✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Emo Night 3-Year Anniversary Night Two w/Caithlin De Marrais/Pohgoh/Expert Timing Emo Night Tampa has quickly settled into its new home at The Bricks Ybor, which’ll bode well for the vibes at the monthly DJ night’s third anniversary where a gatekeeper of the genre — Rainer Maria's Caithlin De Marrais — will guest DJ-ed on Saturday, June 2. DeMarrais returns on Sunday to play a set of solo (and Rainer Maria) material alongside Tampa emo-band Pohgoh and Orlando pop-punk export Expert Timing. "It's the the three year,” Emo Night co-founder said about the expanded, no-cover, anniversary party. “I gotta give back to everyone who supported." That still doesn’t mean you can request Metallica though. (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
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✔️ Flatbush Zombies/Kirk Knight/Nyck Caution From the outside, a set from Flatbush Zombies probably looks and sounds like a party. Initial spins of the new album from the Brooklyn hip-hop trio certainly feel like one, but a deeper dive into Flatbush Zombies’ sophomore full-length — Vacation in Hell — unveils a more serious affair that doesn’t tiptoe around sensitive topics like suicide, racism and the justice system’s obsession with throwing people in jail for petty crimes. A Vacation highlight — “M. Bison,” where Donald Trump is called a “fucking fake” — would make Geraldo Rivera rip off his own mustache. “There’s never a time when political music is not needed. I don’t think we thought, ‘We need this political song,’” Zombie Meechy Darko recently told GQ. “But I know that if we made an album without a song with that kind of message, we would feel like something was missing.” What won’t be missing from this Sunday set at The Ritz will be youthful energy, and you might want to get an advance ticket is you don’t want to miss out. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Timecop1983 Nothing wrong with a little Dutch synthwave on a Sunday, and this show finds Timecop1983 brings its sound — which is simultaneously retro and futurist — to Ybor city. Listen to "Night Drive" below. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
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Sara Rose Band (Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
The Stevie Nicks Experience Tribute Band w/North 2 South (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Betty Fox Band (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Morten (Shephard’s Beach Resort, Clearwater Beach) INFO
Zensemble (Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Deck Music: Patricia Kenoly (Mermaid Tavern, Tampa) INFO
Super Bob w/Vladimir Vannilsson/No Further Thought/StraightJacket/Beyond Apheliion (Pegasus Lounge, Tampa) INFO
Mama’s Batch (Hideaway Cafe, St. Petersburg) INFO
Dallas Bull Teen Nights (Dallas Bull, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in May 31 – Jun 7, 2018.