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Rock in Rio plans permanent venue on Las Vegas Strip

Promoters plan to transform a 33-acre site at Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard into the City of Rock, a permanent concert and events venue that would serve as the home of the Rock in Rio music festival beginning in May 2015.

Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend celebrates 17th year

The 17th Annual Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender wrapped up Sunday at The Orleans after four days of music, cars, burlesque and events celebrating the rockabilly lifestyle.

Santana extends residency

Carlos Santana has announced a two-year extension of his residency at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay.

Country music singer Kevin Sharp dies at age 43

Kevin Sharp, a country music singer who recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a well-publicized battle with cancer, has died. He was 43.

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Coachella’s young audience a marketers paradise

When it first started in 1999, Coachella was a couple of stages and a dance tent. Tickets were $65. A few dusty stands sold hot dogs and Cokes. It was the end of grunge and the start of a new millennium, and it was all about the music. All for one weekend.

Hot rods, hot licks to heat up Orleans

Expect an abundance of killer hot rods and hairdos nearly as big as said rides with the return of the Viva Las Vegas rockabilly weekender, one of the biggest events of its kind in the world.

Waxahatchee, a one-woman band, wallows like no other

Young, naive love grows up on “Cerulean Salt,” the second album from one-woman-band Waxahatchee, and just as a kid’s bones ache in the midst of a growth spurt, so does Katie Crutchfield’s heart.

On Budget: Free shows

Get your hair slicked back for some rockabilly done right with Danny B. Harvey & the French Connection at 10 p.m. Saturday at the Double Down Saloon

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