Mold Credit: Photo via moldmusic/Facebook
Skatepark of Tampa’s Tampa Am returns this weekend, and as usual, organizers have planned unique art activations around one of the country’s most storied amateur skateboarding competitions.

The Bricks in Ybor City is ground zero for those activities on Friday, Nov. 11 thanks to this concert from 27-year-old Peruvian expat Carlo Barbacci who brings his noisy psych-rock band, Mold, for which he dumped thousands of dollars to record a stellar debut full-length No Silence! which features engineering from Ryan Haft who’s helped craft the sound of records by some of our favorite Magic City exports (Jacuzzi Boys, Jaialai, the recently-defunct Holly Hunt).

This free show features an opening set from Best of the Bay-winning St. Petersburg lo-fi rock band Chlorinefields, plus an art opening for French artist Lucas Beaufort who’s recently melded a love for painting to the skateboarding world by painting directly on print material often featuring the work of skateboarding photogs.

A press release says that in the “For Enter the Gus” show, “Beaufort has created a collection of works that juxtapose his brightly-colored and loosely painted ‘Gus Gus’ against the hard-lines and heavy contrast of skateboard photography.”

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...