Halloween’s always extra special when it’s on a Friday, and even better for local live music fans who can wear costumes to a concert. Have a look at some of the best Halloween concerts you can get into this week, and see an extended listing of the best live music coming to Tampa Bay Oct. 30-Nov. 6 below.
All shows are happening on Friday, Oct. 31 unless noted otherwise.
Antelope Antelope is no stranger to pretending to be someone else, but the Bay area’s resident Phish tribute will presumably turn the act way up for this set at what’s easily St. Petersburg’s best place to hear jam-centric sounds. (Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg)
Bang Out w/Real/Suffering Spirit/Blown Apart/Spittoon Ybor Heights’ beer garden and concert venue hosts a heavy-hitting, two-day rock festival Saturday-Sunday, but warms up with two Halloween events including a “Day After Devil’s Night” matinee featuring members of Midwestern industrial-rock band The Electric Hellfire Club (My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult member Rev. Thomas Thorn). After the hangout, is this halloween party headlined by bruising Tampa hardcore band Bang Out. Winner of the costume contest gets a year of free shows put on by Tampa promoter Locust Parade, which promises to get you out the door by 11 p.m. so you can do other Halloween things. (Deviant Libation, Tampa)
Emo Night Tampa Halloween 2025: Sam Bips & Friends w/J/IN/X/Devotion and Desire (Bayside tribute)/Peace Cult As Phoebe Bridgers says, Halloween is a time when we can be anything—and Emo Night Tampa takes that to heart. The 2025 lineup for its Halloween concert features Sam Bips & Friends covering Bright Eyes, J.IN.X channeling Kid Cudi, Devotion and Desire covering Bayside, and Peace Cult doing Green Day. These Halloween editions have become a kind of tradition. The last time Emo Night Tampa rolled out this all-covers show, bands tackled Jimmy Eat World, Blink-182, and Radiohead. What makes this Halloween extra scary is that Crowbar’s lease is set to expire in 2026 and while the venue has secured rights through then, what happens after is anyone’s guess—this could be one of the last Emo Night Tampa Halloween parties there. Owner Tom DeGeorge has spoken openly about the challenges independent venues face in Ybor City, where development pressures are changing the landscape. “Our 20-year anniversary is in 2026, and I really want to get there,” DeGeorge told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay in 2021. (Crowbar, Ybor City)—Sophia Lowrie
Ella Jet w/Radio Silent In a world of uncertainty, Ruby’s is a rock. St. Petersburg’s home for live music (mostly blues, jazz, rock) has been a staple of the Bay area for 14 years now and on Friday welcomes a songwriter who’s been a big name in the area for even longer than that. Ella Jet is back after a few years in Nashville and comes to her Thursday residency with cutting new heartbreak songs in tow. (Ruby’s Elixir, St. Petersburg)
Final Friday: The Wandering Hours w/Lesa Silvermore Band/Sean Fote Partygoers get $5 off the cover charge if they show up to this Americana-centric warehouse district show in costume. (Suite E Studios, St. Petersburg)
George Pennington’s Halloween Odyssey Band There might now be a better guitarist working on Halloween. George Pennington III is fresh off a new album (American Odyssey, released over the summer), but turns into a figure in black for this rocking, blues, funk and jazz-flavored Halloween tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. (The Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg)
Halloween K-Pop rave Are you an adult demon hunter? The only thing this traveling Korea-phile pop-up doesn’t bring to the party is kimchi. (Orpheum, Tampa)
HalloWeezer: W.T.F (Weezer Tribute Family) Dunedin’s hub for live music hosts a Misfits tribute on Saturday in its Moon Tower venue, and spends Halloween with a Weezer tribute band. Opening act Buffy and the Slayers is obviously an homage to the late-’90s cult-favorite TV series, but also plays hits from that decade, too. (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin)
