A side-profile photograph of a DJ with short brown hair, wearing black headphones and a vibrant, patterned tropical shirt. They are focused on mixing music using two turntables and a mixer on a wooden stage under a rustic pavilion at Pine Key, also known as Beer Can Island.
Austen van der Bleek plays Pine Key in Apollo Beach, Florida on July 18, 2021. Credit: Bryan Edwards / Austen van der Bleek EPK

Afterparties are so 2025.

This no-cover, 12-hour DJ gig in St. Petersburg’s warehouse district doesn’t get going until 7 a.m. and promises “head high waves of slow rolling funk, soul, disco, boogie, and anything else that stokes this eclectic selector as he waxes up his decks and takes the Sunshine City for a ride.”

And yes, organizers are seeking a chef to cook brunch as the sun comes up.

There’s no cover to see Austen van der Bleek spin on Thursday, Jan. 1 at Suite E Studios in St. Petersburg.

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This article appears in Dec. 25 – 31, 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...