THURS 01

Rock the Park w/Rocksteady@8/Mighty Mongo/Rebekah Pulley THX Management's monthly outdoor music series kicks off September with toast-filled reggae-dancehall beats (Rocksteady@8), youthful punk-reggae featuring boy-girl harmonies (Mighty Mongo), and femme-wise and Americana twangy folk rock (Rebekah Pulley). (Curtis Hixon Park, Tampa)

FRI 02

John Vanderslice w/Alexander and the Grapes The prolific, well-regarded indie rock musician founded San Francisco's renown all-analog recording studio, Tiny Telephone, in 1997, eventually recorded his own debut there in 2000, and along the way, earned production credits on albums by Spoon and The Mountain Goats, and saw all manner of other artists come through his studio's doors. His ninth full-length, White Wilderness, is a collaborative release with Minna Choi and her Magik*Magik Orchestra that dropped in January via Dead Oceans. Read more about Vanderslice on p. XX. (CL Space, Ybor City)

Steam Fridays: Adam Tyler The Honey Pot welcomes sexy pop-tronic singer-songwriter Adam Tyler for a performance at its "King Tut's Egyptian Orgy"-themed party. Tyler is getting ready to drop his debut electro-dance LP, Shattered Ice, and stops in town as part of the inaugural "Electroqueer's North American Tour," which is billed as a showcase of the "very best in pop and electronic music from emerging and on-the-cusp artists." (The Honey Pot, Ybor City)

First Friday: The Sheffield Crew CD Release w/Badda Skat/Tribal Style A free all-ages event headlined by The Sheffield Crew, a ska and dub-fused reggae rock quartet from Marco Island that delivers vibrant island-flavored jams led by the toasts-rhymes of vocalist Chris Jacobs, who also brings a taste of brass to the band's sound on trumpet. The Crew are celebrating the completion of a new LP, When The Night Falls…, and everyone who attends gets a free download card of the album. Rounding out the bill is "grass dub" artist Badda Skat (lyricist/singer Aaron Smith) and local roots reggae staple Tribal Style. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)

DJ Ferry Corsten The next international electronic music artist to hit the Amphitheatre stage is Dutch trance leader Ferry Corsten (aka System F), who's produced remixes of anything from William Orbit's Barber's Adagio for Strings to The Killers' "Human" to U2's "New Year's Day." He's won a mountain of awards, and was ranked No. 9 in DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJ Poll in 2010. (Amphitheatre, Ybor City)

Graveyard Boulevard w/Housebroken/The Funeral Dazies/Cowboy Mafia With tracks like "Meet Me at the Grave," "Choke Yourself," and "Rock and Roll Creepshow," you kind of know what to expect from Charlotte, N.C.'s Graveyard Boulevard: cheeky punk-metal with horror movie overtones, the result both upbeat and aggressive. (Orpheum, Ybor City)

Dex Romweber Duo CD Release Show w/The Mojo Gurus/The Lambasters A brother-and-sister guitar-and-drums two-piece, Dex Romweber Duo is led by the deep drawling baritone of veteran underground musician Dex Romweber, who delivers lines like "But just when I think I had it all, it glides right through my hand / Just when the curtain falls, I'm alone all over again" (from "People, Places and Things") against dusty, rolling, stripped-down folk-roots and punk-bluesy rockabilly, his older sister Sara keeping the rhythms and providing higher-toned vocal harmonies that are a nice foil to her brother's lower register. This show celebrates the release of their sophomore LP, Is That You In The Blue?, out July 26 via Bloodshot Records. Romweber is Jack White-approved. In fact, White cites Dex as an inspiration and even invited the duo to his Third Man Studio in 2009 to record a 7" that featured a Dex original with White on bass, vocals and hand saw, and a cover of an obscure Geechie Wiley tune. (Dave's Aqua Lounge, St. Petersburg)

Dan Toler w/Tucci Indiana native and longtime Sarasota resident Dan Toler brings a healthy dose of blues, soul and R&B to his Southern rock tunes. His rather impressive resume includes decades worth of recording and touring experience with Dickey Betts and Great Southern, the Allman Brothers Band and Gregg Allman Band; projects with Johnny Townsend (The Toler/Townsend Band) and George McCorkle from Marshal Tucker Band (The Renegades); and periodic gigs as axeman for a roster of artists like Charlie Daniels, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Warren Haynes, Derrick Trucks and Jimmy Herring, among others. (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa)

