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Music Issue: Manny Kool on spreading the word and the heard
He’s more than lived up to his name.
Local Music
Here’s homegrown music news for the Tampa area you won’t get anywhere else
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Music Issue: Legendary moments — remembering when in Tampa Bay music
Green Day on Franklin St., Butthole Surfers in Clearwater and more.
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Music Issue: Where the records were, and still are, in Tampa Bay
From Asylum to Microgroove, these are shops that defined the Bay area
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St. Pete space-rock band The Venus muscles up the Joe Meek sound on “Saturn Grind” — listen
No mushrooms required when the band opens for Tonstartssbandht on July 8.
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Interview: Michelle and Doug Allen talk millions of records as Bananas Music approaches 40th anniversary — listen
The party happens on July 8.
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Sarasota blues outfit Tucci honors late guitarist Dan Toler by opening new LP with “High Roller” — listen
Tucci celebrates the release on July 16.
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Q&A: Palantine’s Vinnie Cosentino talks about new Bewildered States EP before one-off Ybor City comeback show
“I wanted to see if I could capture the feel of a full length Palantine album in three songs.”
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Video: Why is St. Pete composer Elizabeth A. Baker using a vibrator to make music?
Batteries included.
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CL Premiere: Swearingen and Kelli shares “Leaving Yourself” from new LP — read our Q&A
Self-produced LP from the Treasure Island duo is due on July 21.
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Joshua Cruz’s “Poison Lips” video might be the Bay area’s sexiest R&B clip to date — watch
The Tampa songwriter hooked up with filmmaker Roberto Rivera for an ode to mistakes, temptations and lust.
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A force of love and nature: Remembering Ray Villadonga, a linchpin of the Tampa Bay music scene
He died on June 10 at the age of 62.
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Rayzilla remembered: Tampa Bay reacts to the death of music scene legend Ray Villadonga
He died on Saturday after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Boys Don’t Cry: The Crate Brothers celebrate two years of Emo Night Tampa
A Tampa DJ duo turns a reputedly mopey genre into a rousing monthly party.
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Q&A: Tampa songwriter Ari Chi talks ‘Sea Foam’, upcoming Color Fool album release
PCCA and Gibbs High alumni Ari Chi chats with us about her upcoming album Color Fool, album release show at The Attic.
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Interview: Ol’ Dirty Sundays’ DJ Casper and DJ Fader reflect on six years gone by
’11’til Infinity?
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Q&A: Owen Meats shares new Swampuss video, talks upcoming Ybor release party
The party goes down on May 19 at Crowbar
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Loner is a raucous new LP from St. Pete punks Sonic Graffiti — stream the whole thing now
The boys open for The Damned on May 13.
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Summer Guide 2017: WUSF’s Mike Cornette tells us why jazz is cooler than ever
Plus a list of where to see jazz in Tampa Bay
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WURK 96.3 FM, Tampa’s not-so-secret low-power community radio station, is now on the air
You can listen to it within 10 miles of downtown Tampa or online from anywhere
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Tampa Bay pianist John O’Leary just raised $5,000 for an album about neuroscience
This is what a group of DNA segments in bacteria sounds like.