Music
Sam Riddle was once a lounge singer, playing his grand piano in his three-piece suit. But that wasn’t him.
Elvis Monroe, made up of performers from Paperback Hero, Matchbox Twenty, Lifehouse and other bands, is scheduled to perform once a month in Rocks Lounge at Red Rock Resort, beginning Thursday.
About 20 minutes before she flew through the air, looking like Peter Pan if Peter Pan was a Zumba instructor with steel-belted biceps, Pink bellowed out the evening’s guiding principle.
The first night of the two-day iHeartRadio Music Festival kicked off at the MGM Grand Garden on Friday with an assortment of incongruous guest appearances (Britney Spears, Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, South Korean YouTube sensation Psy) and lots of pyro and pupil-contracting visuals.