Credit: magicgiant/Facebook

Credit: magicgiant/Facebook

About a year ago, American Authors and Magic Giant (pictured) teamed up for a single, “Rocketman,” that showcases a sound which Rolling Stone once called “somewhere between the Avett Brothers and the Chemical Brothers.” If you’re not sure how you feel about that, then maybe just turn on the innocuous sounds of Ohio pop outfit Public, which opens the show.

American Authors w/Magic Giant/Public. Sat. Jan. 25, 7 p.m. $25. Orpheum, Ybor City. eventbrite.com

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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...