Haunted Fest: Disclosure w/Rezz/Matroda/LYNY/Allan Daniel/Know Good/Klo/TinyKat The St. Pete Pier tries on its wook costume for Halloween with a two-day EDM festival where U.K. duo Disclosure (“Latch”) headlines along with Croatian house DJ Matija Rodić (aka Matroda). On Saturday, the pier gets a visit from Isabelle Rezazadeh, a festival favorite better known as Rezz, who promises another “Nightmare On Rezz Street” set that’s typically featured unreleased music that probably won’t ever see proper distribution. (St. Pete Pier, St. Petersburg)
Jack’s Mannequin w/Hellogoodbye Millennials can pretend to be young again at this show where Andrew McMahon (Something Corporate) brings his Jack’s Mannequin piano-pop project to First Block. Over the summer, the group celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Everything In Transit album (along with the anniversary of McMahon’s acute lymphocytic leukemia diagnosis), so expect them to be in high spirits for this one where Hellogoodbye (a favorite from the heyday of Drive-Thru records) opens. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
Kodak Black Trump pardonee Kodak Black, a popular Florida rapper who regularly uses production by Bay area producers, plays one of his biggest local headlining shows to date. (Yuengling Center, Tampa)
Peter Frampton Frampton might as well call himself Mr. Never Say Never at this point. Half a decade after telling fans that his diagnosis with body myositis, a disorder that wreaks havoc on the body’s muscles, would keep him from touring, the 75-year-old Brit is back yet again. This time, he’s fresh off the news that next month will see him in Nashville taping a special for the 50th anniversary of his landmark album Frampton Comes Alive!. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
The Venus w/Brother Cephus/DJNotUrGirl B2B SmushySlugs/Zanzibean B2B Johnny Champagne/We’re Sweet Girls At the risk of sounding like the Steve Buscemi “How do you do, fellow kids,” meme, this no cover dive bar gig really does feature some of the best bands and party-throwers to come out of the Bay area over the last decade. Brother Cephus, a Tampa rock outfit anchored by the brooding guitar and vocals of brothers Seth and Gabe Davis, is joined by St. Pete’s king of electrified Americana The Venus. Rounding it out are DJ sets from Sector.FM favorites SmushySlugs, plus tunes selected by mixtape queens We’re Sweet Girls. (The Bends, St. Petersburg)
3rd Rail Theory (fka Flakeys Gang) Friday, Oct. 31. 7 p.m. No cover. Outcast Brewing Company, St. Petersburg
Devil’s Playground: Precipice w/Killz On Contact/Alice’s Fever Dream/Karkaza/End Of Us/Markuss The Karkuss and The Bloody Nuns/Castrofate/Six Feet of Venison Friday, Oct. 31. 5 p.m. $20. Brass Mug, Tampa
Emo-Ween Bash: DJ Cub Friday, Oct. 31. 8 p.m. No cover. Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa
Level Up w/Flozone Friday, Oct. 31. 10 p.m. $25.96. The Ritz, Ybor City
Marianne and the Professor Friday, Oct. 31. 7 p.m. No cover. The North End Taphouse, Gulfport
#NoFilter Friday, Oct. 31. 6 p.m. $15 & up. OCC Road House, Pinellas Park
Only R&B Halloween Party: DJ Ted Smooth Friday, Oct. 31. 7 p.m. $11.20 & up. Krate at The Grove, Wesley Chapel
Rockin’ Vagrants Friday, Oct. 31. 9 p.m. No cover. Bauser’s, Dunedin
SG Wood Friday, Oct. 31. 5 p.m. No cover. Biergarten at New World Brewery, Tampa
Stanley Jordan Plays the Dead Friday, Oct. 31. 7:30 p.m. $30 & up. Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
Suburban Wasteland Friday, Oct. 31. 7 p.m. Over 21 pay what you want, under 21 $10. Oscura, Bradenton
Sweet Lick Friday, Oct. 31. 7 p.m. No cover. Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor
TL Jentgens Friday, Oct. 31. 9 p.m. $24.80. Bayboro Brewing, St. Petersburg
Zach Short Friday & Saturday, Oct. 31 & Nov. 1. 7 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, Clearwater Beach
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Zach Short Friday & Saturday, Oct. 31 & Nov. 1. 7 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, Clearwater Beach
Betty Fox Band Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $19.10. Bayboro Brewing, St. Petersburg
Black Valley Moon w/Vindicators Saturday, Nov. 1. 6 p.m. No cover. Grand Central Brewhouse, St. Petersburg
Boyce Avenue Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $35 & up. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Brian Kelley w/Ghost Hounds Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. No cover. The Bay, Sarasota
