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✔️= Critic's Pick
✔️ Precious Child w/Apocalypse Siren/Fjshwjfe/Whirlynn Precious Child has quite the pedigree. The Los Angeles experimental artist’s grandfather was a composer and conductor of the New York Metropolitan Opera House and also taught at the Curtis Institute. An uncle is an opera director with productions at the Kennedy Center and more and a cousin is a founding member of Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop in Berlin. Last year, Paste said that the imagery and sound of Precious Child’s “My Little Problem” video reminded it of Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer” plus “Prison Sex” by TOOL. That’s a lot to live up to, but the child will try at this show, one of two record store sets happening in Tampa Bay on Wednesday. (Mojo Books & Records) INFO
✔️ DK The Drummer/Sucré It’s been about a year since drummer Darren King left Mutemath, and this Wednesday-night show finds the Grammy-nominated composer and Kanye West collaborator (King co-produced “Real Friends”) headlining a show where another one of his bands (Sucré, fronted by King’s wife and former Eisley keyboardist/vocalist Stacy King) handles opening duty. The Kings have been a part of some of the most progressive, yet accessible, indie-rock from the last decade, so we’re expecting nothing less than excellence at this show. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Bush w/Stone Temple Pilots/The Cult/The Dirty Hooks This tour featuring three titans of alt-rock will be a month old by the time it hits Tampa, so we’ll see how the groups (each performing full sets in a different order each night as part of a “revolving headline run”) have adjusted to the schedule when the “Revolution 3 Tour” gets to Tampa. Oh, and in case you’re wondering: Jeff Gutt — a 42-year-old Michigan native who beat out roughly 15,000 hopefuls during an extended search that began more than a year ago — is now fronting the Pilots after frontmen Scott Weiland and Chester Bennington both died within two years of each other. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa) INFO
In The Whale w/The Easy Button/Broken Things In the Whale’s fight against its own sexist lyrics predates the #MeToo movement (just look up the debacle surrounding a machismo 2012 track “34-28-32”), but the Denver-based duo has evolved, pressed on and is playing in support of a brand new EP (Dopamine, which was released last Friday). It also encourages music fans to just experience the band live. “To anyone who hasn’t heard In the Whale, before passing judgment or taking the advice of internet trolls, take the time to come to a show,” drummer Eric Riley told Denver alt-weekly Westword in 2016. “You don’t read the comments on a news site and take those as fact. The same thing [applies] here.” St. Pete punk band Broken Things — which is currently raising funds to record some songs — and Tampa pop-punk outfit The Easy Button open the show. (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) INFO
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Betty Fox Band (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Aug 2-9, 2018.