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✔️ The Struts w/Spirit Animal The Struts would’ve stolen the show at the band’s last Bay area appearance, but opening up for the Foo Fighters at a 20,000 capacity shed is a tall order (Dave Grohl did call the English glam-rock revivalists “the best band Foo Fighters has ever played with,” so there’s that). With a new album just under two weeks away, charismatic frontman Luke Spiller brings his band to a surprisingly still-not-sold-out Orpheum gig where Brooklyn rock and roll quartet Spirit Animal opens the show. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
REVIEW
In Tampa, Dave Grohl lets 19,500 fans live their Foo Fighters fantasy (w/photos + setlist)
Foundation X DJ Hurley CD Release w/Jon Ditty/Mike Mass/Acoupstix A free, all-ages hip-hop show also serves as a send-off for Bay area rapper Foundation, who is headed for Japan after his project with Swiss-born producer DJ Hurley releases a new album, More Than A Small Piece, following opening sets by Mike Mass and Acoupstix. (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
✔️ Hypoluxo w/MTVH1N1/Supergold Brooklyn-based psych-pop quartet Hypoluxo brings a 17-date fall tour to St. Petersburg for a free show at Green Bench in support of a new album, Running On Fence (released last month), where frontman Samuel Jacob Cogen leads his band through half an hour’s worth of dreamy indie-rock. A Ft. Lauderdale rock band, Supergold, opens the show along with weirdo Tampa pop band MTVH1N1. (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
Emo Night Tampa Presents Photo Fire w/Wave Coast/Charles Irwin Emo Night’s role as an incubator for up-and-coming punk, indie and emo bands adds another notch to its belt when this Sunday-night show welcomes a trio of locals including extremely fun, up-and-coming Tampa band Charles Irwin whose 2017 track “a sad song about a girl i no longer know” has racked up nearly 500K plays on Soundcloud. “I have a love hate relationship with this song, because it captivates me and gives me the goosebumps,” is how one Reddit user framed their reaction to the tune, “but at the same time it reminds me of my ex and how we can never work it out once we’re together it’s a catastrophe.” Free and all-ages, too. (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
USF Faculty Recital w/Svetozar Ivanov (School of Music Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Shari Puorto Band (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Betty Fox Band (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Ol' Dirty Sundays w/ DJ Mell Starr (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Pan Classics w/Randy Constan (Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa) INFO
Elyse Buckley (Mermaid Tavern, Tampa) INFO
Acme Jazz Garage (Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
Rebekah Pulley and the Reluctant Prophets (Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Head2Head Trivia: Hip Hop Edition (Shuffle, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Oct 11-18, 2018.