Bryan Smith Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, Clearwater Beach
Charlie Morris Saturday, Nov. 1. 1 p.m. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg
Chase Stewart Saturday, Nov. 1. 2:30 p.m. No cover. Outcast Brewing Company, St. Petersburg
Concert On The Lot: Chase Matthew w/Alana Springsteen/Austin Williams/Trevor Snider Saturday, Nov. 1. 6 p.m. $30. Bartow Ford, Bartow
Conner Lindsay Saturday, Nov. 1. 5 p.m. No cover. Biergarten at New World Brewery, Tampa
Crackerbilly Band Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. No cover. Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor
Cypress Creek Jazz Band Saturday, Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. $12 & up. Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa
Dead Set Florida Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. No cover. Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg
DeLaran & The Collective Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. No cover. The North End Taphouse, Gulfport
Emoween: Predayed w/Pinkblxxd/Swazaé/Illumni/Mars/Hexi/Ghoulie/Erokmule Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $15. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
Evan Parker Saturday, Nov. 1. 4 p.m. No cover. Outcast Brewing Company, St. Petersburg
Geri X and Charlie Wells Saturday, Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. No cover. The Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Gimme Gimme Disco Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $23.19. Orpheum, Tampa
Got The Life (Korn tribute) w/Suffer (Staind tribute)/New Divide (Linkin Park tribute) Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $17.85. Brass Mug, Tampa
Greg Woodruff Saturday, Nov. 1. 3:30 p.m. No cover. The North End Taphouse, Gulfport
Halloween Indie Night: Mak w/Mossheads/Hibiscus Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. $17.67. Crowbar, Ybor City
Harry Potter Rave Saturday, Nov. 1. 10:30 p.m. No cover with RSVP before midnight, $15.57 for guaranteed entry. The Ritz, Ybor City
Joe Denny and The Joyriders Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. No cover. Outcast Brewing Company, St. Petersburg
Josiah Queen (Album release) Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. $41.30 & up. Yuengling Center, Tampa
LaRue Nickelson Trio Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. No cover. Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa
The Mars Volta Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. $54.50. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
Misfits Tribute: Beauty School w/Boney Fiend/Defrauded/Heidi’s Arcade/Markuss The Karkuss & The Bloody Nuns/Rath & The Wise Guys Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. No cover. Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin
Mr. Whiskers & the Nine Lives Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg
Night Moves (Bob Seger tribute) Saturday, Nov. 1. 6 p.m. $30 & up. OCC Road House, Pinellas Park
North Star Band Saturday, Nov. 1. 6 p.m. No cover. Gulfport Brewery, Gulfport
Rex Floyd (Pink Floyd tribute) Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. No cover. Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
Soulfish Saturday, Nov. 1. 9 p.m. No cover. Bauser’s, Dunedin
Swim In Salt (Record release) Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $10. Anecdote Brewing Co., Indian Rocks Beach
Tampa Doom and Gloom Fest: Dead Sticks w/The Burial Ground/Blood of the Earth/Dread.Mire/Screaming Mad Dee Calhoun/Consume The Wolf/The Path/Withdrawn From Humanity/Razor and the Boogie Men/The Path of Increased Indifference/more Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 1 & 2. 12:30 p.m. $35 per day. Deviant Libation, Tampa
Theo Valentin Saturday, Nov. 1. 7 p.m. No cover, but RSVP required. Teco Theater at Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa
Todd Carey Saturday, Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. $22.85 & up. Music4Life Living Arts Center, Clearwater
Acoustic Sunday Brunch: Gracie Topping Sunday, Nov. 2. 1 p.m. No cover. Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
ARConnection (Chick Corea tribute) Sunday, Nov. 2. 3 p.m. $10 & up. Mainstage Theatre at HCC, Ybor City