Sebastian Ingrosso He's been active in the house music scene since he released first official remix in 1999. Sebastian Ingrosso has since put out original tracks and remixes steadily in the more than dozen years since, both as a solo artist (like "How Soon Is Now" with Dirty South, David Guetta and featuring singer Julia McKnight) and as one of three DJ/producers in the internationally-renown group, Swedish House Mafia. He also wrote and produced Kylie Minogue's 2010 single, "Cupid Boy." (The Venue, Clearwater)

SAT 03

Bryan McKnight Modern R&B singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Brian McKnight has recorded upward of a dozen studio LPs in more two decades, his first six all earning Top 10 spots in Billboard's R&B albums chart. Though he's never won a Grammy, he does hold a record — 16 nominations without a win. This tour supports Just Me, a two-disc set released in July that features 10 new jazz and gospel-tinged tracks along with a solo acoustic concert performance recorded live in February. This, too, is a solo acoustic concert. (Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa)

Great Deceivers w/Living Arches Great Deceivers are an Orlando outfit that craft appealing, mildly off-kilter songs with lazy guitar melodies, roiling or swaying rhythms, discordant instrumental breakdowns, and lovely vocal harmonies that are sometimes blue and despondent, other times shimmering with hope. All of it adds up to a pretty interesting mix of psyche-shoegaze and experimental pop. (New World Brewery, Ybor City)

Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival w/Avenged Sevenfold/Three Days Grace/Sevendust/Seether/Bullet For My Valentine/Escape The Fate/Black Tide/Art Of Dying/Hell Or Highwater Yet another multi-band rock tour, this one the second annual day-long two-stage Rockstar Energy Drink-sponsored UPROAR Festival. Avenged Sevenfold are the headliners of the 2011 edition. According to writer/photographer Jeff O'Kelley, the heavy metal foursome "offered what, in my opinion, was the best performance of the day" at the 2010 event, and throughout their hour-long set, "A7X never stopped long enough to take a breath, accompanied by a continuous pyrotechnic show that must have raised the amphitheatre temperature a few degrees." Like acts fill out the rest of the bill. (1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre, Tampa)

Rick Springfield w/Starship feat. Mickey Thomas Aussie singer-songwriter Rick Springfield delivers AC power pop, and is best known for '80 hits like "Jessie's Girl" and "I've Done Everything For You." The band that was Jefferson Airplane in the '60s, Jefferson Starship in the '70s and Starship in the '80s has broken off into two branches. Starship featuring Mickey Thomas — the vocalist who replaced Marty Balin in '79 — was formed in '92 after original member Paul Kantner claimed Jefferson Starship as his own in '91. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)

Burning Tree Tour Kick-Off Party w/Trial By Stone/Resinated/Trigger City Trio St. Pete's Burning Tree released their Oppressive Heat EP earlier this year and earned a three-star review from former CL Contributor Amber McDonald, who was impressed by the band's mature lyrical skills. "Too many reggae rock groups fall back onto the easy (and hackneyed) subjects of chicks and drinking, but the Bay Area band seems to have a natural knack for crafting songs that reflect on the issues of everyday people with style and heart while not coming off as pretentious." This show kicks off a three-week, 14-date national tour in support of their recording. (Local 662, St. Petersburg)

SUN 04

Half Way to St. Paddy's Day Festival w/Paper Tongues/Rude Squad/Shu Tang/Not Tonight Josephine/The Josh Magwood Band/Renegade Strand/many more The second annual downtown St. Pete fest hosted by Durty Nelly's features a diverse array of more than 20 local artists and bands, is celebrated at nearly a dozen area bars, and is headlined by a fast-rising national act, rap rock/alt-metal septet Paper Planes. (Multiple venues, downtown St. Petersburg)

Periphery w/The Human Abstract/Textures/The Contortionist/Big Red Robot/Sidereal Pulse/Slay The Serpent Ominous progressive metal quintet Periphery, from Maryland, builds complex time signatures marked by dual shredding guitars, heavy bass grooves and machine-gun drumming, with competing guttural roar-clean wailing vocals laid overtop. The band released their self-titled LP last year and a follow-up EP, The Icarus Live, in April. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)

