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✔️ = Critic's Pick
Suncoast Surf Shop 52nd Xmas Party w/The Mad Beach Band/Billy Prine/Tom Gribbin/Gale Trippsmith/Janie Richards/Urban Gypsies Most of us aren't (a) aware that there can be surf on the west coast of Florida and (b) that it was once illegal to surf here in the first place. That's the world Suncoast Surf Shop owner Joe Nuzzo was living in back in 1966 when he founded his now BOTB-winning shop. Surfing has since come into the mainstream (and Suncoast has even infiltrated the internet), but Nuzzo's giving spirit hasn't wavered. That's why the 75-year-old is asking attendees of the shop's 52nd anniversary concert to bring an unwrapped toy or $5 to get into the party. Music will be provided by tiki rockers Mad Beach Band plus songwriters Billy Prine, Tom Gribbin (of Saltwater Cowboys), Gale Trippsmith and Janie Richards. (Gator's Café, Treasure Island) INFO
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CL Premiere: Listen to "Guilty Pleasures" from Tampa Bay bluesman Selwyn Birchwood's new LP, Pick Your Poison
✔️ Selwyn Birchwood w/Damon Fowler/Roy Book Binder A heavyweight bill slams into the Hideaway Café on Tuesday when Alligator Records signee Selwyn Birchwood is joined by two more Bay area blues giants for what is easily the best show happening on Tuesday night. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Antichrist Siege Machine w/Dozier/I’m An Intestine/Disevered If you’re not into the blues, then dive into black metal outfit Antichrist Siege Machine, which brings a tour in support of a new album (Morbid Triumph, released in August) to St. Pete’s Fringe District where Tampa death metal quartet Disevered, Gainesville grindcore guys Dozier and powerviolence duo I’m An Intestine all play very, very loud support sets. (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) INFO
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Carpenter’s Christmas w/Lisa Rock (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Ashley Smith w/Fil Pate/Joshua Reilly (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor) INFO
Tomaseen Foley's Celtic Christmas (Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo) SOLD OUT
Cormac Kavanagh (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Dec 14-21, 2017.