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Animal Prince explores grief on 'Parallel Lines' from new album due this month

'Have Good Dreams' is out on Sept. 13, and the band has a Crowbar show in the works for 2025.

By Ray Roa

Sep 5, 2024

Death can immediately change the way we view the world around us, and it came knocking on Animal Prince's door recently when the group's core members, Fae Nageon de Lestang and Grant McLeod learned about the death of their former bandmate Chris Storey. "He was like a brother to us, but it had been so long since we'd even spoken...

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Alien House sits at the forefront of Tampa Bay’s electro scene

Justin Myers and Anthony Tarallo are building a community, too.

By Ray Roa
Jul 25, 2024
Hip-hop brought Wally Rios to instrumental music, and he hasn’t looked back

Rios loves when artists take his beats and make their own art.

By Ray Roa
Jul 25, 2024
Meet Fil Pate, Tampa's mandolin-and-guitar wielding, genre-jumping musical polymath

His music lives in the record store's Americana bin, but travels far and wide.

By Ray Roa
Jul 24, 2024
Harp-drum duo Katara among Tampa Bay’s best instrumental bands

Natalie Depergola and Seth Adam Lynn just released their debut LP.

By Ray Roa
Jul 24, 2024
‘Our way of communicating is through our instruments’: La Lucha among Tampa Bay’s best instrumental bands

The jazz tr regularly features vocalists, but ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ is a must-listen.

By Ray Roa
Jul 24, 2024
Bay area jazz bassist Michael Ross brings in young luminaries for fifth album ‘Giraffe’

Ross is among the best homegrown instrumental bands you can listen to right now.

By Eric Snider
Jul 24, 2024
Tampa’s Prescribed Fire brings myriad of rock influences to its polyrhythmic instrumental music

From ‘70s stoner-rock to math-rock, disco, and swing, it’s all there.

By Ray Roa
Jul 24, 2024
Meet the local orchestra that covers other Tampa Bay bands

Same Day Delivery Orchestra was formed in 2017.

By Ray Roa
Jul 24, 2024
Tampa trio Use & Care plays a punishing brand of instrumental rock

It's one the best instrumental bands in Tampa Bay right now.

By Ray Roa
Jul 24, 2024
In Tampa Bay's instrumental music scene, seeing Shaun Hopper is believing

The fingerstyle guitarist is a relentless gigger who's played for thousands.

By Ray Roa
Jul 23, 2024
SlopFunkDust and Spontonola are totems of Tampa’s beat scene

The duo has produced over 200 beats over the last three years.

By Ray Roa
Jul 23, 2024
Sector FM is changing the face of radio in Tampa Bay

By Dinorah Prevost
Jun 27, 2024
From tiny to giant, here are seven Tampa Bay music venues to visit this summer

By Ray Roa
Jul 24, 2023
Tampa Bay's live music scene is very much alive, but venues of all sizes face challenges to their wellbeing

What is the state of play these days?

By Ray Roa
Jul 21, 2023
Seminole Heights' Far Forest is the latest in a long list of must-experience tiny Tampa Bay music venues

Small spots let us mingle with musicians and make friends in between bands in an unpretentious way.

By Ray Roa
Jul 21, 2023
For many, Tampa music venue Skipper's Smokehouse is religion

And there are even more uniquely Tampa Bay music venues on both sides of the bridge.

By Ray Roa
Jul 21, 2023
Ybor City's Crowbar is king of Tampa Bay rock clubs, but wraps up its lease in 2026

And there are many similarly-sized rooms that a local music fan should know.

By Ray Roa
Jul 21, 2023
When it comes to Tampa Bay's midsize music venues, Hard Rock Event Center is a humble giant

The acoustics are great and there’s not a bad seat in the house.

By Kyla Fields
Jul 21, 2023
St. Pete has changed, but Jannus Live has been like a music venue old faithful for the last four decades

By Kyla Fields
Jul 21, 2023
Simply put, there’s no other venue like The Sound in downtown Clearwater

When you’re enjoying a late-December gig with shorts on, you’ll really understand why Tampa Bay really needed to hear this Sound.

By Ray Roa
Jul 21, 2023

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