John Nowicki and The Holy Terror at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on December 1, 2018. Credit: Michael M. Sinclair

John Nowicki and The Holy Terror at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on December 1, 2018. Credit: Michael M. Sinclair

John Nowicki: The Holy Terror (And Other Diversions) John Nowicki teased his new album in January and made good on the promise 10 months later by delivering an 11-track collection of murder ballads, drinking songs and instrumentals that bounce around tunings, time signatures and the kinds of energy that the drug-addled redneck inside all of us would be proud of.

Scroll through a slideshow of 2018's best Tampa Bay music releases or see and sample all of them here. Call your local record store to see if it is carrying the release.

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