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✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Descendents w/Radkey/Rehasher It’s been more than two decades since Descendents declared that Everything Sucks, and the ‘80s SoCal punk outfit is flipping the script on a 2017 Orlando show by bringing its latest album — Hypercaffium Spazzinate — to Jannus Live. CL spoke with singer Milo Aukerman — whose cartoon rendering famously serves as the band’s logo — from his home in Delaware, and you can read more via cltampa.com/music before Radkey (“Dark Makeup”) and Rehasher (featuring Less Than Jake’s Roger Lima) open the show. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
Sounds@620 Music Series w/James Suggs and Friends James Suggs is a busy horn blower. He’s a regular at Indie St. Pete’s Sunday Jazz series and on Thursday the trumpeter is playing the cozy Studio@620 space. It might be easy for some to take busy, ubiquitous musicians like Suggs (a Youngstown State grad who started playing trumpet at age 9) for granted, but that doesn’t mean it’s OK. (Studio@620, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Mad Clown w/San E Two of Korea’s biggest pop stars are set to touch down in Cigar City. Bringing their talents to the United States for the first time with the “We Want You” tour, Mad Clown and San E will pull from their Sour Grapes collaboration and work through individual hits as well. The Orpheum stop is just one date on one of the longest U.S. tours from a Korean act ever, so show up to be a part of history. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO —RF
DYNASTY'S DESTINTY
Tampa hip-hop star shoots west to Los Angeles
✔️ Dynasty Farewell Show Fresh off of a fantastic international tour and the release of her Love EP II, Tampa staple Dynasty will say goodbye to the city she’s called home for the last decade or so. Set to take place at her favorite stomping grounds, Crowbar, Dynasty will host “D.Y.L.A.,” which is officially her final show in Florida before heading to California. With a surprise lineup of Tampa hip-hop royalty of her choosing, this is a must-attend event for fans of local music. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO —Robb Ferdinand
Sons of Serendip This crossover quartet made famous on America’s Got Talent is set to saunter through its performance at the Straz. The Boston University-educated classical group is supporting its 2017 LP Life + Love, and is sure to impress with a soulful take on harp- and cello-driven easy-listening jams. (David A. Straz Center for Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO —RF
Erica DiCeglie Seminole singer Erica DiCeglie will belt her sunshine-laced tunes at the Blue Note. If you missed her at Country in the Park last month, this is a perfect time to catch her on the other side of the bay and inside the walls of a new, just-out-of-Ybor listening room. (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO —RF
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ALSO PLAYING
Holey Miss Moley w/Custard Pie (Ringside Cafe, St. Petersburg) INFO
More Is More (Ferg’s Live, Tampa) INFO
Vintage Youth w/VJ Jason Barco (Orbit 19 Lounge, Holiday) INFO
Old Bones w/Green Haven/Opposite (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
April 12-14, Green Day's American Idiot (Jaeb Theatre at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
UNFUN Descendents After Party (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Living Room Open Mic w/Rebekah Pulley (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Beatdown Band w/DJ Velore (Jazz House Supper Club, Tampa) INFO
Island Jamz (Molly Malone's Irish Pub, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Apr 12-19, 2018.