Oh Brad Paisley, you’ve put yourself in quite a spot.
Music
Earlier in the month, L.A.’s Fitz and the Tantrums opened for Bruno Mars at the MGM Grand, a fitting pairing: Both look to the past in an attempt to dominate pop music’s present.
Is there room for a guitar hero in the “Guitar Hero” era?
Puddle of Mudd
Get funky and/or dead with this latest roundup of Vegas music releases.
Las Vegas was introduced to MGMT in a fluid catalog of music to go with a visual eruption of shapes on the background of the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan on Monday night.
“The Great Gatsby” (PG-13): Leonardo DiCaprio gives an Old Hollywood-style star turn as the title character in director Baz Luhrmann’s wildly anachronistic take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic.
It may not be a good thing for her, but Miley Cyrus had the most memorable moment at the MTV Video Music Awards.
The image of a dismembered teddy bear, exposed entrails looking like scarlet spaghetti noodles, is a fitting visual representation of MGMT: The psych pop subverts can make even the most whimsical things seem disquieting — and vice versa.
For a while there, Wavves frontman Nathan Williams had turned not trying into a kind of aesthetic with disaffected, lo-fi jams befitting of a stoned stoner getting more stoned.
Buoyant French alt-rockers Phoenix headline the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Oct. 8.
Ever seen “Waking Life,” Richard Linklater’s animated, metaphysical meditation on the bounds of reality?
B.B. King will be in his own backyard for a change when “Frampton’s Guitar Circus” rolls into town.
Skorchamenza, Slave Labor Union, Lights Down Low, Leopold & His Fiction, “Soul Shakedown Party”
Most reporters hate teleconferences. But most teleconferences don’t come with a Lee Strasberg/“Godfather II” riff as they do with Steely Dan.