July 6, 2022: A very warm Wednesday evening brought neoclassical melodic death/thrashers EXMORTUS to The Usual Place in Downtown Las Vegas. Exmortus (Whittier, CA) is currently in the middle of their West Coast tour with support from Portland, OR based SILVER TALON; and Oakland, CA based HATRIOT. On this date ...

Our friend John Gist strikes again! We ended August with three absolutely killer California rock bands at one of our favorite venues, Count's Vamp'd. Great Electric Quest (San Diego); Void Vator (Los Angeles); and HAUNT (Fresno). If there's anything we've come to know about our friend John, he's got quite ...

Earshot returned to Las Vegas for the first time since (from our research) 2004. Fifteen years is a long time, but the crowd at Count's Vamp'd was ready to welcome them back with open arms. The Nocturnal Affair. Opening up for Earshot were local favorites The Nocturnal Affair. They played ...

Planet Desert Rock v1 Las Vegas, Nevada November 29, 2018 - December 1, 2018 Last November Las Vegas’ own John Gist, put on one of his most successful showcases that we’ve seen. The Planet Desert Rock festival featured some amazing underrated rock bands from all over the place. This festival ...

Taking Dawn... 7th Son.. I can’t point my finger precisely on when or by whom I was introduced to 7th Son. It might have been Ronnell who went on to form Babilos, my neighbor Patrick, or the shit ton of 7th Son shirts worn by people in my MySpace friends ...