10 posts tagged “music”
The New Joint, the new bigger concert venue at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, opens next month.
Here's the all-star lineup:
4/17 8 p.m. The Killers
4/18 8 p.m. Avenged Sevenfold (with Atreyu & Rev Theory)
4/19 8 p.m. Paul McCartney
4/24 9 p.m. Bon Jovi
4/25 8 p.m. Kenny Chesney (with Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum)
5/23 9 p.m. Flight of the Conchords (with Arj Baker)
7/13 7:30 p.m. Rise Against (with Rancid & Billy Talent)
9/13 8 p.m. Ricardo Arjona
In addition, concerts will be held poolside on Fridays at 9 p.m.:
5/1 Rusted Root
5/15 Eek-A-Mouse
5/22 Ozomatli
5/29 Sugar Ray
6/5 Gavin Rossdale
6/26 Gin Blossoms (with Tonic)
7/24 Unwritten Law
8/14 Los Lonely Boys (with Los Lobos)
9/11 Collective Soul
Pool shows are on presale through March 13 at 10 p.m. (password POOL).
Shows are subject to change can can be purchased at the Joint box office or at Ticketmaster with all their fees.
On Sunday night at her Circus show in Tampa, Fla., Britney Spears was heard on a live mic saying, "My pussy was hanging out." This came after Spears was lowered down in a metallic-looking gold costume after the song "I'm a Slave 4 U." Perez Hilton, who kicked off her tour March 3 in New York with a video of him welcoming the star on her comeback, of course has photos. The Circus tour continues nationally. To see Britney and her hoo-ha
in Las Vegas, both will appear at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on
Saturday, April 25 at 8 p.m. Tickets run $55 to $275 (the $275 rate is
still available) and can be purchased at any of the MGM Grand box
offices or Ticketmaster.com with all their fees.
Just in case you thought she was lip-synching...
Janet Jackson’s Rock Witchu tour, her first in seven years, will stop kick at the Mandalay Bay Events Center September 19. Tickets go on sale Saturday, June 14 at 10 a.m.
Tickets priced at $55.75, $100.75, $150.75 and a limited amount of Golden Circle tickets priced at $300.75 will be available at the Mandalay Bay Events Center Box Office, www.livenation.com, www.mandalaybay.com and all Ticketmaster outlets. To charge by phone call Mandalay Bay at (702) 632-7580 or TicketMaster at (702) 474-4000. All dates, acts, and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable taxes, and service and handling charges. For more show information, check out www.livenation.com.
The legendary rock band KISS is bringing their Alive/35 Tour to The Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms on Aug. 29.
Tickets for KISS are $103.00 and $303.00, plus any additional service fees and go on-sale Saturday, June 21, 2008 at noon. Please visit any Ticketmaster location, call 702-474-4000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com to purchase tickets. The Pearl Box Office is open from noon – 7 p.m. daily. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. and show time is 8:00 p.m. The Pearl is home to Miller Lite Live, presented by Cricket Wireless; for more information on upcoming concerts, please call 702-942-6888.
Members of the Vegas funk/pop/rock band THINK from left: Phillip Seaton, Brandon Knaff and Adam Knaff.
A Las Vegas-based funk/pop/rock band has been selected to open for KISS on August 29 at The Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms. The group, THINK, is also opening for KISS at the Rock N’ The Rally in Sturgis, S.D. on August 4. Band members are: Brandon Knaff on guitar and lead vocals, Phillip Seaton on lead guitar, Adam Knaff on bass, Sam Riddle on keyboards and Billy Carmody on drums.
Music mogul Jay-Z will celebrate the grand opening of The 40/40 Club — his upscale sports bar/lounge — on December 30 at The Palazzo.
Jay-Z and girlfriend Beyonce Knowles will perform together at the event, which is expected to attract several A-list celebrities and athletes. Some of the high-profile stars expected to attend include: David Beckham & Victoria Beckham, Michael Jordan, Alex Rodriguez, Mariah Carey, Magic Johnson, Tom Brady, Barry Bonds, Derek Jeter, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey and Shaquille O'Neal.
Jay-Z
and his friends will continue the party on New Year's Eve when they
celebrate the start of 2008 at The 40/40 Club. Doors open at 9 p.m. at
the venue. Tickets for the party are on-sale now and available at
www.the4040club.com. Tickets start at $200, with each ticket including
a champagne toast.
Music mogul Jay-Z will celebrate the grand opening of The 40/40 Club — his upscale sports bar/lounge — on December 30 at The Palazzo.
Jay-Z and girlfriend Beyonce Knowles will perform together at the event, which is expected to attract several A-list celebrities and athletes. Some of the high-profile stars expected to attend include: David Beckham & Victoria Beckham, Michael Jordan, Alex Rodriguez, Mariah Carey, Magic Johnson, Tom Brady, Barry Bonds, Derek Jeter, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey and Shaquille O'Neal.
Jay-Z
and his friends will continue the party on New Year's Eve when they
celebrate the start of 2008 at The 40/40 Club. Doors open at 9 p.m. at
the venue. Tickets for the party are on-sale now and available at
www.the4040club.com. Tickets start at $200, with each ticket including
a champagne toast.
The criteria for judging a city's value should include the number of songs written about it. Sure, real estate, job market and schools are important metrics of a city's worth, but a city without a song is a city I don't want to live in. If a city can't inspire enough passion in someone to write a song about it (good or bad), then what is the quality of life like in that city?
Vegas has hundreds of songs written about it. It seems everybody has a Vegas tale to tell.There are tales of lament and tales of triumph, but when the jukebox stops, one thing is clear: Vegas is in the eye of the beholder.
