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✔️= Critic's Pick
✔️Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness w/Allen Stone/Zac Clark/bob oxblood One of my fondest musical memories is being at a Ryan Adams festival set singing along to “To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, To Be High)” at the top of my lungs, looking over and seeing Andrew McMahon standing right next to me doing the exact same thing. In that moment, the 35-year-old frontman of Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin felt like a friend, and on Thursday he brings an impressive host of friends with him to Ybor City for an evening of acoustic songs that’ll hopefully cover the breadth of McMahon’s two-decade career. Criminally undersung soul singer Allen Stone is on this show, along with Burlington songwriter Zac Clark and McMahon’s Jack’s Mannequin bandmate bob oxblood. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Nylon and Steel: An Evening of Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar Music w/Dr. Jimmy Moore Dr. Jimmy Moore has taught a lot of people how to play guitar, and on Thursday he’ll be in Safety Harbor to show off his skills while also taking concertgoers on an historical journey that starts with the guitar’s nylon-string beginnings in Spain and ends at the steel-stringed story that many songwriters are still telling today. (Safety Harbor Public Library, Safety Harbor) INFO
✔️ Cyclopean Blood Temple/Burn to Learn/Spit/more This early show (7:30 p.m. doors, first band at 8 p.m.) promises not to leave you “too banged up for work/school the next day,” but a quick listen to Cyclopean Blood Temple’s May 2018 album, Unholy Union, has us questioning that claim. The effort is 14 minutes of unhinged, unpredictable grindcore packed into eight brutal tracks. It’s also an album we’d listen to over and over again. Orlando grindcore trio Burn to Learn opens the show alongside hometowners SPIT and I’m An Intestine. Listen to Unholy Union below. (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) INFO
Classic Albums Live This tribute set dedicated to Queen’s 1975 album A Night At The Opera might be worth the drive to Lakeland, where the always spot-on Classic Albums Live band will take on one of the ambitious classic-rock band’s best albums. (Youkey Theatre at Lakeland Center, Lakeland) INFO
Brit Floyd All hope is pretty much lost on an actual set from Pink Floyd, but there are many tribute acts to help us commiserate. This show finds one of the world’s best — Brit Floyd — performing a very special 45th Anniversary retrospective of Pink Floyd’s iconic 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Big lights, that circular screen, lasers and inflatables? Check, check, check and check. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Somatic (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Beatdown Band (Jazz House Supper Club, Tampa) INFO
Wakamole (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
David Oliver Willis Band (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Hector Mayoral (c. 1949 Florida Beer Garden, St. Petersburg) INFO
Vintage Youth w/VJ Jason Barco (Orbit 19, Holiday) INFO
"Living Room Live" Open Mic w/Rebekah Pulley (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Jun 14-21, 2018.