At long last, you can be a winner at the game of life by checking out these two righteous new EPs in the latest roundup of Vegas releases:
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Brittany Howard’s one of those singers who could recite the ingredients to a bottle of Prell and make it sound like something from the bottom of the heart, that basement of love and longing.
Rancid are punk rock’s id, ego and superego all at once.
He poses like old-school R&B lady killers on his album covers and raps about falling in love with disco queens.
If Las Vegas tribute bands haven’t yet tried to make costumed fun out of ’90s nostalgia, it’s maybe because the real ’90s heartthrobs aren’t yet ready to look back.
“The Funny or Die Oddball Comedy Festival,” featuring Dave Chapelle, Flight of the Concords and others, takes over the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Sept. 21. Tickets are $55, $95 and $135 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster outlets.
A fan on her way to a Dave Matthews concert in Pennsylvania pulled over to help a stranded bicyclist who turned out to be none other than the singer himself.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
He already brought sexy back, so what’s Justin Timberlake to do for an encore?
The British progressive rock band Yes held its ground with a faithful audience on Friday, filling about the same two-thirds(ish) of the Pearl at the Palms as the band did with the same sparse stage production last summer, when
Jon Davison was first introduced to local audiences.
“I’ve never been comfortable with legend peddling,” says Yes co-founder Chris Squire. But this summer he’s willing to make an exception.
Justin Bieber has apologized by phone to Bill Clinton for cursing the former president and spraying his photo with cleaning fluid in a New York City restaurant kitchen earlier this year.
