Clap Your Hands Say Yeah w/Laura Gibson Alec Ounsworth is in town, and he’s got a new LP (The Tourist, released in February) to play when he visits Ybor City. It’s the fifth full length for Ounsworth’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah project, and the Philadelphia native says that it chronicles a particularly low point in his life. The ten track effort isn’t a sad affair, however, and finds the 39-year-old songsmith playing with an array of synth, harmonica and pedal effects with much delight. Oregon folkie and multi-instrumentalist Laura Gibson, touring behind her excellent 2016 LP Empire Building, opens the show. If you can't make it to the show, then at least tune into WMNF 88.5 FM in the 2 o'clock hour when Clap Your Hands Say Yeah appears on It's The Music with Nancy Cee. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
USF Symphonic Band: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous Sadly, school is almost out, but the USF symphonic band will close it out with a final concert that promises to tackle standards like Dmitri Shostakovich's "Festive Overture" plus less traditional compositions like "Godzilla Eats Las Vegas" (Eric Whitacre) and John Mackey's "Asphalt Cocktail." (University of South Florida School of Music Concert Hall, Tampa) INFO
Popa Chubby The name alone is worth a click (and he plays Caliente nudist resort next week), but you’d be hard pressed to hate yourself after smoking one and watching a hilarious animated music video for Popa Chubby’s new song “The Catfish.” The music itself is straight up, road-hardened blues and big Popa wears the tear of his almost three decade career with class. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Flavor Savor Tuesday: Welcome back to WallyWorld Edition w/Bronze Age Buttons Tampa producer and DJ Wally Clark is back in town after a little jaunt on the Four Horsemen tour, so Crowbar’s Tuesday weekly is throwing him a party. Your boy Mic Deluxx will be on hand to flex his BOTB-winning fare, and a pop up shop from new Tampa button makers, Bronze Age Buttons, will give you something to retail about. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
SPC Percussion Ensemble (St. Petersburg College Music Center, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Apr 20-27, 2017.