A screenshot from singer-songwriter MaKenzie's YouTube video "Velvet (Live at EastWest Studios)." Captured in a medium close-up shot inside a dark recording studio, MaKenzie sings passionately with her eyes closed into a silver studio condenser microphone fitted with a black pop filter. She wears a black long-sleeved shirt over a patterned top, stacked layered necklaces, and short wavy auburn hair with bangs, softly lit by ambient studio lighting.
A screenshot from MaKenzie’s YouTube video ‘Velvet (Live at EastWest Studios).’ Credit: MaKenzie / YouTube

There was a moment in time when DJ Knox’s WLCM2KNXVLL party was the place to be. A lot’s changed since the party’s founding a decade ago, and the revival finds Knox & co. heading to Orpheum in north Tampa for a throwdown where a lineup of heavy hitters starts spinning well before the sun goes down.

Kentucky-born R&B songwriter MaKenzie (who counts incumbent St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch among her followers) plays a special set.

Tickets to see Knox, DJ Keys, Big Willie, DJ Donnie Luv, and MaKenzie at Orpheum in Tampa on Sunday, Aug. 23 are still available and start at $20.97.

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This article appears in August 20 – 26, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...