✔️ = Critic's Pick
Pedro the Lion It’s about 80 miles from Ybor City to The Social in downtown Orlando, and we think that’s a relatively short distance to see Pedro The Lion. The band just signed to Polyvinyl Records, which will release Pedro’s next album sometime this year. It’s been more than a decade and a half since the outfit — fronted by David Bazan, not a big cat named Pedro — released anything new, and a whopping 20 years since the band became slowcore legends on the back of a 1998 Jade Tree debut, It’s Hard To Find A Friend. (The Social, Orlando) INFO
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✔️ The Earls of Leicester It’s pronounced “Lester,” and you can expect the band’s leader — dobro player Jerry Douglas — to tread heavy on the old-timey Americana as the group pays tribute to the music of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and their band the Foggy Mountain Boys at this, The Earls’ Clearwater debut. (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
✔️ TRAGWAG w/Dakota Floyd/Rutterkin/Broken Things Rutterkin — a Tampa Bay band that’ll please fans of Iron Chic or Leatherface — makes its live debut at this low-cover ($5) record shop show where another local outfit (noise-poppers Broken Things) play support for Tyler Bisson’s Tallahassee-based folk-punk project TRAGWAG (That Really Awesome Guy With A Guitar) and Bisson collaborator Dakota Floyd, who is traveling to Seminole Heights all the way from Atlanta. (Microgroove, Tampa) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Daniel O'Donnell (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Gene Watson w/Farewell Party Band (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Kaleigh Baker & Someday Honey (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Daniel O’Donnell (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
February 19-24, Busch Gardens Music Series w/the Temptations' Glenn Leonard/the Platters' Joe Coleman/the Drifters' Joe Blunt (Stanleyville Theatre at Busch Gardens, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Feb 15-22, 2018.