The Venus plays Gasparilla Music Festival at Kiley Garden in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 27, 2022. Credit: Photo by Blake Yeager c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

Last week, The Venus shared its new single, “Samadhi,” which finds the St. Petersburg band coloring its already psychedelic rock and roll with a little Stax flavor care of organ from Ryan Willis, plus horns (Jason Charos on trumpet, Alex Malkovich on sax), and percussion you’d expect to hear from an artist on the Syllart imprint.

The Venus is in the middle of what should be a loud and raucous no-cover gig that includes Liquid Pennies and Radaghast.

There’s no cover to see The Venus play The Bends in St. Petersburg on Friday, Dec. 6.

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This article appears in Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...