Magic Giant, which plays Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa, Florida on May 9, 2018. Credit: Razor & Tie

Magic Giant, which plays Skipper’s Smokehouse in Tampa, Florida on May 9, 2018. Credit: Razor & Tie

✔️ = Critic's Pick

✔️Magic Giant w/Young Rising Sons Magic Giant’s hyper-intimate May 10 Safety Harbor show is sold out, so fans of the rising boho-folk outfit will want to head to Skipper’s the night before to say they saw the Los Angeles group before it completely blew up. Magic Giant was on the bill for 97X’s recent “Next Big Thing,” making it the very rare (and perhaps only?) band to ever appeal to middle-aged hippies and millennial festival freaks alike. Bonus points since Magic Giant also recorded its new acoustic EP (In The Wind, released last month) at Clearwater’s Clear Track Studios. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO


ALSO PLAYING

Mile-End Trio w/Marika Bournaki (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO

Betty Fox Band (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO

Chris Walker Band (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO

Ybor Speaks (Gaspar’s Grotto, Ybor City) INFO

Danielle Mohr (The Landing at Jannus, St. Petersburg) INFO

This article appears in May 3-10, 2018.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...