MUSIC: Panic at the Disco debuts new touring lineup at The Joint

  Maybe they should have kept the exclamation point in their name after all.
  Seriously, anything to stir up a little excitement would be good for Panic at the Disco, who played their first Vegas show with their new touring lineup Friday night at The Joint, where they opened for No Doubt, who pretty much played the exact same set that they did when they kicked of their current tour at Tiger Jam at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in May.
  Granted, it wasn’t Panic’s show and of course the crowd was there primarily for the headliners, but it was still a little surprising to see the band get a polite but hardly impassioned response from the near-sold-out audience despite a solid showing.
  Maybe their lack of local love is attributable to the fact that Panic didn’t play much here en route to becoming a platinum selling act, famously playing their first show at The Alley after they got a record deal.
  Either way, the band certainly wasn’t treated like hometown heroes at The Joint, where they played loose, lively versions of hits such as  “Nine in the Afternoon” and “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies,” joined by shaggy-haired guitarist Ian Crawford and bassist Dallon Weekes.
  Frontman Brendon Urie seemed to be in particularly good spirits by the end of the band’s set, drinking between songs, making references to psychedelics and coming across as the life of party — really, he was the only life that this particular party had to speak of.