It’s a refuge, the blues. That’s how the ZZ Top frontman sees it, at least.
Jason Bracelin
Reporter: Music
Email: jbracelin@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0476
Jason Bracelin once went on tour with Kid Rock so you don’t have to. Prior to first being named the R-J’s music writer in 2006, Bracelin was the music editor for the Cleveland Scene alt-weekly. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois. A Decatur, Ill. native, Bracelin has lived in Las Vegas since 2006.
The guitars growled like the thing commandeering his gut.
The co-producer of the show, now in its 19th year, sounds an insistently enthusiastic note as the festivities return to Las Vegas for an 11th year.
Jesse Amoroso speaks of the guitar the way a poet might try to encapsulate the scent of a rose.
Some of the most sublime grooves of the year come courtesy of Khruangbin’s boundary-less, largely instrumental funk on the group’s latest album, “Con Todo El Mundo,” where sounds are mined from Mexico to the Middle East to plenty of points in between.
Rafiki’s been hitting the gym in Summerlin, getting back in fighting mandrill shape.
A volcano exploded 135 years ago, and a Las Vegas rock club got its name. Eventually.
In heavy metal terms, it’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet of all-you-can-eat buffets.
New benefit concert Country58 debuts in Henderson, honoring the victims and survivors of 1 October.
Fall’s soundtrack is on full blast, its rhythms provided by the wind rattling through the trees, its choruses voiced by some chatty ducks.
Think of it as plunging into an ocean of song with bricks in your pockets.
It may be fall, but that “Summer Wind” will continue to breeze on by when Willie Nelson hits town in support of his latest record, “My Way,” a tribute to his good buddy Frank Sinatra.
Bassist Shavo Odadjian recalls dodging seasonal vegetables during the group’s first time onstage in Las Vegas.
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