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Archive for October, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007 MMMMMM, Battery Acid By Jason Bracelin Matthew Bellamy’s guitar bit people’s heads off and spat battery acid.
Rivaling the Queens of the Stone Age for buffet-of-riffs supremacy at Vegoose, Muse unleashed the six-string pyrotechnics with enough force to make Zakk Wylde’s goatee wither.
Seriously, what’s with a bunch of demure English dudes doing stomping alt-rock’s head in?
Dense and enveloping, their tunes are soft [...]
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 Vegoose Sings The Body Electric By Jason Bracelin It’s been a pretty laidback day so far, with more jams bands making their presence felt, the better to soothe a 1,001 hangovers with.
There’s also been a couple of decent electronic-oriented sets, like Ghostland Observatory, a psychedelic electro rock duo with a frontman who’s a dead ringer for dead Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon.
They came [...]
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 Hot Hot Heat By Jason Bracelin Hook up the Gatorade IV, as Vegoose day two is off to a sweltering hot start.
Still, there’s a solid crowd here from the get-go, sweating beer in the sun, courting dehydration like a drunk hitting on a supermodel.
It was a slightly wobbly beginning to the proceedings, with a more sprase crowd at the onset, with [...]
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 The mothership has landed By Jason Bracelin They began with an allusion to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and it was an apt one: the mothership most definitely landed when Daft Punk touched down on the Double Down Stage at a bit past 10 p.m.
It was a near hallucinatory experience, a hypnotic torrent of light and sound that could’ve entranced a [...]
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 The Crowd Gets Down With The Stooges and M.I.A. On Stage By Jason Bracelin A riot of sound stampeded through the loudspeakers as M.I.A. commanded the stage like a stoned drill seargant.
Wow.
Gunfire, wailing sirens, ricocheting beats, it was a sensory overload. Thet set ended with the crowd invading the stage, dancing wildly with their hands over their heads.
The same scene replicated itself an hour later when the Stooges threw [...]
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 Wooly mammoths devour Vegoose By Jason Bracelin Ever stub your toe in the middle of the night, fall down a flight of stairs into a giant pit of broken glass, finally manage to crawl out of it, only to be confronted by a pack of underwed rottweilers?
That’s kind of what seeing Mastodon was like.
The heaviest band to play Vegoose yet, they hit [...]
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 Sweaty Start By Jason Bracelin "What the hell are you doing here?" Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hurtz asked at a quarter til 1 p.m.. "It’s too early."
C’mon, it’s never too early for gypsy punk, dude.
The sweat was flowin’ from the onset as Vegoose got off to a fiery start with Gogol Bordello’s foot stompin, needle-in-red Eastern Bloc jams that never [...]
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 It’s on By Jason Bracelin The line wraps a third of the way around the stadium (way more people here eaqrly than last year), Battles is soundchecking, the weather is beautiful (a little hazy, nice breeze) and Vegoose is 10 minutes from getting underway. Gogol Bordello is up first, which should be like swallowing a firecracker at this early hour. [...]
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Friday, October 26, 2007 Friday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius It’s almost the weekend! Start it off right with a round of Quick Hits!
OK, let’s clarify something: Just because we at CityLife can — thanks to a federal court ruling — advertise for legal brothels in adjacent counties, it doesn’t mean prostitution is legal in Clark County. Got that, everybody? Prostitution — such as [...]
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Friday, October 26, 2007 At least he’s consistent By Steve Sebelius You know, our critics probably think we can’t say anything good about Gov. Jim Gibbons. But seriously, how can we when he takes almost every opportunity to screw the pooch (politically speaking, that is)? Plus, we didn’t make him drink at McCormick & Schmick’s, kick a highly qualified person off the homeland security commission or [...]
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