Shannon & the Clams, which plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on April 9, 2025. Credit: Photo via Ground Control Touring

Shannon Shaw is a songwriter seemingly from another era, but she explores a sadly universal theme on her band’s latest album, The Moon Is In the Wrong Place.

The 41-year-old recently lost her fiancé, Joe Haener, in a car accident weeks leading up to their wedding—and the record from Shannon and the Clams plumbs the depths of grief while also making room for celebrating life. More than a soundtrack for Mercury being in retrograde, The Moon reinvents doo-wop and rock and roll in a way that’s yet to be replicated by any band on the road today.

Tickets to see Shannon and the Clams play Crowbar in Ybor City on Wednesday, April 9 are still available and start at $30.

UPDATED 04/09/24 12:31 p.m. Updated because the show is at Crowbar, not New World Brewery. God, that’s embarrassing.

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This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2025.