Let’s just get it out of the way right up front: yes, Miley Cyrus slapped a twerking little person’s butt as she sang into a banana-shaped microphone while wearing a see-through white top and what looked like black masking tape pasties as diminutive dancers dressed as mushrooms, flowers and rainbows gyrated woozily like drunk Super Mario Brothers characters in a display of knowing kitsch or winking satire or unintentional career self-immolation that was simultaneously child-like and carnal, like an episode of “Sesame Street” directed by Paul Verhoeven.
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You were having the time of your life and you were lucky just to be there.
When Hanson came to fame at the tail end of the grunge era in 1997, context made them seem especially precious: Seeing their video for breakout hit “MMMBop” next to clips from hall-of-fame brooders like Soundgarden and Pearl Jam was a welcome ray of sunshine poking through all those cloud-covered skies.
R&B singer John Legend returns to The Pearl at the Palms on Nov. 30. Tickets start at $49 and go on sale at noon Monday at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Are you the type who roots for the zombies as they gobble guts in all those end-of-the-world splatter-a-thons?
Tony Orlando once rightly predicted that rock stars such as Elton John — who once scorned Las Vegas and its tuxedoed showmen — would end up on the Strip themselves.
Perhaps the best thing about the annual iHeartRadio Music Festival, which returns to the MGM Grand for the third time this weekend, has been all the collaborations that have taken place between the many superstars on the bill. Here’s what we’d like to see this year.
It’s raining steady and traffic is snarled. The devil’s work, obviously.
The Beatles plan to release a new collection of the band’s BBC sessions, including commercially unreleased recordings and studio chatter.
Hip-hop superstar Kanye West headlines the MGM Grand Garden arena on Oct. 25. Tickets start at $49.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster outlets.
Remember when Blink-182 spent its time writing songs about having sex with dogs and grandparents and thinking of things that rhyme with dysentery?
The organizers of the Sin City Soul & Blues Revival call it the “most comfortable blues festival on the planet” thanks to 40-plus bands on “two air-conditioned stages plus one at the Rio’s fabulous pool!”
Sure we’d all rather see John Fogerty, and it’s good he’s out playing again.
If you were to play that “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game with Steve Lukather instead, “we wouldn’t get past two (degrees) my friend,” he says.
“An Evening in Hell.” That’s the thematic motif, and title, of Motley Crue’s forthcoming residency at The Joint, the band’s second at the venue, which will attempt to live up its name in the most literal sense.