The Killers frontman brought his country- and Americana-minded solo album “Thrasher” home to a crowd eager for both the songs and the stories behind them. Over an hour and 40 minutes, he traced a route through Henderson, small-town Utah, the Las Vegas…
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Foo Fighters celebrate the end of their North American tour with a sprawling nearly 3-hour show in Las Vegas
Saturday night at Allegiant Stadium, the final stop on the North American leg of the band’s “Take Cover Tour,” Dave Grohl and his five bandmates put on a two-hour, 50-minute, 25-song rock ’n’ roll marathon: loud, loose, funny, occasionally sentimental…
Creators behind latest ‘The Wizard of Oz at Sphere’ ignore Auntie Em and let their imaginations run wild
The Las Vegas venue’s newly expanded 4D version of “The Wizard of Oz at Sphere” piles fresh spectacle onto a movie that already had plenty of it: animatronic winged monkeys swooping above the audience, scented apples dropping from the ceiling, bursts …
Ryan Seacrest’s promise comes true at iHeartRadio Music Festival: Anything can happen
Over Friday and Saturday nights at T-Mobile Arena, the annual festival in Las Vegas made a virtue of its whiplash: Kenny Chesney in a straw cowboy hat tossing kisses to the crowd; Weezer turning “Beverly Hills” into a Vegas anthem; Cardi B bringing a …
Old Dominion hits the Vegas sweet spot: Familiar songs, feathered spectacle and 16 showgirls
Old Dominion’s greatest asset is its ability to make even a 7,000-seat theater feel like a group singalong among friends. Friday’s show added just enough sequins, feathers and theatrical scale to meet the occasion without obscuring the songs that carr…