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You can play DJ at Best Friend’s Sweet Thang Thursdays
There’s a bit of a rush that comes with making the song selection for the entire room, not unlike the feeling when your song comes up on the jukebox or when you take the mic at karaoke.
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Club Notes: Down & Derby, resident elrow, country at KAOS and more
Also, Temptation Sundays, the longest-running gay pool party in Las Vegas, returns for its 10th season on May 12.
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DJ Snake at XS and other Vegas club musts this week
Snoop Dogg at Drai’s and San Holo at Marquee.
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Plant a flag! The case for a CIty of Las Vegas rebranding
We need new flags for our cities and county. They can be created by a denizen of our Arts District, perhaps, or by someone in our commercial art sector. But make no mistake: Those new designs have to be about us, the people who live and work in this Valley. No showgirls. No dice.
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Sarah “Cellobat” Chaffee is stringing up your favorite songs
She has performed everything from David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” to Children of Bodom’s “Triple Corpse Hammerblow” to Rihanna and Calvin Harris’ “We Found Love.” Soon she’ll be onstage playing cello next to Steven Tyler for Aerosmith’s Park MGM residency.
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Folk-rock singer Cass McCombs talks Jim Morrison, hip-hop and Cook E. Jarr
“I had a girlfriend in Las Vegas and would spend quite a lot of time going to all kind of cool shows like Cook E. Jarr and Lance Burton. I’m into it, especially the more underground kind of music and magic.”
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SWMRS’ Billie Joe Armstrong connection doesn’t define its sound
Dizzying 2019 album Berkeley’s on Fire draws from grime, mod-rock, electro-pop and post-punk—highlighted by the Britpoppy jam “Too Much Coffee,” the bruising rocker “Hellboy” and the Smiths-meets-Head Automatica hybrid “Trashbag Baby.”
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Death Cab for Cutie, an Anne Leibovitz visit, Boulder City Beerfest and more stuff to do this week in Vegas
‘Whose Live Anyway?’ hits Smith Center, and Last Friday revs up again on Water Street.
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Digging into the lyrics of chart-topper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
His latest release, December’s Hoodie SZN, is a marathon listen that runs 20 songs deep. There are moments of brilliance and introspection, but it’s hard to ignore his tribulations of love.
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Forte Tapas celebrates 10 delicious years
To celebrate the big anniversary this summer, the restaurant is revving up with new chef Tylor Urias and a refreshed menu.
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Natalie Young’s Old Soul warms up World Market Center
The menu is approachable without being predictable, blending East Coast dishes with Southern-style flair.
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Lawan Thai Kitchen offers up a loaded, all-you-can-eat buffet
It’s all about filling lunchtime plates and bowls with tasty, fresh-made, small-batch selections.