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✔️ = Critic's Pick
Ol’ Dirty Sundays w/Chris Karns It’s high time for Chris Karns’ annual trip to Ybor City, and the Pretty Lights collaborator (and DMC champ) is still riding high thanks in part to his constant quest to always push the boundaries of turntablism. Cinco de Mayo hangovers are real, but we’re willing to bet that the ODS faithful will still be out in full force for what’s become Tampa Bay’s premier Sunday-night party. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Wu-Tang & Biscuits w/DJ Wally Clark/Eli Arbor Rochester rapper Eli Arbor (who also speaks at Lector on Tuesday) joins Wally Clark as this Tampa Heights shuffleboard club stages its weekly Wu-Tang & Biscuits party. Read our story on Arbor here. (Shuffle, Tampa) INFO
A NEW AMERICANA
Saying goodbye to Lector Social Club artist-in-residence Eli Arbor
✔️ Tribal Style Long-running Bay area roots-reggae outfit Tribal Style is quietly working on new music, and it has booked a low-key show at this 600 Block mainstay to keep its wheels greased. This show is being dubbed “The Sweet Sounds of Jamaica,” so expect selections that represent the best that the island nation has to offer. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Moneybagg Yo Bread Gang rise up. Demario Dewayne White, Jr. is a Yo Gotti protege with a new single (“Perfect Bitch”) to share with fans who’ll be at this Carrollwood nightclub to party with the 26-year-old Tennessee rapper better known as Moneybagg Yo. Expect to hear a little from his early 2018 album (Moneybagg Yo Presents: NLess Ent x Bread Gang) and a lot from a Valentine’s Day mixtape titled 2 Heartless. (Whiskey North, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Old Crow Medicine Show Old Crow Medicine Show’s new record, Volunteer (released April 20), was recorded at historic RCA studio A and produced by Dave Cobb (whose touch can be heard on new records by Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson). It won’t be hard to find volunteers willing to let loose with the mountain music-makers on Sunday, and you can bet that every single soul will sing along when the band launches its its cover of “Wagon Wheel.” (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
BOYS DON'T CRY
The Crate Brothers celebrate two years of Emo Night Tampa
✔️ Emo Night Tampa Presents: Photo Fire w/Snacking/Bendy Straw The Emo Night Tampa crew caps off its exciting weekend with an away show at The Hub. New Jersey indie-rock band Prawn rocked for Emo Night in January, and on Sunday Hunter Walker’s Photo Fire project brings its ambitious new album of electro-indie rock (Over & Over / Frame by Frame, released in late March) to the downtown Tampa dive for a show alongside dynamic pop outfit Bendy Straw and CL favorite Snacking. This show is free. (The Hub Bar, Tampa) INFO
Jeremy Carter & Friends Jazz Jam The Manhattan Casino is an iconic locale in Florida’s jazz folklore, and the revamped space hosts live music every weekend. Jeremy Carter (a member of hibernating Bay area ska outfit Bird Street Players) is usually at the helm on Sundays, and we’re excited to make his jazz jam a regular stop on our weekend trips around the ‘Burg. (Callaloo at Manhattan Casino, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Troy Tuner (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band at Ella's (Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
Deck Music: Michael Schlein (Mermaid Tavern, Tampa) INFO
Florida Orchestra Masterworks: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Tampa Bay Symphony w/Adam Langs (St. Petersburg College Clearwater Campus Arts Auditorium, Clearwater) INFO
The Florida Wind Band w/Agnieszka Zick/Lars Erik Larsson/Tom Brantley (Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Hernando Jazz Society Presents Allstars (Wellington at Seven Hills clubhouse, Spring Hill) INFO
Counterfeit (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
The Reality (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Mac Lethal w/Wax (The Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
The Attic presents Red Wanting Blue "The Wanting" Tour (The Attic At Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Will Quinlan w/TBA (Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Mama’s Batch (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
South Beach Sundays w/Morgan Page/Zack Martino (Shephard’s Beach Resort, Clearwater Beach) INFO
This article appears in May 3-10, 2018.
