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Video: Kacey Musgraves plays “Biscuits” on Fallon, see her at The Trop on July 25
Perhaps the only real thing pop country is producing these days
Ray Roa
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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The Daily Beast. Products and media for review consideration should be sent to 204 E. Henderson Ave., Tampa, FL 33602.
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City of Tampa welcomes Spam All Stars for a free surprise show before the Tampa Bay Lightning watch party
The Bolts and bachata draw thousands to Curtis Hixon Park tonight
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Listen to a Brit-flavored new track from Hymn For Her side project The Mix Tapes
New band was created to “not make us feel as if we sold our souls to the great bar mitzvah devil.”
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Album review: Have Gun, Will Travel, Science from an Easy Chair
The fifth and latest from the Bay area Americana favorites could be their best to date (audio included)
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A Tampa Filmmaker went to North Dakota to meditate on the meaning of love, the results are gorgeous
“Crosby Rail” takes an objective look at untouched, rural America, and unveils a little about ourselves in the process
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11 Reasons Why You Should Be Bummed About Missing Big Guava Music Festival
… and a few things you can be glad you skipped
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Tonight in live music: Speedy Ortiz at Crowbar
The hard-buzzing garage quartet lands in Ybor this Tue., May 12
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CL at Big Guava: Live Tweets, Streams, and Photos from the two-day festival
We’re on the ground (and on our phones) at Big Guava Music festival
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Tour News: Kraftwerk plays 300 miles away from Tampa Bay this September, while the weirdly excellent Guerilla Toss hits Seminole Heights next Thursday
The Germans play a very special show in Miami this fall, and Boston’s Guerilla Toss will stir the psych-disco punk pot at Microgroove on Thursday
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Underoath presents the local premiere of crowd-funded documentary Tired Violence at St. Pete’s State Theatre
What almost never saw the light of day will be unveiled first for the fans who made it happen
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Kacey Musgraves to play the Trop, Pre-Fest announces bands, Surfer Blood needs help & Weezer’s Brian Bell brings his new group to Ybor
Some Florida-centric newsbits to kick off your day.
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Tampa Bay named No. 6 on Foursquare’s list of Top Cities ‘Keeping Vinyl Alive’
We’re better than New York, Philly, and Austin!
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G. Love & Special Sauce returning to play free show at Curtis Hixon Park on May 2
The Philly bluesman headlines the Mayor’s Mac n’ Cheese throwdown during Riverfest weekend
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Listen/Watch: New music from Speedy Ortiz, Passion Pit, The War on Drugs and others on the way to Tampa Bay
Check out jams by Big Guava Fest performers, plus several more that hit town in the next few months.
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On Record Store Day, New Granada will reissue Candy Bars’ acclaimed 2006 LP on hand-cut vinyl
Only 20 copies of On Cutting Ti-gers In Half And Understanding Narravation will be available
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Tonight in Live Music: Swans and Brushfire Stankgrass
A look at the concerts happening this Wed., April 1
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Garth Brooks, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Smashing Pumpkins, Boy George, Marilyn Manson all coming to Tampa Bay in 2015
Kind of makes up for The Rolling Stones dissing us, right?
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Orlando, not Tampa, on agenda as The Rolling Stones finally announce their 2015 tour dates
June 12 date at Citrus Bowl is as close as they’ll get to the Bay area.
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Tonight in Live Music: The Devil Wears Prada & Moon Hooch
A breakdown of concerts happening March 31
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This Weekend in Live Music: Eric Church, Jim Lauderdale, Come Back Alice & more
A rundown of concerts happening the weekend of March 28-29