The Hellp Review, a Personal Essay, and a Forewarning

By Vlada Stark, Cover Photo By Marsello Mikel It’s 2008 and your mom starts shopping at thrift stores and all your clothes become second-hand eventually. You’re not yet old enough to know why you were taken out of ballet classes, why you moved across the city to live in a rented apartment, or why your […]

Nothing But Thieves Review

By Tharynn Olson October 3rd, 2023: All levels of the iconic House of Blues in Las Vegas were open and filled for Nothing But Thieves. With such a strong stage presence and unity between the band, it’s no wonder that the show was full. Every song has the crowd chanting along. If you ever go […]

Making a Dent in Vegas – Enjoy’s Exploited Tour

By: Vlada Stark August 22nd, 2023 – It was a sweltering, even sticky, late summer night in Vegas. Monsoon season has been upping the dreaded August humidity. Yet, fans still poured into the Oxford 24 theatre for Enjoy’s West Coast tour with opening punk bands Bad Vacation and Dumb Fucks, hailing from Brooklyn and Los […]

The Boy In Las Vegas

By Tharynn Olson August 2nd, 2023: Never before has there been more love, acceptance, and respect between the fans and the artist than there was at Yungblud’s show at Brooklyn Bowl on August 2nd. Yungblud, also known as Dominic Harrison, is a pop-punk artist from the UK who got his start in 2018 when he […]

IBS, Death, and GROBB: TWRP Live at 24 Oxford

To say that TWRP is just a band would be a misleading understatement. To say that TWRP is a synth-pop, funk-rock band from Canada would still be a misleading understatement. TWRP (pronounced “twerp”), over the course of their twelve-year career, has evolved into a universe of storied lore, in-jokes, and never-ending groove. This universe begins […]

The Second Coming of Lady Jesus: Upsahl in New York

May 5th, 2023: In New York, on this beautiful Friday night, Upsahl took the stage at Racket. Upsahl is an artist on the rise. She released her first album, Lady Jesus, in 2021. Upsahl has previously opened for Olivia O’Brien but is now on her first headline tour. Full of color and movement, her concert […]

Back Home: City of the Sun

April 29th, 2023: City of the Sun ended their tour with a memorable night where it all started: New York City. The four-piece, instrumental band got their start in New York back in 2011 and put out their debut EP, Live at the Factory, in 2014. Ten years later, they are back at the end […]

We Bridge Review

The We Bridge Festival held at the Mandalay Bay last weekend was a three-day event consisting of a day expo and a night festival. The intention and mission behind the debut festival/expo was celebrating the growing influence of Asian culture within mainstream American pop culture. The expo served as a bridge between cultures through food, […]

Winter’s Setting Sun: SunCan Music Festival

The ochre sun was setting behind the Vegas Valley mountains while the line outside Ferguson’s Downtown stretched down Fremont. As temperatures have steadily risen with the late arrival of spring, people have become eager for scene events. On April 15th, Black Sheep Booking and Arrlo organized the SunCan music festival. In addition to entertaining the […]

Cowgirl Clue in NYC

March 11th, 2023: Cowgirl Clue’s concert in New York City was the place to be that Saturday night. At Racket, one of my favorite venues located in Chelsea, we were in for a great time. It can be rare to find a good combination with multiple openers, but Cowgirl Clue cracked the code. The night […]