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  • Brooklyn Bowl Opens in Vegas: Lineup Announced

    Bowling alley-rock club Brooklyn Bowl has some exciting announcements to share with music lovers. The club has recently announced the music calendar for its Las Vegas venue, which will be opening on March 8. The bowling alley club’s show headliners includes initial schedule includes Phil & Friends, the Avett Brothers and Steve Winwood.

    The Vegas location marks the third “Brooklyn Bowl” club right after the second location opened on Jan. 16, inside the O2 Arena complex.

    But what’s so different about the Brooklyn Bowl than other music clubs? Well, aside from the bowling, the musical acts are structured to resemble festival lineups bringing a new vibe to the club scene.

    “In April when Phil Lesh plays, it’s going to go Phil Lesh at 9 o’clock, Trombone Shorty’s going to play a full show at one in the morning and Robert Randolph’s going to do gospel till dawn,” says co-owner and bowl founder Peter Shapiro.

    “It’s like a festival lineup in a club. I don’t think that’s got precedent, to be honest. I don’t know when that’s been done. I don’t know when there have been three bands doing full sets in a club,” he said.

    Browse through some of the acts you can catch at the Brooklyn Bowl below.

    March 8-9 – Bowlive featuring Soulive with special guests including George Porter
    March 14 -The Roots
    March 15-16 – Elvis Costello and The Roots
    March 19 – Brett Dennen
    March 20-22- Cake
    March 20-22 – Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe (late)
    March 23- Local Natives
    March 26-29, April 2-5, 9-12 – Galactic (late)
    March 29-30- Lettuce
    April 5-6, 19-20 – Robert Randolph & the Family Band (late and brunch)
    April 10- Bonobo
    April 12- Big Gigantic
    April 14- The Naked and Famous / The 1975, with the White Lies
    April 15- The Green
    April 16-19 – Trombone Shorty (late)
    April 17 – Chance the Rapper
    April 18-20 – Phil Lesh & Friends
    April 20- The Infamous Stringdusters (late)
    April 24-26 – O.A.R.
    April 25-26, May 2-3 – Gogol Bordello (late)
    May 1-3 – Primus
    May 5- Twenty One Pilots
    May 8-10- Jane’s Addiction performing “Nothing’s Shocking”
    May 22-25- Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk & Soul Rebels Brass Band
    May 29-31-Tedeschi Trucks Band
    June 5- Black Label Society
    June 10-11 – Thievery Corporation
    June 13-14- Steve Winwood
    August 7- Chromeo
    August 29-31- The Avett Brothers

    The original Brooklyn location in Williamsburg was opened in 2009.

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  • Newport Folk Festival Returns To Much Fanfare

    The summer landscape is littered with music festivals that draw tens of thousands of attendees to see what are often stellar band line-ups. In the whirlwind of all of these festivals, which include heavy weights such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and Forecastle Festival, one of the founding fathers of the scene is often overlooked.

    The Newport Music Festival, which has roots dating back to the original festival back in 1959, kicked off Friday in Rhode Island. Tickets for the fest sold out in record time this year, and attendance is estimated to be at 10,000 a day. Not too shabby for a festival that is almost old enough to qualify for AARP benefits.

    This year’s lineup boasts a number of major acts including Beck, The Avett Brothers, Jim James, Old Crow Medicine Show, and The Lumineers, among other.

    Drawing such big names should come as no surprise for a festival that historically has drawn titans of the music world including Pete Seeger, who is a co-founder, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan, whose infamous electric set in 1965 angered attendees.

    While the festival nearly fizzled out in the 1960s, it appears that there is no stopping it now. In fact, organizers are planning to expand. Starting next year they hope to add a full third day by expanding the festival’s opening acts on Friday.

    With that expansion Newport Folk might take its rightful place among the major festivals and become another hot summer destination for music fans.