✔️= Critic’s Pick
Visit this slideshow to see all the best shows happening over the holiday weekend. Please be responsible this weekend.
✔️ Drunken Turkey Fry Beer Garden Sessions w/GreyMarket/John Nowicki and the Tiny Terrors/Jeremy Gloff/Louis Junior Crowbar’s debauched, annual pre-Thanksgiving party adopts the venue’s new-ish “Beer Garden Sessions” tag, but doesn’t let up on its commitment to send you home completely basted and full of tryptophan (plates of fried turkey, stuffing, baked beans and cranberry sauce are just $5). An eclectic lineup of hip-hop, pop, Americana and indie-rock will be on hand to provide the sounds. Free to attend. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Mayday Parade w/This Wild Life/William Ryan Key/Oh Weatherly Want to avoid everyone you went to high school with on the night before Thanksgiving? You might not be able to do so at this one, where Yellowcard’s William Ryan Key plays opener for a group of Tallahassee-based Hot Topic it-boys (Mayday Parade), which is surprisingly still touring (behind a brand new release, Sunnyland, too) despite having released its breakthrough pop-punk album, A Lesson in Romantics, more than 20 years ago. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Hungover for the Holidays w/The Crate Bros. If your weird uncle or quirky aunt likes to hang with the cool kids, then bring him or her to The Bricks, where The Crate Brothers will play selectors at this low-key pre-Thanksgiving DJ night meant to give you respite from the family members who think your obsession with vinyl and all-black clothing is a little childish. (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Damon Fowler’s Holiday Blues Bash This one, headlined by Bay area blues favorite Damon Fowler, is probably the least controversial of pre-Thanksgiving shows you can get into, and it’s probably the only one you’ll be able to leave while behind the wheel of your own car instead of dozing off in the back of an Uber. (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
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ALSO PLAYING
VNV Nation w/De/Vision/Holygram (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
Pre-Thanksgiving Party w/DJ Neiva/VJ Jason Barco/VJ Hural Knight (The Castle, Ybor City) INFO
Turkey Bowling w/Little Sheba & The Shamans/Cheap Gunslinger (Ella’s Americana Folk Café, Tampa) INFO
Chris Walker (The Landing at Jannus, St. Petersburg) INFO
Last Exit (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Impulse (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
3 Miles (early) w/Beachwolf (late) (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Orphanage Fraternity w/The Harvest (Orbit 19, Holiday) INFO
Red Sun Rising w/Spirit Animal/Pretty Vicious (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
This article appears in Nov 15-22, 2018.
