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✔️ Amy Ray w/Danielle Howle True, it’s not the Indigo Girls, but who cares? Amy Ray is coming to Ybor City and will have a full band in tow — and the extra help just might be needed on the day after the election. The 54-year-old songwriter has a new album — Holler, which “reflects the sensibilities of a self-proclaimed ‘radical left-wing dyke’ living in a small conservative town in northern Georgia,” according to Billboard — and its first single (“Sure Feels Good Anyway”) is the perfect kind of rootsy, country-leaning tune we could use after a rough campaign season. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
FLQ w/Perse/Thorn/Metamorphosis Toronto punk band FLQ is joined by St. Petersburg group Perse plus some grind-goths and d-beat punks from Tampa (Thorn, Metamorphosis) for this loud midweek show at St. Petersburg DIY spot Lucky You Tattoo. All ages, per usual, and it’s $8 at the door. (Lucky You Tattoo, St. Petersburg) INFO
WQYK Guitar Pull w/Dustin Lynch/Dylan Scott/Cam/Trent Harmon/Mitchel Tenpenny/Riley Green If country music radio tires you out, then try and love it again with this out-of-the-box (or should we say, “out-of-the-boot”) show that finds some of pop-country’s up-and-coming stars playing unplugged and in the round. Nashville is a songwriter town, and this is a chance to see the ones responsible for the stuff you see on CMT do what they do best in a stripped-back, intimate setting. (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Freeman’s Dead w/Gino & The Goons/Postcard Scene Freeman’s Dead is a long ways from home (Long Beach, California), but the four-pack of psychedelic blues-rock wild boys is in good company on Hump Day when Tampa garage-rock outfit Gino and the Goons and Postcard Scene (the punk and hardcore trio formerly known as Porno Party) join the bill at this Seminole Heights record shop show. (Microgroove, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Ed Sheeran w/LAUV/Snow Patrol Oh how times have changed. Ed Sheeran once opened for Snow Patrol at Jannus Live in 2012, but now Sheeran (who is reportedly worth close to $120M, according to a new list published in the U.K.) has invited the Irish rock band to open for him in front of potentially 50,000 fans at Raymond James Stadium. Sheeran’s last gig in town was in front of just 15,000 at Tampa’s Amalie Arena, so we’re excited to see that the venue sold out for this one. (Raymond James Stadium, Tampa) SOLD OUT
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ALSO PLAYING
Stick to Your Guns w/Emmure/Wage War (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
Zachary Bornheimer Quintet (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
Claiborne Shepard (Orbit 19, Holiday) INFO
Whole Damn Mess (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
rostfang w/20 Watt Tombstone/Maness Bros./El Coyote (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Nov 1-8, 2018.