Here are the top 25 songs ever written about or inspired by Vegas:
25. Sheryl Crow - 'Leaving Las Vegas' - This song should be higher, but when she went on late night TV and said the song was autobiographical (she didn't write it), it kind of just loses some appeal.
24. Stereophonics - 'Vegas Two Times' - If you like sloppy Welsh spelling bees, this is your jam.
23. Jimmy Ray - 'Goin' to Vegas' - Part genius, part fool, Jimmy Ray of 'Are You Jimmy Ray?' fame infuses a lot of excitement in this anticipatory song about a Vegas vacation.
22. Chumbawamba - 'Jesus in Vegas' - Yes the 'Tubthumping' kids wrote more than just that one song. This one isn't as catchy and seems angry more along the lines of their punk beginnings. According to the song, "Andrew Lloyd Weber is doing the lights."
21. Charlie Clouser - 'Let It Ride' - This is the theme song to NBC's 'Las Vegas' as shown in the UK. It has a Vegas sounding name and since Elvis already has two other songs on the list., this beat out "Little Less Conversation' -- the theme for the US broadcasts of 'Las Vegas.' Had there been a song called, 'Nikki Cox Rocks,' that probably would have made the list over these two.
20. Buck Owens - 'Big in Vegas' - Country legend sings about his aspirations to have his name in lights when he "turns 'em on in Vegas."
19. Hootie & the Blowfish - 'Las Vegas Nights' - It's only fitting that H&TBF has a song about Vegas since the band has the Shady Grove Lounge in Vegas at the Silverton.
18. Who Da Funk - 'Shiny Disco Balls' - This is a great dance song and had it been more about Vegas (or at least had more than three lines), it would have easily been at the top.
17. Geggy Tah - '''Las Vegas With the Lights Out' - This ditty is from the same album that had their big radio/TV commercial song 'Whoever You Are.'
16. Southern Culture on the Skids - '40 Miles to Vegas' - Another of the anticipatory songs about the actual journey to Vegas.
15. Gram Parsons - 'Ooh Las Vegas' - Also covered by the Cowboy Junkies and Emmylou Harris, this is a pretty song about the consequences of Sin City.
14. Nico - 'Vegas' - You either love Nico's voice or hate it and with this instrumentation, the same can be said about this song. I love it.
13. Barenaked Ladies - 'Conventioneers' - Alcohol and off-site work functions? Inhibitions don't stand a chance. This song proves what happens in Vegas, does not necessarily stay in Vegas.
12. The Thrills - 'Your Love Is Like Las Vegas' - I've been saying Vegas is getting too expensive. When an Irish rocker equates lost love to a "city that burnt me good," because he can only afford one weekend, I think I may be on to something. Either that, or he was dating an arsonist or a call girl.
11. Frankie Yankovic - 'Vegas Polka' - If accordions don't turn you're on, maybe you're just dead on the inside
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10. Clubstrophobia - 'Vegas' - Dance song with a fun Vegas video - worth the look.
9. Gomez - 'Las Vegas Dealer' - Nice English rock band making a nice English rock song about lost love that's not entirely clear if Lauren Lee's departure is due to her running off to deal blackjack or if there was a nasty incident with a Las Vegas drug dealer.
8. The B-52s - 'Queen of Las Vegas' - The schtick never grows old. This "Momma, rockin' on the roulette wheel" song is from 1983 and can hold it's own with any beehive-inspired new wave songs of today.
7. Size 14 - 'People Get Really Drunk in Las Vegas' - Their big hit was 'Claire Dane's Poster' but this song has a truthness to it that deserves a Top 10 induction on this list. Nothing like alcohol and no cutoff time to drown the sorrows of a busted romance.
6. Tori Amos - 'Don't Make Me Come to Vegas' - Kind of a different take on the Vegas songs. The beautiful read-headed piano chick is threatening to come to Vegas and yank someone out of bed. Nice.
5. Elvis Presley - 'Viva Las Vegas' - I put this in the top five because I had to otherwise my inbox would fill up with hate mail. Since I didn't put it number one, I think there are some anti-Fletch e-mails in my future, but the heart wants what the heart wants. I have to admit, before living in Vegas, this song was the first song I played to get pumped up for a trip to "bright light city" and I shouldn't rag on it too much because people like the Dead Kennedys and Johnny Ramone have covered it, but I guess it's a case of saturation for me and the fact that there's another song on the "Viva Las Vegas" music soundtrack that is better than this one. Yes, I said it.
4. Tom Waits - 'Straight to the Top (Vegas)' - This is a nice pseudo-swinging affair from "gravel throat."
3. Cocteau Twins - 'Heaven or Las Vegas' - Man, most of the time I don't know what she's singing or even what language she is singing it in, but this song (the whole album really) is transcendent.
2. Elvis Presley - 'Night Life' - Taken from the same soundtrack as "Viva Las Vegas," this song wins because of a universal truth that the album's namesake song doesn't have. Both songs do a great job of capturing the moment. 'Viva Las Vegas' is hyperactive just like the action on a casino floor and 'Night Life' slinks around with sex appeal. It all comes down to one lyric. If you adopt it as a mantra, your time in Vegas, and life, could be more successful: "You can't be a quitter when you're caught up in the glitter of the night life."
1. Dean Martin - Medley 'Drink to Me Only' - 'The Rat Pack Live at the Sands' captured probably the greatest live performances in the history of live performances. Even if you don't like this kind of music or have never heard of Dean Martin (or Maybe Frank or Maybe Sammy), this medley captures the essence of old-school Vegas which is the Vegas our collective consciousness longs for. Interestingly enough, none of the songs cobbled together were Vegas songs. Dean Martin added Vegas bits here and there. 'I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine' gets a non-Disney twist. 'I Love Paris' becomes 'I Love Vegas' and is the rocking part of the medley.
