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✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Triathalon w/Inner Wave/Hello Joyce You might not have guessed it by looking at the band members, but Triathalon (intentionally misspelled) makes bedroom music. The Savannah expats recently moved to Brooklyn, and the sticky and chill vibes of the South still found their way onto Triathalon’s new album, Online, in which lo-fi pop jams get lifted by Adam Intrator’s sultry whisper on tracks like “Training Day,” “Sometimes” and “Hard To Move.” Elsewhere, Intrator and his bandmates — drummer Chad Chilton and multi-instrumentalist Hunter Jayne — deliver cartloads of 808s, weird jazz interludes and tender love songs good for both smoke and sex sessions. It’s the kind of music that would fill an arena if The Weeknd was singing it, but the guys on the stage for Triathalon happen to look like the dudes on your high school math team. Los Angeles psych-synth rock group Inner Wave opens this ridiculously hip bill alongside Tampa Bay’s own Hello Joyce, who released one of CL’s favorite local albums of 2017. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
BEST LOCAL ALBUMS 2017
Hello Joyce shimmers quite nicely on Couch Thoughts
The Nighthawks w/Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Leave your P.C. hat at the door because 63-year-old keyboard wizard Reverend Billy C. Wirtz will likely pull no punches during his performance, which has earned a reputation for being something between a stand-up comedy set and a blues-rock revival. The Nighthawks will shut it down with a Chicago-blues based sound that’s been the foundation of a discography that now includes more than two dozen studio and live albums. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Mighty Jai/Aych & Friends/Audio Artwork/Alec Burnright/Ex Nihilo/Mouth Council/Bobby Treacherous/Jroc Jones/Jus Henry A trio of Tampa Bay’s hardest rap game hustlers (Left Lane Entertainment’s Jai Price, Young Parisians’ Audio Artwork and long-running cypher ringmaster Aych) somehow synced schedules to be a part of an impressive installment of this recurring hip-hop night at downtown St. Pete’s Fubar. Billy Mays snuck his improvisation-based loop project, Mouth Council, into the mix, too. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Glove w/Mtvh1n1/Donkng Gainesville’s Donkng will douse The Bends with a disastrous and delightful brand of manic rock that mostly defies categorization (it tiptoes the line between post-rock, punk and indie, if you must box it in). Two adored Bay area acts, Glove and Mtvh1n1, play support on a no-cover show. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Baauer w/Graves It’s 2018, and the hype surrounding Baauer’s 2012 viral hit “Harlem Shake” has finally died down… we think. We’ll see when the 28-year-old producer and DJ (born Harry Bauer Rodrigues) drops into The Ritz’s Friday night party. Hawaii-based Kanye West collaborator Graves opens the show, and the guy whose work on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy earned him a Grammy is the real reason to queue up early. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
ROAD TRIP
Review: In Ft. Lauderdale, Hippie Sabotage tokes, moshes, and hugs its way into Culture Room's heart
✔️ Hippie Sabotage For Christmas, CL contributor LJ Hilberath traveled to Ft. Lauderdale to catch EDM production team Hippie Sabotage warming up hearts at the Culture Room. Local fans won’t have to go nearly as far on Friday when Brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer — who’ve reached over 1 billion streams — bring a new LED wall to St. Pete for a very untz-y night of trippy wubs and psychedelia. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Jacuzzi Boys Te Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference is bringing at least one cool concert event with it: Miami garage-rockers Jacuzzi Boys, who will headline a night of readings and music at Ella’s Americana Folk Art Cafe. Get there early to hear some poetry, too. Read our story on the show via cltampa.com/music. (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
READING, WRITING, AND ROCK
AWP, Third Man Books and Jacuzzi Boys converge in Tampa
Emo Night Brooklyn Are you planning on making a request when Emo Night Brooklyn comes to Tampa? Make sure your Instagram DM is addressed to @emonight_bk and not @emo_night_tampa, OK? Other than that, let all your inhibitions go as the party mostly pulls from all the greatest hits of the genre’s third and second waves. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
St. Pete Grand Prix Jam w/Lit/Saliva/Puddle of Mudd/Dark Summer/more If you like your street racing with sides of ’90s rock, then head to Ferg’s on Friday when the sports bar plays host to Lit (“My Own Worst Enemy,” “Miserable”), Saliva (“Click Click Boom”) and Puddle of Mudd (“Blurry”) in celebration of the St. Pete Grand Prix. Every single one of these bands has endured some form of trauma over the years (Lit drummer Allen Shellenberger died in 2008 after a battle with brain cancer, Saliva and Puddle of Mudd have both had their share of personnel drama), but we hope the speed and sound can drown all of that out for a day. (Ferg’s, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
DJ/EDM
ALEN P w/Curtis James/JB Nicotera/Lyndon Uy/Santino Bontempo (SubCentral At The Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Silent Disco w/DJ Fresh/DJ Tex Flex/DJ Ich (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
You Vandal w/Gullwing/Shurwood/Broken Things (Lucky You Tattoo, St. Petersburg) INFO
SAHE w/The Time Framed/TBA (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
March 9-10, Paul Childers Band (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Jazz
Jazz w/Jim (Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa) INFO
Americana/Folk
The Applebutter Express (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Funk/Soul
Rev. Barry & the Funk (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Earth, Wind & Fire w//Charley Pride (Florida Strawberry Festival, Plant City) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Ray Gurka (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Kasondra Rose & Rebecca Zapen (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Cover/Tribute
Eccentric Band (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Sobriety X (Buckets Grill & Tap, Tampa) INFO
Scream Machine (Ka’Tiki, Sunset Beach) INFO
This article appears in Mar 8-15, 2018.
