A busy night in live music is highlighted by a super-casual loosely Halloween-affiliated show at St. Pete's Green Bench Brewery featuring many strains of indie-pop. The poster is all kinds of rad (see below), but the music is even better (that's in this post's nethers, too). The cover charge? None. Pet-friendly. What could go wrong?
Don McLean is also in Clearwater, VNV Nation stops in St. Pete and The Florida Orchestra kicks off their weekend Motown and Beyond shows in Tampa.
Read (a little) below, listen and then go experience something. It's Friday, you working stiffs. Oh, Panama Red rules, too.
Pajamas w/Coastals/Freelow/Vessoul It didn’t take long, but former Mouse Fire member Shane Schuch is already assimilated back into the live music calendar. His electro-dance Pajamas project plays its third live show (as far as we know) at Green Bench on Friday, and Schuch will be joined by Tampa’s Coastals, whose super-polished, incredibly infectious indie-pop has been on repeat in our headphone for the better part of the week. This is a free show. (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
Florida Orchestra Pops: Ray Charles, Motown and Beyond (Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
Panama Red (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Gino & the Goons Monster House Party w/Jensen Serf Co./PrettyVoices (House Show) INFO
VNV Nation (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
Don McLean (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
Aksel Kolstad (Friday Morning Musicale, Tampa) INFO
Eluv (Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum, Tarpon Springs) INFO
Heissler Organ Concert Series (St. Petersburg College Music Center, St. Petersburg) INFO
Selwyn Birchwood (The Ale and The Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Lauren Daigle (Countryside Christian Center, Clearwater) INFO
Malaa w/Rezz (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Seven Kingdoms (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 3, 2016.