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Michael McDonald might have long lost children out there, and all five of them might be in Penelope Road.

The Atlanta band can get funky, and it really shines when it unabashedly channels the soul and harmony of vintage acts like Hall & Oates or The Doobie Brothers, then marries all of it with the pop sensibility of modern hitmakers like Michael Todd Gordon (aka Mk.gee).

Tickets to see Penelope Road play Crowbar in Ybor City on Thursday, March 13 are still available and start at $22.

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This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2025.

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...