated his collection of 10,000 jazz records to UNLV’s Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center, he hoped to create a living jazz collection, one that could be accessed and enjoyed

ACM ratings hit a sour note

Even though it beat out all other network shows Sunday night, more than a million fewer viewers tuned in to see the country awards in what may be their final broadcast from Las Vegas.

Kip Moore stockpiling songs while surging up country charts

It’s all good today for Georgia singer Kip Moore, who turned 34 on Tuesday. He’s up for the Academy of Country Music’s New Artist of the Year in Sunday’s televised awards. And he performs twice this weekend in Las Vegas.

5 favorite Nirvana covers

There are hundreds of Nirvana covers out there, but here are a few favorites as we mark the anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death.

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