Hagan Lee Album Release w/Aja Lorraine/Tony Handz/Acoupstix/MP St. Petersburg rapper Hagan Lee celebrates the physical release of his solo debut, Bars & AKAS, by welcoming another St. Pete wordsmith Jordan Carreno (aka Acoupstix), plus Tampa trill-hop artist Tony Handz and soul-jazz fusionist Aja Lorraine to Fubar on The 600 Block. Read our Q&A with Lee here. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Runaway Gin: A Tribute to Phish Mike Gordon, Trey Anastasio or anyone in the Phish camp aren’t coming to Tampa Bay anytime soon (Trey’s October 16 date in Jacksonville was as good as it got), so satiate the need for some heady jams by going to the Skipperdome where Charleston, South Carolina’s Runaway Gin will work through a road-tested tribute set. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
I Am Prodigy Music Festival w/The Freddy Montes Band This community festival celebrates a decade and a half of good work by the Prodigy Cultural Arts Program, which utilizes visual and performing arts in their research-based prevention and diversion program for at-risk kids aged 7 to 17. Many of the programs pupils live in high-risk neighborhoods or arrive from the Juvenile Justice System, and the headlining Freddy Montes band hopes to use their Afro-Cuban stylings to help raise money for the cause. (University Area Community Development Center, Tampa) INFO
Sabrina Carpenter Your kids know Sabrina Carpenter from the Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World. You know the 17-year-old singer from…well, you probably don’t. That doesn’t mean you still can’t get acquainted by turning on EVOlution, her new album of electro-tinged radio pop. Who knows, you might even park the car and go to the show yourself instead of just dropping the kids off. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO
Oceans Rise w/Gullwing Alright then. We’re just going to go ahead and say that Green Bench Brewing is never letting off the gas again when it comes to their live music booking. On Saturday they welcome two Tampa post-rock outfits (Oceans Rise and Gullwing) to send some atmospheric noise into the biergarten. (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
Ella Jet w/Mountain Holler A promising young Tampa Bay songwriter has completed another trip around the sun, and she’s taking to one of St. Pete’s coolest listening rooms to celebrate. The much older (but equally gifted) Mark Etherington brings his solo project, Mountain Holler, to the stage for an opening set. Listen to "Dreamer (Are You Dead)" here. (The Hideaway Cafe, St. Petersburg) INFO
Big Boi The world, no doubt, is clamoring for a new Outkast album, and despite an ill-sent Snapchat from Gucci Mane where he claimed to be working on “a record for Outkast,” reps for the band have said “nah.” What Tampa Bay fans will have to settle on, however, is this DJ gig from Big Boi. Sure, Antwan Patton is just one half of the duo (and won’t exactly be rapping the whole time), but one half of Outkast is about 50-times better than the whole of a lot of acts working in music these days. What’s more is that proceeds from the show will go towards onbikes, a Tampa-based non-profit that works to make sure every at kid youth in Tampa Bay gets his or her first bike sooner than later. Read our interview with the American cultural icon here. (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa) INFO
Endless Pools/The Mermers/DAWNS The Bolt strikes again. Tampa promoter Roxanne Gallo has a knack for pulling undersung acts out of non-Tampa Bay markets and getting them shows at one of the many great small venues around town. This time it’s a pair of Gainesville surf-rock outfits (Endless Pools and The Mermers) coming to the New World patio where DAWN (a fuzzy rock-noir group featuring members of now-defunct Zulu Wave) open the show. (New World Brewery, Ybor City) INFO
Playground w/Sean Hamilton Collective Soundscape architect Sean Hamilton (who CL profiled in August) curates what’s being described as “an improvisational experimental cabaret” that will use vignettes of solo and collective improvisation to explore “the boundaries of music and movement.” Tampa drummer Leo Suarez tops a solid lineup of musicians which include Hamilton on vibraphone plus Thomas Milovac on upright bass and clarinet player Alexander Ravitz. (The Venture Compound, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Shawn Mullins (The Attic, Ybor City) INFO
Above the Salt's After Dark Series: Marc Ganancias & David Kibby (Above The Salt, Café, Tampa) INFO
Clearwater Vintage Vinyl Record and CD Show (Clearwater) INFO
Nick Black (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Zoogma w/Daily Bread (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Dover Street Trio (St. Petersburg Main Public Library, St. Petersburg) INFO
Florida Pro Musica: Renaissance Christmas (St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Tampa) INFO
Govinda w/The Galactic Effect/Ancient Alien/ImproVibe/O.P.I/Victorious BIG (Pegasus Lounge, Tampa) INFO
Stanton Warriors (Platformz Event Lounge, St. Petersburg) INFO
Zerobabies (Jungle Bill's Tiki Grill, Clearwater) INFO
Victims of Circumstance/Saganaki Bomb Squad/Help! Police! (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Jump Ramp/Pig Pen/Lazermouth/The Prople (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
The Cunningham Wake/Cypher Machine/Divine Science/Half Ton Hammer/Three Knuckles Deep (Dec. 10, The Local 662, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Dec 8-15, 2016.