3121 and 3121 Jazz Cuisine opens Nov. 10, 2006 at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino

Live entertainment and event schedule:

Wednesdays:

Various artists, TBA, by friends of Prince

Doors open at 10 pm, tickets start at $31.21

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CD: Cedric Gervais, Experiment (Ultra Records, July 11, 2006)

At the early age of 15, Cedric Gervais played his first show–an intimate, subdued 3,000-person rave in the south of France. After that he found himself working in Paris at Queen, then at Crowbar in Miami. In 2004, he transfered to Club Space, where he, as resident DJ, has been fortunate enough to share the stage with world-famous DJs such as Sander Kleinenberg, Roger Sanchez and Deep Dish.

His years of hard work continue to pay off and Gervais has made headway as not just as a DJ but also as a producer. Over the years he has worked for names like Duran Duran, Dirty Vegas and Lenny Kravitz, and produced his own original music, including his new debut CD, Experiment.

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DVD: Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows (Image Entertainment, Nov. 21, 2006)

Elvis Presley. The king of rock ‘n’ roll. The man who changed the face of music. And it was on the Ed Sullivan Show that Elvis thrilled little girls and scared parents with his sexy gyrations. Fifty years after his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, Image Entertainment has released a three-disc special edition DVD, which contains three Ed Sullivan Shows, on which Elivs performs massive hits like “Love Me Tender,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Hound Dog,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Peace In the Valley” and “Love Me.”

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CD: A Static Lullaby, A Static Lullaby (Fearless Records, 2006)

Unless you’re a hardcore post-hardcore music lover, it all sounds pretty much the same. The Used, My Chemical Romance and hundreds, nay, thousands of other bands–including A Static Lullaby–all have that heavy rock sound and lyrics about how it’s not fair that life isn’t fair.

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CD: Primus, They Can’t All Be Zingers (Interscope, Oct. 17, 2006)

DVD: Primus, Blame It On the Fish (Frizzle Fry Inc., Oct. 17, 2006)

The CD title is They Can’t All Be Zingers, but this newly released Primus compilation is nothing but the band’s best music from their brightest albums. Sixteen years ago, Les Claypool, one of the most important bass players of the ’90s, along with guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander, put a spin on music that had never been heard before and has never been replicated. Primus’s seriously amazing bass, drum and guitar riffs blew the minds of skaters and Betties everywhere–and the band’s sense of humor was so far in left field it even freaked the freaks a little. Damn, what band had written songs about the DMV, fishing and spaghetti westerns (all on the same album) before Primus? But the best thing was is that the music kept coming, and new CDs were released every other year! With each recording Primus lovers wondered if this album would be as good as the last. Crazy, but the funk just kept getting better and better and the Primus fan base continued to grow. (more…)

Event: Vegoose, October 28 and 29, 2006, Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, NV

Dozens of live performances took place Saturday and Sunday on three stages at Vegoose in Las Vegas. But for me, just making my way into the stadium was a chore. There were so many distractions that kept me occupied hour after hour. As a former psuedo-hippy, I have always enjoy the pre-show events at shows like Lollopalooza and Warped Tour. I love the sights and smells of vendors that bombard kids of all ages with knick knacks, food, clothing, beverages, and it turned out the Vegoose was more like a Dead show with vendors setting up (free) booths in the parking lot, selling everything from pipes to tie-dyed shirts to veggie stir fry and everything (everything!!) in between. I ended up buying a swirling glass bead pendant from an old hippie, a grilled cheese sandwich spiced with parsley, sage, rosemany and thyme from an even older hippie and party paraphernalia from many young, hip cats. I even came away from this event with a handful of new friends–a few great guys who brought with them from LA 5,000 jello shots, left with probably 3,000 of them, crashed at our pad and talked politics until 4 am and kept us entertained (and filled with Jello and vodka) both days.

I would have been happy to see more bands, as that was the point of the event, but I found myself very upset at the no re-entry rule. It didn’t used to be that way. You could come and go whenever you felt like it, and it made the day-long events bareable. However, consumerism has taken over, and vendors want to force you to eat their expensive burritos and $8 Bud Lights, so once you’re in you’re in for the long haul. So once you’re in you can’t come out, and damned if I was going to spend 12 hours in there ….

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