The Marshall Tucker Band lives outside prevailing musical trends and has lived a long time. “The Intimidator” was probably still listening to “Can’t You See,” which was only a year old when Dale Earnhardt Jr. was born in 1974.
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Gary Numan’s reminiscing about one of the best Christmas presents he ever received, his voice now much deeper than it would have been in the mid-’60s, but no less kidlike, at least for the moment.
Soulive tends to spell things out for you, their very name testifying to their sound.
The announcement of Las Vegas dates by Queen with Adam Lambert prompts discussion of other bands that successfully replaced a lead singer, either through an untimely death or simply because everyone in the band wasn’t on the same page musically.
A new punk rock supergroup and a rising pop duo top the latest roundup of Vegas music releases:
How smooth is Pharrell Williams? The mere mention of his name is a powerful aphrodisiac.
Drive-By Truckers’ “English Oceans” is among a couple of new CDs we can recommend.
As a sturdily constructed African-American lady in spandex and a little person in a tight red leather get-up with a cone-shaped brassiere pistoned their rear ends up and down like human crankshafts, the costumed primate in question did what you do at a Miley Cyrus performance: you dance, and look out for the purple shark doing the same.
I felt like I was watching Bill Murray resurrect his funny “SNL” character, Nick the lounge singer, on Thursday when he helped raise $544,000 to fight the illness that put his dear friend, Vegas chef Kerry Simon, in a wheelchair.
A Las Vegas man is hoping to hit the national stage this season on NBC’s “The Voice.”
Close your eyes for a second, think of Miley Cyrus, and what’s the first thing that comes to mind? It’s probably a vision of Cyrus’ tongue, surging past her lips like an inmate on a prison break.
Dave Hause confronts adulthood with fists clenched, a child of the ’80s working hard to excavate buried dreams.
When it came time for the autobiography subtitled “Ray Charles’ Own Story,” Charles chose a down-to-earth name befitting a singer who belonged in any and every musical family: “Brother Ray.” Clearly, Ray Charles was — and is — a man for all musical seasons.
“Being grown up isn’t half as fun as growing up,” the Ataris once sang.
New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has added another show at the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on April 15. Tickets are $40 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com and Ticketmaster outlets.