Imagine Dragons tied goth pop sensation Lorde with 12 nominations when the finalists for the Billboard Music Awards were announced Wednesday.
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Do you remember the incredibly emotional YouTube video of born-deaf Sarah Churman getting an ear implant so she could hear for the first time? Well, she is coming to Vegas to experience her first rock concert.
The Warped Tour is taking mercy on Las Vegas fans, moving the punk-rock endurance test off the concrete and on to the grass-covered UNLV Intramural Fields. The all-day show takes place June 19, which triple-digit heat is the norm.
One of the reasons that Lorde has become a pop star is that she has no business being a pop star to begin with. At least not if you listen to her tell it.
Japanese punk rock superheroes Peelander-Z will blow minds and save souls at 10 p.m. Friday at Double Down Saloon, 4640 Paradise Road. The show is free; call 702-791-5775.
Juan Gabriel was a big enough star to launch Las Vegas as a Mexican Independence Day party mecca, and he is big enough now to play here on a different weekend.
If Trombone Shorty needs a roof over his head between weekends at Coachella, the new Brooklyn Bowl should feel just like home.
The Austin, Texas-based band Leopold and His Fiction is fronted by Detroit native Daniel James, and the musical heritage of his hometown — Detroit — can be heard as loud and clear as one of James’ tongue-wagging guitar solos.
Young the Giant’s latest record, “Mind Over Matter,” registers immediately as smartly constructed, radio-ready alt-rock. The band plays the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan Friday night.
Rock favorites Aerosmith return to the MGM Grand Garden arena on Aug. 2, with Slash. Tickets are $49.50 and $149.50 and go on sale at noon Monday at Ticketmaster outlets.
Henderson’s free Stroll ’n’ Roll on Saturday, and the Smith Center performance of “Women Fully Clothed: Older and Hotter,” on Friday are two of the many events in the valley this weekend.
Here’s who’d we like to see singing with Nirvana as the band gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The shelves are heavy with Las Vegas music history, stocked with dozens of 2-inch tapes packed into binders whose spines attest to all the bands that have recorded here.
When Arnold J. Smith donated his collection of 10,000 jazz records to UNLV’s Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center, he hoped to create a living jazz collection, one that could be accessed and enjoyed
