Hovercar @ Crowbar Credit: Photo by Dave Decker

Tampa Bay’s live music weekend is here, and it’s once again stacked with a cornucopia of concerts across all genres (and cover costs). Have a look at this listing of shows curated by Creative Loafing Tampa Bay staff and contributors, and augmented with select gig from CL’s user-submitted Tampa Bay concert calendar.

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Thursday, Aug. 24

Clutch w/Giovannie and the Hired Guns/Mike Dillon (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
Mamba Beats: A Tribute to Perseverance (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
Mystery Skulls (Orpheum, Ybor City)
Los Cafres (Avalon Event Center, Tampa)

Friday, Aug. 25

Aurelio Voltaire (Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa)
Hawk Of the Town: Sorry Bard (Gallery 221 at Hillsborough Community College, Tampa)
Jask (Arts Club at Tampa Edition, Tampa)
Matt Walden w/Deb Ruby/Maude (Hooch and Hive, Tampa)
Pleasures w/Movie Props/Rogerthomas (The Bends, St. Petersburg)
Point 6 (Rooftop Tampa Edition, Tampa)
#Pound Friday: Champagne Drip (The Ritz, Ybor City)
TroyBoi (Armature Works, Tampa)

Saturday, Aug. 26

Audien (The Ritz, Ybor City)
Damon Fowler (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa)
Glass Chapel w/Draining Kiss/Sleeping Pills/Offerings (The Hub, Tampa)
Historic Kenwood’s Play Music On The Porch Day (Kenwood Historic District, St. Petersburg)
Jack Jallo Forever: A Celebration of Life w/Illuminate Me/Spider Inside Her/Madtown/Gillian Carter/more (Orpheum, Tampa)
Lionel Richie w/Earth, Wind & Fire (Amalie Arena, Tampa)
Muto (Rooftop Tampa Edition, Tampa)
Parker (Arts Club at Tampa Edition, Tampa)
Rob Zombie w/Alice Cooper/Ministry/Filter (Midflorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)
Rock and Roll Revival: The New Brutarians w/Gino & the Goons/Teen Cobra/Dave Reeder (Bayboro Brewing Co., St. Petersburg)

‘There is healing, and there is hope’: Tampa rock duo Hovercar lets listeners into its ‘Killing Jar’

Sunday, Aug. 27

Flo Rida (Hard Rock Event Center Pool at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)
Hovercar (The Gift Shop Tattooing Company, Tampa)
Kristopher James w/Songbird Shella (The Far Forest, Tampa)
Ol’ Dirty Sundays: MC Serch w/DJ Casper/DJ Fader/DJ Sandman(Crowbar, Ybor City)
Paul Gavin & Mosaic: Celebrating Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough Community College,Ybor City)

Tuesday, Aug. 29

Grey Day 2023: $uicideBoy$ w/Ghostmane/City Morgue/Sematary/Ramirez (Amalie Arena, Tampa)
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Live in Concert (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)

Thursday, Aug. 31

Ghost w/Amon Amarth (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)
Needtobreathe (Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa)

Also playing

Britney vs. Christina Drag Show Friday, Aug. 25. 7 p.m. $10. Floridian Social, St. Petersburg
Escape From The Zoo w/Holy Locust Friday, Aug. 25. 7 p.m. $15. Orpheum, Tampa RR
Quail Hollow w/Madwoman/Okay Kenedi/Roxy Windham Friday, Aug. 25, 7 p.m. $10. Shuffle, Tampa
Songbird Shella Friday, Aug. 25, 9 p.m. No cover. Ella’s American Folk Art Cafe, Tampa
Daniela Soledade: Deco Tropica Saturday, Aug. 26. 8 p.m. $25-$30. Hough Hall at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
Fil Pate Saturday, Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m. No cover. Biergarten at New World Brewery, Tampa
Surf Mesa Saturday, Aug. 26, Noon. $25. WTR Pool at Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas, Tampa
The Mystic Underground w/Offerings/Johnstonsons/DJ Winters Saturday, Aug. 26. 8 p.m. $13. Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
Ookay Saturday, Aug. 26. 10 p.m. $20-$25. TK Lounge, Tampa
Little Kintner Boys w/Bob Frierson Saturday, Aug. 26, 7 p.m. No cover. Shuffle, Tampa
Sunday Live Music Series: Matthew McCartney Sunday, Aug. 27, 6:30 p.m. No cover. Independent Bar and Cafe, Tampa
Dstr w/Cellmod/DJ Tom Gold Tuesday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m. $15, Music Hall at New World Brewery, Tampa
The Remix: A Shuffle Open Mic w/J.T. Brown Tuesday, Aug. 29, 8 p.m. No cover. Shuffle, Tampa