The Venus Credit: Photo by Jason Ryan c/o Gasparilla Music Festival
Some bands are live music calendar staples, and others are more like local sasquatches only to be seen on the blood moon. The Venus, one of Tampa Bay’s foremost purveyors of psych-rock, falls into the latter. For its first St. Pete show in more than a year, the band, led by Alexander Charos, plays a free gig at The Bends alongside insane rock and roll trio Johnny Mile & the Kilometers and art-rock unit The Tilt.

There’s no cover to see The Venus at The Bends in St. Petersburg on Saturday, April 1.

This article appears in Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2023.

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...