All the best Tampa Bay concerts and live music events happening over Halloween weekend

Halloween weekend is here, and that means this week’s roundup of the best live music happening in Tampa Bay between tonight and Thursday, Nov. 3 includes lots of shows where costumes are encouraged.

See a list curated by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay contributors below, including some shows submitted by users via CL’s events calendar.

Friday, Oct. 28

• Adventure Club (The Ritz, Ybor City)
• Bands From The Dead: 27 Club Edition feat. George Pennington III/Dre Mack/Samantha Leigh (Floridian Social Club, St. Petersburg)
• Demi Lovato w/Dead Sara (Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)
• Halloween Haunted Carnival: DJ Pauly D w/Dzeko/more (Armature Works, Tampa)
• Ian Munsick (Dallas Bull, Tampa)
• Lorna Shore (Orpheum, Tampa)
• Smashing Pumpkins: Tiny Terror (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa)
• The Wallflowers w/Mercy McCoy (Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater)
• Ybor Horror feat. Discord Theory w/Hollyglen/Neverless/Mortal Sons/Keep It A Secret/Viewers Like You (Crowbar, Ybor City)

Saturday, Oct. 29

• Halloween Haunted Carnival: Blondish w/Gordo/Hayden James/more (Armature Works, Tampa)
• La Luchaween (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)
• Melt-Banana w/Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (Orpheum, Tampa)
• Monsters Ball: Sickick (Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)
• Palomino Blond w/Permanent Makeup/Kick Veronica (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
• Romeo Santos (Amalie Arena, Tampa)
• Singer Songwriter Seance: Aaron Hollingsworth w/Jon Barnes/Matt Shelley/Will Birdwell/Dangerpin/Evan French/Jordon Lilley/OtherworlD/more (The Vault DIY, Holiday)
• Tchami (The Ritz, Ybor City)

Sunday, Oct. 30

• Halloween Haunted Carnival: Steve Aoki w/Diesel/Morten/more (Armature Works, Tampa)
• La Fiesta: A Celebration of Chick Corea w/The Zachary Bartholomew Trio (Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City)
• Spooky Live Music Night: Will Quinlan & Max Norton (Independent Bar & Cafe, Tampa)
• Tempo Daylife: Cheat Codes w/Atrak (Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)

Monday, Oct. 31

• Emo Night Tampa: Misfits & Joyce Manor cover sets w/Mindwash/Bad Bad Things/Amatuer Taxidermy  (The Hub, Tampa)

Tuesday, Nov. 1

• Bad Suns w/Last Dinosaurs/Quarters of Change  (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)

Wednesday, Nov. 2

• Beabadoobee  (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)

Thursday, Nov. 3

• EXTC w/Sandman Sleeps/Ed Woltil (Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
• Here Come The Mummies (Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater)
• Oso Oso w/M.A.G.S  (Orpheum, Tampa)
• Rock The Park: The Ruckus “Late Nights” w/K-Ruth/Moonbae (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa)
• Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown w/Speak Easy/Sick Hot  (Floridian Social Club, St. Petersburg)

This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2022.