Is it just us, or does Lemmy’s mole look angrier than normal? (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
Lemmy, who, as Steve Buscemi knows, is God, brought Motorhead to the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay last night to pair with the Misfits for the best 1981 metal/punk show that 2008 could buy.
Lemmy left his fascist regalia at home — but he’s totally right about the bad guys always having the best uniforms. The Empire completely had it all over the Rebels.
After the show, Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee made his way to LAX inside Luxor where he and his guests drank Amstel Light and, naturally, shots of Jack Daniels. We’d be crushed if it were anything else.
Keeping it real — y sleepy.(Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)
Mos Def kept it going ’til the wee hours with a 2 a.m. show Saturday at the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay. Don’t fret: The concert wasn’t slated to start until late. (Something about Mos busy fighting aliens. Or robots. Or something.) He didn’t even have a malfunctioning spaceship to blame.
Mos Def rocks the mic for a late-night show at the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay tonight, taking the stage at midnight, delivering as much substantial, thoughtful hip-hop — and “Ms. Fat Booty” — that you can handle. He’ll go on with Whosane and Anwar who, we’re not positive, but we think fought together in the Six-Day War.
Also playing an earlier show at the House of Blues is emo outfit Tokio Hotel at 7 p.m.
Arizona sextet Scary Kids Scaring Kids headline at House of Blues tonight inside Mandalay Bay with special guests Finch with doors at 5 p.m. It’s hard to listen to Scary Kids without thinking of the twin-guitar attack of K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton, so if you can’t make the show, just put on your copy of Screaming for Vengeance and pretend Rob Halford is doing more indie-fied harmonies. Click for more words and pictures »
No Viking helmet? This isn’t Flav! It’s an impostor! (Scott Harrison | Retna)
Flavor Flav made an appearance at the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay Saturday night to introduce soul singer Lyfe Jennings. That’s all well and good, but we hope the crowd appreciated Flav for his greatest accomplishment to date. It’s not the 196 some-odd kids he has, not the groundbreaking work with Public Enemy, not even the trainwrecktastic romance with Brigitte Nielsen.
We hope he heard roars of approval for the groundwork he laid on Flavor of Love that prepared the world for the epic I Love Money, a show quite possibly poised to render all other television programming obsolete. If watching Speedo-stuffing Mr. Boston clock professional dominatrix Nibblz in the head with a pugil stick, knocking her off a bed suspended over the water, before she’s soundly mocked by a skinny, gangster wannabe third-rate rapper from a second-rate reality show isn’t exactly what the inventors of television had when they first put some tubes behind a screen in a box, then we don’t know why they even bothered to get up in the morning and head on down to the lab.
Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness headlines the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay tonight at 8 p.m. The show was put together pretty quickly when HoB sent out a distress call that its reserves of gravelly voiced musicians were running desperately low. Ness is a humanitarian first and a musician second. Special guests the Horton Brothers join the fray. Waiting for the full-on Social D show? Read on for your options. At 10 p.m. unless noted. Click for more words and pictures »
We honestly have no idea if Erykah Badu is still doing the whole gigantic headwrap thing, but we sincerely hope so. We are squarely pro-ridiculous headgear here. You can find out for yourself tonight at the House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay when Badu takes the stage at 8 p.m. The official afterparty for the show follows at LAX inside Luxor. The important question, though, is: Did that dude ever call Tyrone? Click for more words and pictures »
FACT: Colin Powell wrote “Kentucky Rain” for Elvis.
Colin Powell, most celebrated for once serving briefly in the same Army unit as Elvis Presley, and perhaps also for some of his lesser-known accomplishments as Secretary of State, dined with wife Alma at Trattoria del Lupo inside Mandalay Bay last night. The couple had lasagna, pasta, wine and a sorbet for dessert, and staff said they were tremendously kind. See? Not only will rolling with the King infuse you with the essence of rock ‘n’ roll, but it teaches you good manners, too.
One of these men has a briefcase full of guts. (Via AdultSwim.com)
If, like us, you love only two things in life — metal and cartoons — you’re already familiar with Metalocalypse. If, unlike us, you lead a rich, robust existence full of the joie de vivre that is life’s multi-hued tapestry of joy, you probably aren’t familiar with the most brutal show on television.
Sucker.
You may have things like “fun” and “happiness,” but you’ll never know the steely cold comfort that only Slayer can provide. Saturday night at House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay, though, is your chance to finally hang with the cool kids when series creator Brendan Small brings Dethklok — Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Toki Wartooth, William Murderface, Pickles and Nathan Explosion — to the stage in all its 2D, twin-guitar glory for the animated ne plus ultra of loud, angry tribute/satire nerdmetal. Vets Chimaira and Soilent Green open. Doors are at 6 p.m.
Daniel Tosh delivers rapid-fire, black-hearted comedy with a smile tonight at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay with Jasper Redd at 8 p.m, but if you’re not into that sort of thing you can probably while away a few hours amusing yourself with your Dane Cook CDs, Gallagher videotapes or a nice shiny quarter taped to a string that the neighborhood kids swing around to get your attention while they sing-song derogatory chants at you. We’re pretty sure you don’t want that. If you insist on something else, though, you have a few choices. Click for more words and pictures »
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