✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Txlips w/Nervous Girls/Navin Ave. Just four months after an Ybor City show, Atlanta punk group Txlips returns to the Bay area for a St. Pete show alongside Shae Krispinsky-fronted Tampa indie-rock band Navin Ave. and an easy-to-love trio, Nervous Girls. Txlips is fresh off an appearance at Afropunk, so expect a high-energy affair at this all-ages femme-powered throwdown. (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) INFO
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Get a buzz from this Tampa barbershop before your hair does
The S.E.T. w/DJ Wally Clark/Rude 100/OP Supa On Thursday, we lamented the c. 1949 departure of Wally Clark's futurebeat night and looked forward to its eventual new home. Well, that didn't take long. The forward-thinking producer and Bay area scene supporter is bringing the exploration of forward-thinking sounds (R&B, soul, rap, you name it) to a new barber shop concept that also doubles as a bourbon bar. No cover, but bring monies for drinks and tipping. (The Bourbon Barber, Tampa) INFO
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Concert review: Taylor Swift brings Idina Menzel to Tampa, treats fans to the Best Halloween Ever
Taylor Swift Reputation Listening Party At least one of us in the CL music camp is still excited to hear the new album from Taylor Swift, and said criminal just may have all the lyrics memorized by the time doors open for this free Reputation listening party where 100-percent of the proceeds from a raffle will be donated to Trusting the Process, a local non-profit that seeks to change the public’s perspective on homelessness and help people connect to those who are in need. Read our review of Taylor Swift's last Tampa show here, and get details on her next one here. (Daddy Kool, St. Petersburg) INFO
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✔️ Thrice w/Circa Survive/CHON/Balance And Composure CHON’s last Ybor City gig was a sold-out, headlining affair at Orpheum, so we expect a lot of that crowd to mix in with Circa Survive and Thrice fans who’ll pack into The Ritz for a set that we hope leans a lot on new albums from the long-running hard rock outfits’ new albums. Read our interview with Thrice drummer Riley Breckenridge via cltampa.com/music. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Primus Walls will shake when Les Claypool brings Primus to Clearwater for a show celebrating the Grammy-nominated band’s ninth album, The Desaturating Seven (out now via ATO). Primus’s first batch of new music since 1995’s Tales From The Punchbowl features a classic lineup of the band finding inspiration in Italian author Ul de Rico’s children’s book The Rainbow Goblins, which Primus has twisted into a weirdly poppy, still-trippy 35-minute walk through the funhouse. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
✔️ Shana Falana w/Oxford Noland/King Complex Vocal loops get drenched in reverb and heady drum sequences when longtime New York psych-pop songwriter Shana Falana comes to The Bends for a free show that may transport you to another dimension. Family band Oxford Noland opens the show along with masked rock and roll duo King Complex. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
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How To Hatch A Song Egg: 15 minutes with Ben Folds — an interview
✔️ Ben Folds Paper Airplane Request Tour w/Tall Heights You probably won’t ever seen Ben Folds like this again. The beloved and bespectacled piano-basher — who last played Straz Center alongside the Florida Orchestra — will call the shots for the first half of this solo set, but he’s taking requests by paper airplane for the second half (seriously, write your request on one and then send it onstage when Folds tells you to). No 19th-century polkas, Michael Jackson songs or joke tunes, however, are allowed. Read why in our interview with the 51-year-old songwriter, which is available on cltampa.com/music. (Ferguson Hall at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
Una Voce: The Gay Men's Chorus of Tampa Bay: Testament of Freedom Freedom ain’t free, and neither is admission to two shows from Una Voce — the Gay Men’s Chorus of Tampa Bay — which is taking to both sides of the bay (Tampa on Saturday and St. Pete on Sunday) for shows honoring U.S. military veterans. A symphony and choir should make these one especially moving, and veterans do get in free. (Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Classical/Chorale
The Florida Orchestra presents Marvin Hamlisch & More (2 shows) (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Testament of Freedom w/Una Voce: The Gay Men’s Chorus of Tampa Bay/Tampa Bay Symphonic Winds/Palm Harbor University High School Choir (School of Music Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Suncoast Singers of Florida Concert: Celebrate Freedom (East Lake High School, Tampa) INFO
How the West was Sung w/Hernando Harmonizers and Easy Street (Northcliffe Baptist Church, Spring Hill) INFO
Concert For Veterans w/Carrollwood Community Chorus, Big Treble Youth Show Choir and MAS Theatre (Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa) INFO
Rock
Rise of Saturn w/Victims of Circumstance (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Good Grief Fest 2017 (The Noise Box, Brandon) INFO
Live From The Underground w/Tommy Phenom (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Cattle Decapitation w/Revocation/Full Of Hell/Artificial Brain (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
Whitechapel w/Carnifex/Rings of Saturn/Entheos (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO
Siesta Key Crystal Classic w/Ari and the Alibis/Jah Movement/Reverend Barry/more INFO
Blues
Tavares and the Blue Notes: More Than a Mission (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Backtrack Blues Band w/The Florida Mountain Boys (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Dunedin Wines the Blues Festival w/Boxcar Hollow/Chris Walker Band/Ally Venable/Jeremy Thomas/Southern Rumble/Anthony Rosano/ the Conquerroos (Main Street, Dunedin) INFO
Jazz
James Suggs Quartet (Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin) INFO
Ottmar Liebert w/Luna Negra (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
Hot on the Scene, Part II: Composed Optics w/Henry Ashwood Jazz Project (Duncan McClellan Gallery, St. Petersburg) INFO
Folk/Americana/Singer-songwriter
Reckless Kelly w/Cottondale Swamp/The Trongone Band (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Michael Tolcher & Friends (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Appleseed Collective (Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO
John Nowicki (Above the Salt Café, Tampa) INFO
Alias Julius (C.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
DJ
DJ Shafiq (First Chance Last Chance Bar, Ybor City) INFO
Deep Cuts w/DJ Cub/Seeber (Independent Bar, St.Petersburg) INFO
World/Jam
Toubab Krewe w/Row Jomah/Somatic (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Hip-hop
Bullseye Studios Annivesary Show w/Prophit/Aja Lorraine/100x Dirt/Remy Roe/Hyfa Tha Prospect/Ghos Wryter/Jroc Jones/Keezie Free/Tai Wilson/Doe Cram/Pressure (Pegasus Lounge, Tampa) INFO
2nd Saturday (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Nov 9-16, 2017.