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  • Garage rock alive, well in Las Vegas: Three-day festival rings up a jackpot

    10/03/2004 3:32:17 PM PDT · by weegee · 11 replies · 283+ views
    Denver Post ^ | Article Published: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 | By Ricardo Baca - Denver Post Pop Music Critic
    Las Vegas - Though it's drenched in decades-old feedback, the garage music that helped electrify the 1960s is still alive and brighter than the neon in this town that hosts an annual festival of all things '60s rock. The Las Vegas Rockaround, which took over the Gold Coast Casino here last weekend, is a celebration of growling guitars, vicious vocals and songs that rarely top 3 minutes. The music is where punk meets R&B, where soul meets frat-rock, where garage meets surf meets the blues meets rockabilly meets psychedelic. More simply put, it's the reason we have the Hives, the...