When Communities Prevail: Elevated Undergrounds Album Release Show at Soulbelly

By Savino Rojas The Vegas music scene has historically waxed and waned, regularly approaching but never meeting the strength needed to be reliable and ongoing (besides the always-present hardcore scene). For several years this has been the case, however, the recent surge of talent has proven to have some much-needed staying power. That talent and […]

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 […]

Scrutiny, Alienation, and Jay-Z: An Interview with Jacodie Big Mountain

By Evelyn Flores & Erika Nunez, Photos By Gabrielle Davila Ortiz “Weed, struggle, and riffs,” says Jacodie of Scrutiny when asked to describe the band’s music in three words. No explanation necessary. Scrutiny’s no-skip, self-titled EP was released on Spotify last year on 9/11, the name inspired by the band’s surrounding environment when they formed […]

Close Combat Forever: A Conversation with John Vanacore

By: Erika Nunez, Photos: Gaby Davila Ortiz On Monday night, local hardcore band, Close Combat, held their last show alongside Jivebomb, End It, and Angel Du$t. The sold-out show had Eagle Aerie Hall packed, the venue’s air thick from the late-spring heat. A few weeks earlier, we spoke to John Vanacore (musician, booker, graphic designer, […]

A Gauzey Night at Eagle Aerie Hall

On President’s Day night, Slow Crush made their stop in Vegas while on tour with Trauma Ray and Death Bells with a special opening by Las Vegas skramz band, Roman Candle. Eagle Aerie Hall was filled with shoegazers who had made the drive down to locally named “Hendertucky” for a gauzy reverbed dreamscape show. Roman […]

Heaven is Here | CANDY in Las Vegas

Last Tuesday, CANDY made their way to Post 8 in Vegas for a stop on their tour with Vein, Regulate, and Living Weapon. This is their second tour after releasing their sophomore full-length album ‘Heaven Is Here’ with Relapse Records. CANDY, made up of Zak Quiram on vocals, Michael Quick and Andrew Stark on guitar, […]

Penguin Slide – ANTI-VISION

“Welcome back, failure, you’re my friend. Starting over fresh, just gonna fuck it up again,” opens Las Vegas astronaut rock band Anti-Visions in their latest single ‘Penguin Slide.’ The song was mixed, mastered, recorded, and engineered by Cody Leavitt at Asteroid M Records. On the single, Anti-Vision shared that it’s, “[b]een a real struggle navigating […]