Deanna Rilling
Calendar Editor/Nightlife Writer/Concert Coordinator
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As a self-proclaimed "pseudosocialite" who isn't afraid to rock comfortable shoes or the same outfit twice at Vegas hot spots, Deanna Rilling has been involved in the electronic dance music and local indie rock scene for over 12 years. She typically gets at least one drink spilled on her a night when out and about and usually gets her feet stepped on as well, but it's all in a day's work and she wouldn't have it any other way.
Recent Articles
Seven Nights
Your city after dark
February 14th, 2013
“Random thoughts for Valentine’s Day: Today is a holiday invented by greeting-card companies to make people feel like crap.” Whether or not you concur with that sentiment from the opening of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, we can probably all agree that taking your date to a slammed nightclub isn’t as romantic as a fancy dinner and flowers—those never go out of style. But one party that’ll make it easiest for you to go from dance floor to pants-on-the-floor is Collective Zoo’s second annual Love & Lust Sleepover.
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Music
CD Reviews
Clockwork, Surge EP; Zeds Dead, Hot Sauce EP; Late Night Alumni, The Beat Becomes a Sound
February 7th, 2013
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The Executioner
Pack the earplugs—Canada’s Excision brings the bass to melt your face
February 7th, 2013
You may want to invest in those big ol’ earmuff headphones folks who work around airplanes wear, because 100,000 watts of sound is coming to rattle your soul. Bass-music master Excision is bringing his new Execution Tour to Las Vegas’ House of Blues for his first solo headlining show. He’s also got a grip of subwoofers and an insane true-3-D video-mapping stage experience that will blow your minds as much as your eardrums. Vegas Seven geeked out on all the tech specs with Excision before the February 15 show.
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Scamming the Grammys
The curious case of how one talentless musician pulled a Jethro Tull and got an award nod—and what we can do to stop the madness
February 7th, 2013
When the Grammy committee announced the 2013 nominees for Best Dance Recording, there were the usual suspects who churned out massive commercial club-bangers: Avicii’s “Levels,” which was not only my pick for the most overplayed club song of 2012, but licensed in car and cruise commercials. Also nominated were Calvin Harris’ “Let’s Go,” “Bangarang” by three-time Grammy winner Skrillex, and “Don’t You Worry Child” by Swedish House Mafia. Rounding out the category? Al Walser with “I Can’t Live Without You.”
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Seven Nights
February 7th, 2013
Soccer doesn’t really woo the States; maybe rugby can! The USA Sevens rugby team (no affiliation to this magazine, but a snappy name nonetheless) will kick off tournament week with opening ceremonies on Fremont Street starting at 6:30 p.m. with tunes by Light Group’s resident DJs. Keep the team spirit going with official after-parties at Haze on Friday (In Aria, 10 p.m.), 1 Oak on Saturday (In The Mirage, 10 p.m.) and The Bank on Sunday (In Bellagio, 10 p.m., LightGroup.com.)
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Seven Nights
Your city after dark
January 31st, 2013
Time to get artsy! First Friday is upon us again, but what really caught our eye this month (and got our inner-child super-stoked) is the massive Hop-Scotch Party! The big blue Delivering Happiness bus will lead the charge as attendees of all ages are welcome to navigate through multiple courses, win prizes and boost their happiness levels till 10 p.m. (At Casino Center Blvd. between Colorado Ave. and Imperial Ave., 5 p.m., FirstFridayLasVegas.com.) Dirty South is making moves. The multi-Grammy nominee has signed on for another Las Vegas residency, this time joining the XS roster with his first gig there tonight. (In Encore, 11 p.m., XSLasVegas.com.)
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Dance Hall Monitor
Major Lazer declares musical liberation with 1 Oak residency
January 31st, 2013
Laaaasers. You can’t have a Las Vegas nightclub without a grip of ’em. Subsequently, 1 Oak has added the most major one to its roster with Wes Pentz (also familiar to electronic fans as Diplo), Walshy Fire and Jillionaire. Collectively they’re known by their single cartoon avatar, Major Lazer, a fictitious Jamaican renegade who was outfitted with prosthetic lasers after losing his arm in the Zombie War of the ’80s.
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‘Joyenergizer’
Netherlander Sander van Doorn returns to his club-record roots
January 31st, 2013
Between the coast-to-coast festivals and the numerous club sets, keeping track of the number of times we’ve seen Sander van Doorn is futile at this point. One indelible image is the pure happiness van Doorn seems to exude while playing for any crowd, his smile beaming all the way to the partiers in the back.
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Scotty Boy, Red team with Lit singer for Las Vegas video
January 31st, 2013
Las Vegas has become a bucket-list location for music videos. But the end result is always better when someone has a connection to the city, such as Las Vegas-based DJ Scotty Boy. Along with his Houston producer, DJ Red, they’ve been making quite a few blips on the EDM radar, even more so now after teaming up with singer A. Jay Popoff of the band Lit for “Know Your Name Tonight.”
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Julie Kamiyama
Queen Electric
January 24th, 2013
Which is why Better Than New has offered, since 2011, something for the casual partyer putting together an outfit for a neon nightclub soirée, as well as those needing help with an Electric Daisy Carnival costume idea. But it also provides a comfortable living-room-vibe area where members of the EDM community can hang out and chat.
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