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✔️= Critic's Pick
✔️ Jessie Reyez This one is almost dripping with as much hype as SZA’s recent performance in the same room, and an audience full of fans will find out if Jessie Reyez really is the “Next Queen of Outspoken R&B” (as Billboard has dubbed the 27-year-old singer and songwriter of Colombian descent). Being Human in Public — Reyez’s new EP of violently passionate, romantic soul-pop — goes a long way in making that argument, so we’re guessing that you might never get to see Reyez in a room this intimate again. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Twenty One Pilots w/Awolnation/Max Frost The Tampa stop on Twenty One Pilots’ Bandito Tour literally sold out in minutes (you can try and see the mega-popular pop duo in Orlando over the summer if you missed out), and the idea for a wristband lottery for Amalie floor seats, erm, was rescinded just as soon as it was announced. New album Trench is less than a month old at this point. (Amalie Arena, Tampa) SOLD OUT
Aphrodite w/Thee Joker/Dvoid/Truk The Godfather of jump-up style jungle comes to the recently revamped Pegasus Lounge a full 30 years after he first fell into London’s acid house underground driven by pirate radio and the U.K.’s party scene. Gavin King’s releases as Aphrodite (plus others as Aladdin and Amazon II — a side project with producer Tony B.) arrived on dance floors in ‘95 and garnered the attention of DJs like Hype and Zinc, and while Aphrodite’s earlier releases were buried in in a ragga style, his late-1995 and 1996 releases began bridging the gap between the gimmicky, sample-heavy choruses and jump-up’s more spry stepping. (Pegasus Lounge, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Emo Night Tampa w/Spork/Crate Bros. It’s only been a week since we were at The Bricks making asses of ourselves at a Halloween Party, but the Ybor City mainstay calls us back for another edition of its Emo Night monthly. Spork’s sound recalls a time when jangly, sometimes jazzy indie-rock wasn’t called emo, and the Tampa-based band will play a live set in between selections from Emo Night Tampa residents (and creators) the Crate Bros. Free to attend as always. (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
WMNF Presents: The British Invasion 4 More than a dozen English bands from the mid-to-late ‘70s get celebrated when community radio station 88.5 FM taps local groups like Steve Connelly and the Lesser Gods, Cottondale Swamp, Ricky Wilcox and the Moonsnakes and Talk To Mark to cover the likes of Costello, Clapton, Graham Parker, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Bowie and more. We’re not sure how Swiss vocal pop group ABBA got thrown into the mix, but “Mamma Mia” always tasted good with bangers and mash, right? (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Assuming We Survive w/Riot Child/Dose After spending the summer on Warped Tour, Los Angeles pop-punk quintet Assuming We Survive is finally breaking out of the studio where it worked with producer Tyler Smith (Dangerkids, Bless the Fall, Falling In Reverse) on a new album, Chapters, which was released two weeks ago. This nice and noisy show in the suburbs is rounded out by once Stockholm-based alt-pop duo Riot Child. (The Noise Box, Tampa) INFO
Same Day Delivery Orchestra Not sure how Tampa Bay’s Same Day Delivery Orchestra has come down from last week’s Fangsgiving benefit performance that found the ensemble backed by a band and powering through one hell of a Zeppelin cover, but local scene lovers can find out when the group — which specializes in orchestral covers of other Tampa Bay area folk, indie and rock artists — crams into the living room at this intimate house show and potluck. You’re going to have to ask somebody about the address. (House Show, South Pasadena) INFO
✔️ Allen Stone w/Nick Waterhouse Allen Stone’s last two Bay area gigs were a limited role in Andrew McMahon’s spectacular solo club show and a private, impromptu performance for children and adults with developmental disabilities at PARC in Tyrone. The 31-year-old soul-pop crooner returns to Ybor City to headline a show that’ll hopefully preview a lot of the material from a forthcoming 2019 album. Not to be missed is the opening set from Los Angeles songwriter Nick Waterhouse, whose love of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, John Lee Hooker, and Van Morrison has earned him a load of fans attracted to Waterhouse’s own retro R&B sound. (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Sofia Talvik Swedish folk and americana that chronicles the journey of European songwriter Sofia Talvik who has been on a journey through 47 U.S. states in support of seven full length albums as well as songs from her upcoming album, set to be released early next year. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Patrick Hughes album release w/DJ Wally Clark Produced entirely by Bluuzone and Betty Dawl collaborator, Jordan “JxPvtty” Patrick, the new album from Bay area rapper Patrick Hughes sees release at a boutique South Tampa shoe store in Hyde Park Village. This one is free to attend with advance registration, and we’re pretty stoked to see the show happening in a normally mundane part of town. (Social Status, Tampa) INFO
✔️ 95.7 Beats By The Bay w/Keith Sweat/Fantasia/Tank/Next/Doug E. Fresh/Slick Rick Who can love you like Keith Sweat? Nobody, apparently, and the 57-year-old R&B/new jack swing star from the mid-’90s is still riding high. He even released a new album, Playing For Keeps, just last month. Don’t expect anything more than snippets of it, however, when the man who, along with Teddy Riley, changed R&B forever headlines 95.7 The Beat’s annual Beats by the Bay concert. (Vinoy Park, St. Petersburg) INFO
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Monterrey w/Liquid Pennies/Carlos Travieso/Lukayn (Hooch & Hive, Tampa) INFO
Cardinal Slinky w/Spirit and the Cosmic Heart/Story Mode/Ricky Steece/Kid Loki (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
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Tommy Phenom & Cherry Bomb (Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa) INFO
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Planet Graveyard w/Tickle/Blood, Bath & Beyond (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Neil Berg 50 Years of Rock II (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
Matthew Bistok Banned (Smokin’ 19, St. Petersburg) INFO
Hip-hop
LPB Poody (Whiskey North, Tampa) INFO
Elements Hip-Hop Night (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
DJ/EDM
Future Friends w/RogerThomas/Temple V/Wally Clark (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Blues/Funk
Doug Demming (Merchand’s at The Vinoy, St. Petersburg) INFO
Holey Miss Moley (Ka’Tiki, Treasure Island) INFO
Tribute/cover
Paisley Craze: Rockadelic ’60s Music (Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Tommy Gunn (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Singer-songwriter
John Holt (c. 1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Americana/Bluegrass
Michael J. Weiss (4 p.m.) and The Applebutter Express (8:30 p.m.) (The Ale & the Witch , St. Petersburg) INFO
Jazz/Classical
First Saturday Jazz w/Nate Najar (Independent Bar & Café, Tampa) INFO
Florida Orchestra Goes Disney (2 shows) (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
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Sgammato Student Showcase No. 12 (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
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This article appears in Nov 1-8, 2018.