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✔️= Critic's Pick
✔️ Moon Hooch It’s been five years since a debut full-length introduced Moon Hooch to a legion of nu-jazz fans, and the Brooklyn-based trio driven by two horns and a drummer is coming right off the summer festival circuit and into clubs for the fall all in the name of supporting a new EP, Light It Up, plus a series of special 7-inch releases featuring singles and live versions from the effort. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Jonathan Davis w/Birthday Massacre/Julien-K Korn frontman Jonathan Davis is out on the road just months after the accidental death of his estranged wife Deven Davis, and don’t be surprised if fans try to lift the hard-rock singer and songwriter up throughout this headlining set. “It’s what I do, man. It’s how I deal with things that go on in my life,” Davis recently said about being back on tour. “Out here is my therapy – playing for people is my therapy.” (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
✔️The Holy Terror Album Release w/Vetnough John Nowicki officially releases his new solo album The Holy Terror (And Other Diversions) in grand style at this free gig where the Tampa songwriter will be joined by a band that includes composer Melissa Grady, trumpeter Kenny Pullin, bassist Peter Nuffer, guitarist Scott Miller plus Troy Cedeno and Holy Terror producer Owen Meats. Weirdo Americana, jazz, metal and outlaw country all rolled into one beautiful set. (Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Elizabeth A. Baker St. Petersburg new renaissance artist Elizabeth A. Baker debuts a new piece, “repetition_deviation@hesitation.reality05812,” and plays the work of Nathan Corder, Gabrielle Cerberville and Brittany Green as part of a solo piano recital that challenges listeners to break out of traditional listening patterns and get lost in the show’s sea of overtones and harmonics. Donations accepted. (First Presbyterian Church, St. Petersburg) INFO
Capitol Steps If the prospect of an unexpected red tide at the midterms has you gritting your teeth, then you may want to secure a ticket for this pre-election performance from political-musical-satire troupe Capitol Steps, which wants to Make America Grin Again with a 90-minute program that will skwer the most skewer-able, screwed up administration and legislature in history. (Hough Hall at The Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Ether w/Fuckin Lovers/Atrocitas/SPIT/The Virgin Birth Tampa hardcore duo The Virgin Birth plays its last show to kick off this gig that includes a set by a new St. Petersburg punk trio (Atrocitas), Philadelphia noisecore group Fuckin’ Lovers (touring in support of an ear-splitting September EP, ELECTRIC LOVER) and Ether, an impeccably brutal Fort Lauderdale experimental act whose 2017 album is probably filed under the doom or sludge metal category at your favorite out-of-the-box record shop. (Mojo Books & Records, Tampa) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Classical
Steinway Piano Series w/Marco Tezza (Barness Recital Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Florida Orchestra Goes Disney (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO
USF Percussion Ensemble (School of Music Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Straz Live! in the Park feat. Hamitunes (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Beth Wood (Safety Harbor Arts & Music Center, Safety Harbor) INFO
Erin Harkes (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
Krewe of Pandora Fundraiser for Florida Sheriff’s Youth Ranches w/The Clazmatics (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Lift Your Mood Music Fundraiser (Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
In Business (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
House of I w/Pool Tags/Freaky Deaky (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Blues/Funk
Betty Fox Band (The Ale & the Witch , St. Petersburg) INFO
Nalani & Josh (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Nov 1-8, 2018.