Moksha in Las Vegas, NV on 10/10/14

  • Artist: Moksha
  • Date: 10/10/14
  • Time: 7:00pm
  • Venue: Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
  • City: Las Vegas , NV
  • Address: 3545 Las Vegas Boulevard South Suite 22 Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
  • Venue phone: (702) 862-2695
  • Country: United States
  • Admission: FREE
  • Age restrictions: No Minors
  • Notes: Moksha returns to the Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas for a special FREE show 10/10/14 with special guests JD and the Straight Shot and The Badlands. Doors 7pm Show 8pm Moksha 10pm JD and the Straight Shot “I think this is the best work we’ve ever done,” explains JD & The Straight Shot founder and frontman Jim Dolan of the band’s latest release, Where I’ve Been. “I’m so proud of the music that my band and I have put together. I believe in this album.” Produced by Joe Walsh, Where I’ve Been features several breakthrough singles including “Governor’s Song,” which challenges some of today’s most well-known political figures; “Under That Hood,” a transformative single that tells the tragic story of Trayvon Martin; and “Hard to Find,” which will be featured in the highly-anticipated film, St. Vincent, starring Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy. Dolan’s day gig is Cablevision Systems CEO and Executive Chairman of Madison Square Garden, where he also oversees New York sports teams such as the Knicks and the Rangers. Music is his passion. “I needed something in my life where I felt like I was actually creating,” says Dolan. “Most of what I do as an executive is orchestrate. I don’t actually set up cable and I don’t really shoot hoops,” he says, laughing. “Music is something I’ve played since I was a kid. It’s me purely expressing myself.” JD & The Straight Shot’s creative nucleus is Dolan and guitarist Marc Copely (B.B. King), who pen all the band’s music and lyrics. Instrumentally indispensable is guitarist Aidan Dolan; keyboardist Brian Mitchell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm); and drummer Joe Magistro (The Black Crowes). Also part of the band are some of pop music’s finest session players, bassist Zev Katz (Aretha Franklin, Elton John), and violinist Erin Slaver (Rod Stewart, Trace Adkins, Martina McBride). Dolan started JD & The Straight Shot in 2000. The band has recorded four previous albums: Midnight Run (2012), Can’t Make Tears (2011), Right On Time (2008), and Nothing To Hide (2005) – as well as an EP, Daily News Blues (2010). The band’s style is steeped in the quiet fire of Americana, with distinctive elements of the blues and mystical, rustic, New Orleans-flavored roots music – topped off with a dash of the classic rock of Dolan’s youth. “I grew up on bands like the Allman Brothers,” says Dolan. “We played those records until the grooves wore right off of them.” JD & The Straight Shot has been covered by The New York Times, Billboard, and New York Magazine, among other publications, and performed on “Good Day New York.” Their song “Can’t Make Tears” is the theme song for AMC’s TV show Hell on Wheels, and their music has been featured in many films, including the critically acclaimed August: Osage County. The group has opened for the Eagles on several tours, including the current “History of the Eagles” tour, the “Summer 2010” tour, and the band’s stadium tour with the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban. JD & The Straight Shot has also opened up for both Joe Walsh and Don Henley’s solo tours, the James Gang reunion tour, and performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Austin City Limits. The Badlands The Badlands are the result of the last year spent in a desert dust bowl looming with draught of water and roots music. Busking and playing gigs around town, The Badlands have begun to make a name in the local scene and are expecting to release their new EP on the night of their show at Brooklyn Bowl. At their house in Downtown Las Vegas, they have spent days and nights recording and writing the most current chapter of songs. Listening artists like Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt and a vast collection of folk and roots music, the Badlands have learned to make of music what really moves their soul. “We are connected to the past in a way that keeps us going forward” says guitarist Anthony Divincenzo. The Badlands is a drummer-less acoustic foursome consisting of Anthony DiVincenzo playing acoustic rhythm guitar, Alvaro Egas on lead acoustic guitar and Banjo, Steven Tankersley bass guitar and Sara Jean Worrell belts her heart out on the vocals. They feel they have a great opportunity to show their music thanks to the roots revival of the last few years, and a new generation of rustic, heart and soul music, a mix of traditional music and uncharted territory. The Badlands feel they are powered by passion, ripened by hard work, they don’t know where it comes from, but they got a good idea where it’s going. They are just believers trying to remind people how goddamn good it feels to be turned on by a real creative imagination.
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