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✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Art Garfunkel It’s been about four years since Art Garfunkel made his Capitol Theatre debut, so it makes sense that the Grammy-winning songwriter and folk hero would sell out both of his return shows. Garfunkel, 76, probably won’t read from his 2017 book, What Is It All But Luminous (Notes From An Underground Man), at this one, but you can almost count on hearing solo stuff as well as hits like “The Sound of Silence” to “Mrs. Robinson” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
All Day Breakfast The formerly St. Pete-based band All Day Breakfast (ADB if you’re text messaging) comes back home from Los Angeles to play an ethereal brand of indie-rock for old friends and new fans alike. Keep your fingers crossed for ADB’s lounge-y cover of Kendrick Lamar’s “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe.” (Black Crow Coffee, St. Petersburg) INFO
HOME TEAM
Tampa supergroup Carrollhood on staying home, new music and more
✔️ Carrollhood w/Brother Cephus/Loose Talk/The Lulls In Traffic Carrollhood is a Tampa Bay alternative-rock supergroup featuring members of Underoath, Anberlin and Say Anything. On Friday, the group releases new music alongside a pair of close-to-home pals (including Brother Cephus, who released one of 2017’s best local albums — Not That Important) and Lakeland’s The Lulls In Traffic, which is fronted by Copeland principal Aaron Marsh. Read more about this show in a recent Carrollhood profile and interview we’ll push to the top of cltampa.com/music. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Clay Walker w/Davisson Brothers In the early ‘90s, Clay Walker’s first two singles (“What’s It To You,” “Lie Until I Die”) went to No. 1 on the Billboard country charts, but the budding star was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a few years later. Walker was just 27 years old at the time, but he’s since defied that diagnosis and become a huge advocate for charitable causes surrounding the ailment. He’ll share his lust for life with loyal fans at this show that’s just a little bit of a hike for Bay area country fans. (The Stockyard, Holiday) INFO
Have Gun, Will Travel It’s about 30 miles from CL’s Ybor City office to the sweet sights of the stage at Ka’Tiki on Sunset Beach. Bay area Americana kings Have Gun, Will Travel play closer to home often enough to make skipping this show acceptable, but no one’s gonna blink twice if you decide to ride out to Sunset Beach to catch the show. (Ka’Tiki, Sunset Beach) INFO
HAVE SHOW, WILL TRAVEL
Album review: Have Gun, Will Travel, Science from an Easy Chair
The Florida Orchestra w/Lisa Vroman Broadway star Lisa Vroman (Phantom, The Most Happy Fella, The Pirates of Penzance) joins conductor Stuart Molina as he leads the Florida Orchestra through Rodgers & Hammerstein hits from The Sound of Music, The King and I, Oklahoma! and more. This Friday show in Tampa will also happen twice on January 13 at St. Pete’s Mahaffey Theater. (David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Pavlov’s Bell w/Reality Asylum/SeaFang/Soapbox Soliloquy If you spent a healthy amount of time with your parents’ old jazz and prog-rock records, then you’re probably going to want to check out bassist and composer Jorge Fernandez as he leads his friends drummer Francisco Lujan and keyboardist Santiago Suarez (collectively known as Pavlov’s Bell) through a set of super-smooth, sorta-weird interstellar psych-rock. An A-plus lineup of equally trippy and entertaining locals opens a show that’ll cost you $0 to walk into (tip your bartender and buy merch though, dingus). (Fubar Downtown, St. Petersburg) INFO
Vodkanauts Reunion's were all the rage in 2017, and the trend continues when Vodkanauts keyboardist Ryan Arsenault makes a brief return back to the States. His break from all that German culture, universal health care, and good beer in Europe includes a show with his old band, which'll bring all the old-school surf and lounge charm back to life at one of St. Pete's best dives. (Emerald Bar, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Folk/Americana
Cadillac Cowboys (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor) INFO
Rebekah Pulley w/Rob Pastore (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Kate Callahan w/Meg Shannon (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Mallory Moyer (The Lucky Anchor, Clearwater) INFO
Jason Bieler (Saigon Kick) (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Alias Julius (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Songwriter Sessions (The Loft, St. Petersburg) INFO
Blues
Betty Fox Band w/Beth McKee (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Jam/World/Funk
January 12-15, Distant Dimension – House Music & Camping Festival (Maddox Ranch, Lakeland) INFO
Holey Miss Moley (Subcentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Oldies
Johnny Mathis (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) SOLD OUT
Classical/Chorale
Chariis Damaras, Solo Recital,Prelude and Variations (Music Center at St. Petersburg College Gibbs Campus, St. Petersburg) INFO
EDM/DJ
Saymyname (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Soul on Franklin w/DJ Blenda (Hall on Franklin, Tampa) INFO
Rock/Pop
Poly Essence w/Super Fly Crew/Matt Bistok (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
URN w/Bad Blood/Axe Handle Hound (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Tribute/Cover
Greg Billings Band (Buckets Grill & Tap, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Jan 11-18, 2018.
