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Crit featured on Association of Alternative Newsweeklies website!

As a former alt-weekly writer, editor and music critic, Andrew Kiraly drew on his many years of (often crazy) experience in everything from rock clubs to casino lounges. He’s highlighted today on the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies website as part of a summer series on books penned by current and former alt-weekly scribes. Read the full story here:

Do you have a favorite Blue Vegas chapter? Well the band Attack Ships On Fire certainly do. This punk rock band out of Portland, Oregon recently released a new song entitled Clam Daddy, inspired by it’s namesake chapter in Blue Vegas.

Harboring an affinity for intense, angry songs with a sense of humor, Attach Ships on Fire are self-described as having “an impressively sarcastic wit, the attitude is clear: punk rock is NOT a fashion show.”

ASOF is returning this year to the Double Down Saloon in Las Vegas for RollerCon 2010, where they will perform the song live for the first time. The event will take place the night of July 31st. Copies of Blue Vegas will also be on hand at the Double Down, and author P Moss will sign copies of his debut title from midnight – 3AM.

Listen to the song here.
More information on the band here.

Richard Abowitz
Los Angeles Times ~ 2/28/10

“Despite getting frequent mentions in tourist guides and routinely topping out locals’ best-of polls, the Double Down Saloon is the Vegas institution that most appears to belong in another, cooler city than Las Vegas. With a scruffy pool table and a tiny stage, its character (and jukebox) is closer to New York’s late CBGB than an ultra lounge.

The décor reflects the owner, and few who know him will be surprised that P Moss has written a collection of short stories in his free time. With “Blue Vegas” in a new imprint from alternative weekly City Life, Moss is making his fiction debut at age 58…”

Read the full article here.