Nekromantix w/The Brains/The Cadillac Bombers This August saw the release of Nekromatix's eighth album of fast-and-heavy monster-and-horror-themed psychobilly, What Happens In Hell, Stays In Hell (Hellcat Records). Among the 13-song suite are such hilariously self-explanatory numbers as "Bats in My Pants," "SleepWalker with a Gun" and "I Kissed a Ghoul." (Local 662, St. Petersburg)

Neon-Xtreme Tampa: The World's Largest Glowstick Party An event that boasts 50,000 glow sticks and 50 DJ's (Sandman, Noodles, Barry Carew, Grimey, Shady, Chris Craze, Domi, Kutmaster, Prophet and more) as well as live performances by up-and-coming Tampa-by-way-of-Memphis hip-hop artist Layne Harper (who signed to Def Jam earlier this year), and "swag pop/hip hop/R&B" singer-songwriter Gabriel Harmon, among others. Free admission before 11 p.m. (The Ritz Ybor, Ybor City)

Cadillac Bombers The Hub throws a free "Rockabilly Labor Day Hoedown" as delivered by old timey rockabilly, Western swing and jump blues quartet Cadillac Bombers, from Tarpon Springs, fronted by throaty retro-pretty vocalist Kalamity Kat. (The Hub, downtown Tampa)

MON 05

Rock Allegiance Tour: Buckcherry and Papa Roach w/Puddle of Mudd/P.O.D./Red/Crossfade/Drive A The month-long "Rock Allegiance Tour" is a package deal — a so-called "celebration" of U.S.-brewed mainstream rock co-headlined by two hard-edged California rock outfits: Buckcherry and Papa Roach. (Stadium Green Iguana-Hawaiian Village, Tampa)

WED 07

Return of the Chicken Chasers The hilariously irreverent St. Pete-based ensemble led by singer and concertina player Meyer "Little Squeeze" Baron returns after a summer off to treat locals to a few sets worth of their vibrant and original mix of swing and Klezmer (self-styled "schving"), which also incorporates elements of late night blues, vintage rock, and Latin and gypsy jazz. (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg)

Hunx and His Punx w/The Coathangers/Hungry Gayze/Michael Christmas Seth Bogart started his '60s garage rock revival act, Hunx and His Punx, in 2008 and released a series of singles that were compiled on a 2009 release. But the openly gay singer-songwriter didn't produce his first official LP until this year, when he put together an all-girl group of "punkettes" — which included Shannon Shaw (of Shannon and the Clams) on bass and snotty back-up vocals — and recorded Too Young to Be In Love, out this March on Hardly Art. His sound now veers more to what he's dubbed "young oldies," a mix of bubblegum pop and '50s rock, with the punkettes singing back-up harmonies to Bogart's nasally croon. His live style is flamboyant and outrageous, reminiscent of Kevin Barnes at his peak of Montreal glam, but with authentic leather-clad homoerotic appeal. Kyle Thomas (King Tuff) joins the band on guitar for their current run of dates. (Crowbar, Ybor City)

ALSO THIS WEEK

Letters&Numbers w/We're Not Dead/Y Los Dos Pistoles/Caleb Hyers Fri., Sept. 2, New World Brewery, Ybor City

The Riders of the Easy Posse Fri., Sept. 2, Yeoman's Road Pub, Tampa

Hip Nautic Fri., Sept. 2, Monkey Bar, Clearwater

Denise Moore and Then Some Sat., Sept. 3, Ruby's Elixir, St. Petersburg

St. Pete's PBR Art Show Party w/The Semis/Feral Babies/Michael Christmas Sat., Sept. 3, Fubar, Ybor City

Stained Ashes / The Defiant / Judicator / more Sat., Sept. 3, Pegasus Lounge, Tampa

Al Torchia & The Tattered Saints Sat., Sept. 3, Yeoman's Road Pub, Tampa

Jim Morey Band Sun., Sept. 4, Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa

Pete & Wayne Sun., Sept, 4, Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa

Sarasota Slim Tue., Sept. 6, Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa

Phone Calls From Home w/Move Out West/Divided By Friday Tue., Sept. 6, Local 662, St. Petersburg