Pitchfork

Every autumn since 2005, the Vegoose Festival has helped make Las Vegas, Nevada a safer place for music-minded folk who'd rather toss their dollars at awesome bands than slot machines, strippers, and bloodthirsty white tigers. Every year until this one, that is.

According to a Billboard.com report, Vegoose will not return in 2008. "We're not going to do Vegoose this year," a festival organizer is quoted as saying. "We're not saying it's killed, it's just not going to happen in 2008."

The organizer suggests that dwindling profits in recent years most likely tanked this year's proposed event, as 2007's festivities only brought in about half the attendees and half the revenue as the inaugural 2005 event-- this despite the presence of Daft Punk in 2007.

"The first year we were actually really successful, the second and third years we weren't as much so," the Vegoose rep told Billboard.com "Any time you do a show it has its own unique challenges. We're going to continue to be aggressive and try things, and some will be huge successes and other things may not be."

While Vegoose may have vamoosed this year, Bonnaroo 2008-- put on by the same promoters, Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment-- is still very much on.