Nightlife
Gossip
Even the Backstreet Boys Are in Their 30s
January 31st, 2013
One more thing to remind you that you’re soon to be in the hip-replacement set: Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys just turned 33. He celebrated January 26 with girlfriend, Lauren Kitt, and his sister, Angel, at Tao, where he talked about how the new Backstreet album would have a more mature sound. Read more »
Gossip
All-Star Drum Squad Takes Over Vinyl
January 31st, 2013
We live in a golden age of banging on random stuff—Recycled Percussion, Blue Man Group, Chris Brown if someone hands him a couple of drumsticks and puts him in a room with Frank Ocean and/or Rihanna. So when the Street Drum Corps took their percussion act to Vinyl, it just seemed au courant. Read more »
Gossip
Statham, J-Lo Bring Parker Premiere to P-Ho
January 31st, 2013
If there’s one thing Jason Statham loves, it’s rifling out gravelly voiced quip after gravelly voiced quip in mid-tier action movies. If there are two things Jason Statham loves, it’s that whole quip thing and premiering those flicks at Planet Hollywood. Read more »
DJ Profile
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. Read more »
Night-Lites
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.” Read more »
DJ Profile
‘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. Read more »
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.) Read more »
The Shapeshifter
From nightclub manager to turntablist to bootlegger artist, Jim Saviano is DJ Savi
January 24th, 2013
If anyone should win an award for having the most unexpected career path it’s Jim Saviano. This Midwestern altar boy grew up to become the opening manager of Hyde in Hollywood—a job that thrust him into a scene where the Olsen twins, DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Kanye and Jay-Z were regulars, and where it was commonplace for Britney Spears to shut down Sunset Boulevard out front. Read more »
Profile
Las Vegas Prepares to See the Light
An exclusive first look at the Light Group and Cirque du Soleil’s next nightlife collaboration
January 24th, 2013
Stepping into what will soon be Light, one finds a nightclub transformed—and not just the architectural aesthetics of the gutted former Rumjungle space. Here, the vibrancy of partner Cirque du Soleil will fill the space with a party set to the soundtrack of the Light Group’s top electronic-music talent. Light music/marketing director Amy Thomson (also known in the electronic-dance-music world as manager to Swedish House Mafia, among other notables) shed some, well, light on what clubgoers can expect when the megaclub that started it all for Light Group in Las Vegas is re-imagined this spring in Mandalay Bay. Read more »
Seven Nights
Your city after dark
January 24th, 2013
Free Pop Rocks for everyone? Yes, please! Flashback to childhood, only this time instead of mixing it with soda, there’s a Pop Rocks and Champagne chugging contest at the Pop Rocks & Pajamas party. Wearing your jammies gets you free admission, but remember it’s still cold outside, so choose fleece footies over the usual nearly nude club-wear while DJs The BreadMan Lives, KC Ray, Vegas Banger, Zo and more spin. (At Beauty Bar, 9:30 p.m., Facebook.com/LooseCannonPromotions.) Read more »
