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✔️= Critic's Pick
Nina w/Parallels/Moondragon/Shadowrun Brothers After opening for acts like Erasure and Monarchy, Berlin-born, London-based synthwave producer Nina headlines a set supporting a new album (Sleepwalking, released in March). Fubar gets a double dose of musical internationals thanks to synth-pop trio Parallels, which arrives from Toronto after having spent some time on the road with bands like Florence + The Machine, Yelle and Timecop1983. (Fubar, St. Petersburg)INFO
✔️ The Mercury Program w/Unwed Sailor The Mercury Program’s 2002 album, A Data Learn the Language, has aged impeccably, and on Thursday the mighty Gainesville instrumental-rock outfit kicks off a tour that celebrates a reissue which finds the effort remastered, repackaged and sounding even better than it did 16 years ago. Seattle’s Unwed Sailor opens the show, and a Q&A with Mercury Program guitarist Tom Reno is available via cltampa.com/music. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Shawn Mullins The jab on a Thursday-night soft-rock one-two punch is this solo set from “Lullaby” songwriter Shawn Mullins, who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Soul’s Core by super-duper re-issuing the album with brand new full-band and solo acoustic versions of each of the album’s 13 songs. “The way we’re playing these songs live and stretching them out, people seem to get totally blown away with it,” the 50-year-old said in a release. “So I thought, let’s put that on the record.” (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City)INFO
Daughtry And the cross on that soft-rock one-two? Chris Daughtry. Yeah, he’s in a hard rock band, but the 38-year-old fourth-place finisher from Season 5 of American Idol is a big pile of mush, especially on “As You Are” from his 2018 album Cage to Rattle. “[My wife] brought me these lyrics and I was in the kitchen,” Daughtry told the HollywoodLife podcast. “I started crying. Like, it affected me so hard.” Daw. (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg)INFO
Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening Jason Bonham — the son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980 — may have been forced to change the name of his band as his dad’s band stirs the pot on a potential project, but this show is a chance to see the kid use old video footage, iconic Zeppelin art and close to two dozen classic Led Zepp cuts to keep the spirit of dad and his bandmates’ classic-rock legacy alive. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)INFO
Nathan Gray w/Jack O’Shea/Wolf-Face/Love Songs For Junkies This show will probably sell out, and for good reason. For starters, it’s happening within the confines of Fringe District record shop Planet Retro. The bill also finds members of well-known punk bands (BoySetsFire vocalist Nathan Gray; Bayside lead guitarist Jack O’Shea) playing acoustic sets alongside unplugged performances from long-running, well-loved Bay area acts Wolf-Face and Love Songs For Junkies. (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg)INFO
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This article appears in Nov 8-15, 2018.