The news that Carlos Santana will perform three nights a week at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas beginning at the end of May is not actually an April Fool’s joke, despite that fact that it has the not-all-that-funny trademarks that pranks celebrating this horrible day tend to bear. I was really on the fence when the story had a quote from Carlos saying “I put in the contract that we will need 20 to 30 minutes in the middle of the set to do a back flip into the unknown,” but apparently Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits is all too real. (I’m sure vocalists Tony Lindsay and Tommy Anthony have fine voices, but can either replicate the dulcet tones of Rob Thomas? I, for one, am dubious.) Who should follow Santana to Sin City, where they can play to audiences of degenerate gamblers and drunks on vacation? MORE »
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Who Will Follow Celine Dion And Carlos Santana To Las Vegas?
A Tribute To The Greatest Tribute Act In Existence
I took a brief vacation to Las Vegas last weekend, and I couldn’t go the entire day without a wholehearted endorsement of Purple Reign, which bills itself as “THE Prince Tribute Show.” It’s impossible to put into words how great these guys are, and sadly YouTube is a bit of a letdown with one poorly shot video that doesn’t even merit being embedded here. MORE »
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Hey Internet: Thanks For Nothing
The Time played fifteen shows in Las Vegas over the course of the summer, following their reunion at the Grammys, and that wasn’t something worth letting me know about, Internet? MORE »
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The Worst Song In The World Gets A Glitzy Makeover
As the Fourth of July approaches, radio stations around the country prepare to terrorize me by playing Don McLean’s “American Pie”, which is supposed to make me feel really psyched about the United States for reasons I can’t quite identify. Whether in its truncated single form or its full eight-minutes-plus of bizarrely metaphored hippie nostalgia flory, “American Pie” is easily my least favorite song of all time. Which may be why I never considered ways it could be improved… like a synchronized light show! MORE »