Carrollwood Winds: Fall Concert Sunday, Nov. 2. 3 p.m. $12 & up. Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa
Church Sessions: Ano DnB w/Thee Joker b2b Hellman/Qeys b2b Shines/Von Garden/R2TAT2/Kay-S/MCs/Mic Deluxx/Indy Rock Sunday, Nov. 2. 9 p.m. $10. Crowbar, Ybor City
Earth Bombs Mars Sunday, Nov. 2. 4:20 p.m. No cover. The Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Hirie w/Cas Haley Sunday, Nov. 2. 7 p.m. $35.43. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
James Suggs & Mark Moultrup Sundays. 3 p.m. No cover. Hawthorne Bottle Shop, St. Petersburg
John 5 and Richie Kotzen Sunday, Nov. 2. 8 p.m. $44.50 & up. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Ken Carlyle Sunday, Nov. 2. 3 p.m. No cover. Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor
Kristopher James Extravaganza Sunday, Nov. 2. 6:30 p.m. No cover. Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa
One Love Rising w/Fire Light Sunday, Nov. 2. 3:30 p.m. No cover. Shuffle, Tampa
Pedro Capo Sunday, Nov. 2. 8 p.m. $99.15 & up. Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Tampa
Razors Edge (AC/DC tribute) w/Knightsnake (Whitesnake tribute) Sunday, Nov. 2. 5 p.m. $20 & up. OCC Road House, Pinellas Park
Rich Sheldon Sunday, Nov. 2. 1 p.m. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, Clearwater Beach
Rob Lumbard and Michael Beck Sunday, Nov. 2. 3 p.m. No cover. The North End Taphouse, Gulfport
Sgammato Music presents Fall Funk Student Showcase Sunday, Nov. 2. 1 p.m. $10. Crowbar, Ybor City
Songwriters Round: Micah Madore w/Jeffrey Brockman/Amber Lynn Nicol Sunday, Nov. 2. 4 p.m. No cover. Bayboro Brewing, St. Petersburg
Speak Easy Sunday, Nov. 2. 2 p.m. No cover. 3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg
Strangelove (Depeche Mode tribute) w/Lovesong (The Cure tribute) Sunday, Nov. 2. 7:30 p.m. $44 & up. Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
The Sundaes Sunday, Nov. 2. 5 p.m. No cover. Grand Central Brewhouse, St. Petersburg
All County Chorus Concert Monday, Nov. 3. 7 p.m. $10. Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater
French Police w/Social Order Monday, Nov. 3. 7 p.m. $27.51 & up. Crowbar, Ybor City
Peggy Morris Mondays. 6 p.m. No cover. The Fenway, Dunedin
Toby: The Experience (Toby Keith tribute) Monday, Nov. 3. 7:30 p.m. $25 & up. Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
Dogma w/Frayle Tuesday, Nov. 4. 7 p.m. $28.69. Orpheum, Tampa
Hayes Carll Tuesday, Nov. 4. 7 p.m. $25. Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
Kasondra Rose & Helios Jazz Orchestra Tuesday, Nov. 4. 7:30 p.m. $25 & up. Side Door Cabaret at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
Matt Maltese w/Cornelia Murr Tuesday, Nov. 4. 8 p.m. $32. The Ritz, Ybor City
Shuffle Remix Tuesday, Nov. 4. 8 p.m. No cover. Shuffle, Tampa
Sun Room w/Bends Tuesday, Nov. 4. 7 p.m. $28.25. Crowbar, Ybor City
Tampa Bay Symphony: Fife and Drums – A Veterans Salute Tuesday, Nov. 4. 8 p.m. $30. Ferguson Hall at Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa
Alex Malkovich Trio Wednesdays through July 22. 6 p.m. No cover. The Nash Keys Dueling Piano Bar, Clearwater
Live Bluegrass Jam hosted by Fil Pate Wednesdays. 7 p.m. No cover. The Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Live Dead & Brothers Wednesday, Nov. 5. 8 p.m. $44.50 & up. Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Pool Kids w/Woolbright/Glazed Wednesday, Nov. 5. 7 p.m. $15. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
TJ Schaff Collective Wednesday, Nov. 5. 6:30 p.m. No cover. The North End Taphouse, Gulfport
CageGrass: Fil Pate Trio Thursdays. 7:30 p.m. No cover. Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg
Janet vs Mariah (DJ Ku w/DJ Casper) Thursday, Nov. 6. 9 p.m. No cover with RSVP. Alter Ego, Tampa
Nashville Night in Tampa: Tyler Reeve Thursday, Nov. 6. 7:30 p.m. $91. Jaeb Theater at Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa
Pickin’ Splinters (Bluegrass jam) Thursdays. 7 p.m. No cover. Woodwright Brewing Co., Dunedin
Rock The Park: Moonthing w/Roc Helton/Micah Madore Thursday, Nov. 6. 6:30 p.m. No cover. Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa
Twiztid w/ABK & Blaze/Reddstar/Bukshot/Boondox Thursday, Nov. 6. 6 p.m. $35.06. Orpheum, Tampa
This article appears in Oct. 30 – Nov. 5, 2025.