Deanna Rilling
Contact: 868-4564 • Email
As a self-proclaimed "pseudosocialite" who isn't afraid to rock comfortable shoes or the same outfit twice at Vegas hot spots, Deanna Rilling has been involved in the electronic dance music and local indie rock scene for over 12 years. She typically gets at least one drink spilled on her a night when out and about and usually gets her feet stepped on as well, but it's all in a day's work and she wouldn't have it any other way.
Recent Articles
Seven Nights
This week in your city.
May 17th, 2012
Sun 20: New residency alert! LMFAO’s Sky Blu kicks off some fun in the
Sun with “Who Came to Party!?” at Wet Republic. You may want to stock up on the Forgiven hangover defense for this one. (At MGM Grand, 11 a.m., WetRepublic.com.) Read More »
The Underground Resident
New Marquee DJ Audrey Napoleon wants you to know she’s not some effing production puppet
May 17th, 2012
Ever seen a DJ make love to a mixer? Or darn near take out an innocent bystander with a hair flip? Catch one of Audrey Napoleon’s sets and it’s bound to happen. “I dance around like a fucking maniac, and you will get kicked!” Napoleon laughs. “You might as well take your chances standing behind a donkey.” When she lets the tunes take her over, the L.A.-based DJ/producer’s got more moves than a whole game of chess. She made that evident during her first successful gig at Marquee Dayclub, where she just launched a residency.
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Seven Nights
This week in your city.
May 10th, 2012
DJ/producer/keytarist extraordinaire Joachim Garraud starts his residency at Marquee on Friday, May 11, for all the little space invaders ready for the invasion!
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The Luminary Ones
DJs, producers and vocalists Rebecca & Fiona break into the boys’ club
May 10th, 2012
Rebecca Scheja and Fiona Fitzpatrick are on the path to proving they’re more than just a pair of pretty faces and in-demand vocalists who’ve worked with Kaskade. They’re legit, passionate producers first, and earned support from Tiësto for their track “Bullets.” We chat with the duo working their way up the ranks in the boys’ club of electronic music before their next set at Marquee Dayclub on May 18.
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Local DJs collect Spin Awards, and Insert Coin(s) signs up DJ88
May 10th, 2012
Las Vegas DJs are racking up the platinum records! Granted, it’s in the form of commemorative awards and not based on actual album sales, but it’s still worthy of bragging rights. JackColton.com and The Bank teamed up for the second Spin Awards on April 29, honoring the city’s best in the booth.
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Music Preview
Sounds of Summer
May 10th, 2012
Who better to provide your summer soundtrack than the DJs who make us move? A few of our faves chime in with the tracks they predict will be in heavy rotation this summer. A few of them just might be the next big club banger you won’t be able to escape from come August.
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A Harem of Hits
Remix phenoms Sultan & Ned Shepard give Las Vegas a spin
May 3rd, 2012
Kaskade. Morgan Page. Nadia Ali. Madonna. The duo of Sultan & Ned Shepard might be unfamiliar to newbie clubbers by name, but their remixes of the biggest in the biz have been in heavy rotation in your favorite superstar DJs’ sets for years. Stepping into the Las Vegas spotlight with a residency at XS, Encore Beach Club and Surrender (next at EBC and XS on May 5), we get the deets on the Canada-based twosome.
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Seven Nights
May 3rd, 2012
Fri 4: Oooh, Nadia Ali. Her haunting vocals are some of the most recognizable in dance music, most recently on "Pressure." She’ll sing live alongside Cosmic Gate and EDX at Marquee tonight. (In the Cosmopolitan, 10 p.m., MarqueeLasVegas.com.)
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A Different Face
Nectar Music Festival Saturdays bring Felix Cartal to HRH’s Beachlife shores
May 3rd, 2012
Familiar names abound at clubs up and down the Strip … almost too familiar, with the same headliners bouncing between properties in a week. Thankfully, a fresh face will soon arrive on the scene in the form of Felix Cartal, coming to Las Vegas for Nectar Music Festival Saturdays at Hard Rock Hotel’s Beachlife pool complex. Before his May 12 debut (to be followed by his June 9 appearance at Electric Daisy Carnival), the 25-year-old Canadian let us inside the Cartal cartel.
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Yo-Yo Ma
Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center, April 24
May 3rd, 2012
With fingers flying and facial features articulating along with each note, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma packed the house for Viva Brazil, an evening celebrating the country’s music.
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