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✔️= Critic's Pick
UPDATED: 12 p.m. 11/02 The Allen Stone show is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, November 3. We regret the error.
✔️ Allen Stone w/Nick Waterhouse Allen Stone’s last two Bay area gigs were a limited role in Andrew McMahon’s spectacular solo club show and a private, impromptu performance for children and adults with developmental disabilities at PARC in Tyrone. The 31-year-old soul-pop crooner returns to Ybor City to headline a show that’ll hopefully preview a lot of the material from a forthcoming 2019 album. Not to be missed is the opening set from Los Angeles songwriter Nick Waterhouse, whose love of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, John Lee Hooker, and Van Morrison has earned him a load of fans attracted to Waterhouse’s own retro R&B sound. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Lyle Lovett & Robert Earl Keen w/Joshua Reilly Texas songwriter Robert Earl Keen makes his Ruth Eckerd Hall debut alongside another member of the Lone Star State’s Songwriters Hall of Fame, four-time Grammy-winner Lyle Lovett. “When I’m with Robert, I find that I think of things that I wouldn’t think of unless I was sitting with him,” Lovett recently said of his good friend. “Whether it’s in conversation or writing a song, he has that effect on me. He’s a catalyst in that way. That’s a rare thing in life.” Watch the pair trade songs and stories at this one. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
“Breaking Patterns” w/Conrad Garner Make sure part of your Friday night includes a stop in South Tampa, where one of the Bay area’s best illustrators and designers (Conrad Garner, whose has created some of the most intricate, eye-catching gig posters the local scene has ever seen) opens the doors on a new solo show. Free to attend, but advance registration is highly recommended. (Epicurean Hotel Garden Terrace, Tampa) INFO
Lassyu w/His Hem/Viewers Like You/Changer Big, loud and gay harp music hits the stage at a St. Petersburg DIY spot thanks to His Hem, which supports a new, 18-track album of angsty lo-fi folk, Bishxxp, at this show where a trio of Bay indie, emo and rock acts round out the bill. This one’ll cost you $6, kids, but the inexpensive shit beer at the donations-based bar means you can have a great night for just $15. (Paper Crane, St. Petersburg) INFO
Fever Beam w/Tommy Phenom & Cherry Bomb If you’d rather pay no cover to see some of the Bay area’s best young bands (and spend the money on drinks and grub instead), then here’s a free-to-attend gig at a Seminole Heights eatery where western-influenced rock and blues outfit Fever Beam plays after gravel-throated songwriter and guitarist Tommy Phenom leads his band, Cherry Bomb, through the opening set. Late start (10 p.m.), and a ride home is recommended. (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Acoqui w/Brother Cephus/MrENC Photographer Sandra Döhnert — whose work occasionally appears on cltampa.com — shows off some of her favorite shots in an art opening, and Orlando dream-pop export Acoqui (which evolved from frontman Alberto Hernandez’s solo, ambient guitar musings) continues to explore the sounds from a a 2017 album, A Heart Fills This Way, which the band recorded in Detroit with Deerhunter, Atlas Sound and The War On Drugs engineer Chris Koltay. The show gets bonus points since a pair of CL favorites — MrENC and Brother Cephus — open a gig that’ll cost just zero dollars to get into. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Florida Orchestra Goes Disney Tony Award winner Stuart Malina conducts The Florida Orchestra and Broadway-caliber singers through four Disney-produced programs featuring music from Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Tangled, The Lion King and more. Cosplay is encouraged, and the weekend series kicks off on Friday with a performance at the Straz Center in Tampa before two Mahaffey Theater shows in St. Petersburg and one Sunday show at Ruth Eckerd in Clearwater. Details via floridaorchestra.org.
Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield CD Release Songwriters Roy Schneider and musical partner Kim Mayfield are now collectively known as Reckless Saints. A self-titled, 11-track album features songs by both Schneider and Mayfield, as well as a cover of Blaze Foley’s “Election Day,” which features Gurf Morlix on lead guitar and contributing vocals. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs w/Peter Coviello A professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he specializes in American literature and queer studies will read from his new book, "Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs," and discuss his process of turning painful experiences into art. Described as a “passionate, heartfelt story about the many ways we fall in love,” Coviello’s new book follows his happy marriage, his blindsiding divorce, and his fumbling post-marital forays into sex and romance as he considers what keeps us alive and the grace of pop songs. The event, part of the University’s Scholar’s Symposia series, begins at 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public. (Scarfone/Hartley Gallery at University of Tampa, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Chris Barrows Band release show w/Saints Brigade/Long Lost Enemies/Kevin K Band A legend of Tampa Bay punk (Chris Barrows of Pink Lincolns fame) will be backed be members of other punk and hardcore bands (Mosquito Teeth, Pig Pen) for the release of a new Chris Barrows Band album, Live Fast Die Old. Kevin K keeps the time warp open with a classic set of New York punk and two out-of-town bands (Saints Brigade from Pasco County, Bradenton’s Long Lost Enemies) open the show. (Fubar St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Blues/Funk
The Rusty Wright Band (Side Door Cabaret at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Chris Walker Duo (The Landing at Jannus, St. Petersburg) INFO
Big Sam’s Funky Nation w/Legendary JCs (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Tribute/cover
Screamin’ Donkey (early) w/Beachwolf (late) (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
In Business (The Ale & the Witch , St. Petersburg) INFO
Destiny (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Twisted Revolvers (Smokin’ 19, St. Petersburg) INFO
EDM
Steve Aoki (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Foundation V.6 First Friday w/Freelance/JB Nicotera/Just.In.Case/Rohry Q (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
Jason Bieler (Saigon Kick) (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Offshore Riot (Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa) INFO
The Joe Coasas Project (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Honey Hounds (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
The Time Framed w/Comin’ Home (Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Sky Cratcher w/Fake News/MBB (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Hope Darling w/Jack Jagger (The Neptune Lounge, Tarpon Springs) INFO
Classical/chorale
Spooky Selections (Friday Morning Musicale & Federated Clubs, Tampa) INFO
Sykes Chapel First Friday: Noon Recital Series w/Ryan Hebert (Sykes Chapel at University of Tampa, Tampa) INFO
Art in the PARC w/Inspired Chorus (Duke/ Progress Energy Building, St. Petersburg) INFO
USF Faculty/Guest Recital: Rite for Two Pianos & Percussion (School of Music Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Jazz
Gloria West & The Gents Feat. Anthony Castellano/James Suggs/Paul Gavin (Zydeco Brew Werks, Ybor, City) INFO
Lounge Cat (The Independent Bar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Alias Julius (c. 1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Country
The Lacs (Dallas Bull, Tampa) INFO
David Lee Murphy (Stockyard Live, Holiday) INFO
Misc.
Metallica Listening Party & Trivia (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Nov 2-9, 2017.