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✔️= Critic's Pick
✔️Hiphopalooza 6: The Bay Is Here Prince Golden's annual showcase of Tampa Bay's best new hip-hop acts returns to Ybor City with a bill of about a dozen acts. Our new interview with Golden also features a mixtape that includes nearly every Hiphopalooza 6 performer. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Michale Graves w/Argyle Goolsby/Nim Vind Is there life after The Misfits’ attempt to find new life by hiring a lead singer not named Danzig? Apparently so. Just look at this show headlined by 43-year-old songwriter Michale Graves who fronted a version of the Misfits from ‘95-2000. Many fans didn’t seem to mind seeing Graves at the helm, so expect plenty of them to show at the Brass Mug for this one where Blitzkid frontman Argyle Goolsby and fellow horror-punk songwriter Nim Vind open the show. (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
✔️ The F.A. w/Old Vices/Everything Issues Old-school punk and hardcore takes to the dimly lit floor at The Hub when The F.A (all the way from Vero Beach) headlines a show in support of its breakneck August release, How Riots Start. Old Vices holds it down for the Tampa punk-rock lifers, and Moose Masseuse retires its old moniker at this show where it’ll play under the Everything Issues banner. This one is free, not all-ages and definitely not smoke-free, either. (The Hub Bar, Tampa) INFO
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✔️ Big Gigantic w/Flamingosis Big Gigantic is a huge hit in its hometown of Boulder, Colorado, but the EDM duo (which just donated more than $70,000 to Centennial State hunger relief and youth empowerment nonprofit Conscious Alliance) is wildly popular in Florida, too. We’re pretty sure that this St. Pete gig alongside Jersey producer Flamingosis will sell out, which makes sense since this one-two punch of wubby jazztronica is actually one of the best shows happening on Saturday night. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
Brother Cephus w/Revel In The View/Spork Lakeland calls us away from home once again when Revel in the View invites a pair of the Bay area’s best bands — indie-rock quartet Brother Cephus and emo trio Spork — to The Poor Porker, which has hosted some other Bay area favorites (Kristopher James, Kaleigh Baker) of late. (The Poor Porker, Lakeland) INFO
✔️ Magic City Hippies w/Bay Ledges/The Hails Yacht rock is already fun on its own, but Magic City Hippies has re-invented it in a way on “Body Like A Weapon,” “Franny” and “Gunslingers,” a trio of genre-bending summertime singles where frontman Robby Hunter and his bandmates — guitarist John Coughlin and producer-drummer Pat Howard — deploy Howard’s Prophet 12 synthesizer, Coughlin’s lyrics and Hunter’s croon to create vibes that feel like what happens when Kendrick Lamar comes on the stereo during a Lambda Lambda Lambda bus ride to Bonnaroo. Los Angeles duo Bay Ledges and a rising Tampa band, The Hails, open this show, which is sure to be one hell of a party. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
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ALSO PLAYING
Tribute/Cover
Whiskey Dregs (early) w/Kettle of Fish (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Jaded (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Den of Thieves (Smokin’ 19, St. Petersburg) INFO
EDM
Sunset Saturdays (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Funk/Blues
Reverend Barry and the Funk (Buckets Grill & Tap, Tampa) INFO
Betty Fox Band (Ka’Tiki, Sunset Beach) INFO
Albert Castiglia Band w/George Pennington III (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Classical/Chorale
The Florida Orchestra: Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
St. Petersburg College Holiday Choral Concert (St. Petersburg College Music Center, St. Petersburg) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Noah Guthrie w/Jariah Higgins (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Seminole Heights Block Party w/Dean Johanesen (Mermaid Tavern & 7venth Sun Brewing, Tampa) INFO
Napolean the Wilderness (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Mutlu (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) CANCELED
Rock
Bitemarks w/Meatwound/Permanent Makeup (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Atreyu w/Memphis May Fire/Ice Nine Kills (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Wet Nurse w/Nervous Girls (Shinebox at Jim Chambers Music Box, Tampa) INFO
Growler w/Michael Starks & Quaint Delusion /Henleys/ Mike Wayock (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
Grampire w/Graveyard Groupies/Story Mode (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Country
Tobacco Road (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Straight No Chaser (RP Funding Center, Lakeland) INFO
Americana
Jenu Six & The Old Souls (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor) INFO
Hip-hop
[Beatsnchill] J-Dilla Night w/B8TA/Andrew Jamen/Gat$/Patrick Hughes/Apolleaux/Raul the Fool/HMTWN (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
This article appears in Nov 15-22, 2018.