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✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Lil’ Pump Gazzy Garcia’s attitude earned him attention after the 17-year-old Miami trap-rapper called out J. Cole on a spring 2017 diss track (“F*ck J. Cole” is pretty straightforward), but the emcee who personified the phrase “Soundcloud rapper we love to hate” has all but cemented his place in this latest season of popular hip-hop. Lil’ Pump (as Garcia is known on the internet) surfaced to No. 1 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists Chart, and his self-titled debut topped streaming charts while also appearing at No. 3 on Billboard’s Top 200. What’s more, he’s got cross-cultural appeal (Pumpereeno is loved by Pitchfork and XXL) and his latest big hit, this summer’s “Gucci Gang,” still burns up venues like the ones he’s hitting on this jam-packed, 26-date, one-month tour. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Soul! w/Gregg Schmidt/Sugarbear/BC Gregg Schmidt returns to this popular St. Pete night spot and taps two revered selectors — the Sunshine City’s own Sugarbear and the host of WMNF 88.5 FM’s Hip-Hop Flavors program, BC — to help him play the very best of the deepest soul music cuts. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
All Pro: DTSP’s Ultimate Hip Hop Music Event w/Achilles the Conqueror/Stykz/Jon Ditty The tight confines of Iberian Rooster’s basement space make for an intense setting to receive hip-hop, but you might not want to see the art form come alive anywhere else other than this sub-Central Avenue performance space where Dunedin (Jon Ditty) and St. Pete (TRC) meet Tampa‘s Achilles for a free Saturday-night shutdown. (SubCentral At The Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Gypsy Star You could hoof it out to Hudson this weekend to see New Port Richey world-beat folk outfit Gypsy Star play its “Tale of the Mistletoe” show, or you could just park it at this Ybor City listening room and hope that Billy Keen and Belinda Brodsky lead the band through a more local performance of the 2014 cut instead. (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) CANCELLED
✔️ Poptone Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins have come together to form a new band — Poptone — that plays cuts from bands like Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and even Tones on Tail, which the pair have both played parts in. Ash and Haskins have been working together since the glory days of the ‘haus, so don’t expect too much rust at this show. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
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Country, bluegrass and gospel jam (King of Kings Lutheran Church ELCA, Port Richey) INFO
Noche Caliente! A Night of Classic Spanish Guitar (C.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Tony Tyler Band (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Christmas Carillon Concerts (Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales) INFO
Uncle John's Band (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Charlie Daniels Jam Session w/The Confederate Railroad/Craig Wayne Boyd (Hard Rock Café at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Nov 30 – Dec 7, 2017.