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Music The Raveonettes at Wasted Space

September 3, 2009 - 7:17 pm

Set in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is Moto-x legend Carey Hart’s club, Wasted Space. Its a small club with a dive bar feel. However, there is nothing cut rate about it. The luxurious leather booths and clever original paintings on the walls and ceiling define it as the kind of place where the grown-up punk rock crowd wants to hang out. My absolute favorite part of this club is that you can have a seat without the need to buy a bottle at 5x the cost for the privilege of sitting there. Its nearly the perfect place to see a killer band like the Raveonettes.

The Raveonettes – Last Dance

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Music The Raveonettes Rave On

by Dustin Downing and Ryan Patrick Hooper

August 13, 2009 - 11:47 am

A very strange thing happened on Sunday afternoon happened when The Raveonettes took the stage. Not only did those gigantic dragonflies make a matinee appearance, swirling over the heads of sweat-drenched patrons and frightening the small ones, but also as the band began to perform, a surplus of sexuality spilled into the crowd. Perhaps it was the two-piece Raveonettes (consisting of Danish guitarists Sune Rose Wagne and Sharin Foo) transformed into a magnetic five-piece, complete with a minimalist drummer simply banging upon a stand-alone tom and snare. Perhaps it was the tension of a weekend spent watching gorgeous patrons, both vivaciously female and chiseled male, fondle and eye-fuck each other until someone went numb and blind.

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