The weekend comes to a close with some rather appealing live music offerings led by a another high quality hip hop talent to follow last night's Curren$y blow-out. Check out a breakdown of what's happening this Sun., June 7 below.
Blueprint with Supastition, DJ Raregroove, Rival, Jon Ditty, BC An underappreciated indie hip hop artist from Ohio who’s been active since 1999, Blueprint has collabed with RJD2 in Soul Position, is counted as one-half of Greenhouse (with Illogic), and maintains an active solo career as well. He returns to Dunedin a year after his last performance behind King No Crown, a fourth full-length that dropped in April and finds the producer/rapper’s conscious verses, precisely-worded flow and unexpected rhyme schemes paying tribute to fallen artists like Dilla and Eyedea and offering reflections on hip hop, power, life, revolution and other topics over pulsing and grooving, out-side-the-box production. Back up from N.C. emcee Kam Moye (aka Supastition) and LA’s DJ Rare Groove along with several high-quality local hip hop acts. (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin)
Ol' Dirty Sundays with Sammy Needlz He lends his voice, brains and song selections to a Thursday show that he produces and co-hosts with DJ Statik Selektah on SiriusXM’s Shade45 – the uncensored hip-hop channel created by Eminem with 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Lil' Wayne. Sammy Needlz also spends a lot of time digging deep into his crates to spin sets in clubs around his NYC homebase, and his live mixes touch on anything from golden era hip hop classics by Mobb Deep and A Tribe Called Quest to modern verse-flingers and EDM names like Schoolboy Q and Diplo. This should be a very fun edition of ODS, as held down by residents Casper and LeSage. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
Delta Moon CD Release Party While they hail from Atlanta, Delta Moon has carved a niche out in the greater Southeast, and Florida in particular is a stronghold that warmly welcomes the quartet’s crunchy fried blues and swamp-rambling roots rock. Leader Tom Gray has a roadworn-dusty vocal quality that evokes ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons but with a looser, leisurely drawl, and fine-honed chops on slide guitar, both electric and lap steel styles. New album Low Down dropped last month and includes nine originals in addition to covers like the greasy stompin’ title track by Tom Waits and Bob Dylan’s “Down in the Flood.” (Market on 7th, Ybor City)
Northern Faces with Let It Happen Upstate New York indie rock outfit Northern Faces hits town behind their eponymous full-length debut and first release on Equal Vision Records, songs like lead single “Alone and Forgotten” proving heartsore but at the same time heartening with catchy refrains and bright guitar melodies. Tour support from Cincinnati pop-rock quartet Let It Happen. (New World Brewery, Ybor City)
ALSO TONIGHT
Airsickness w/Anew/INFINITYONHIGH!/Up From Here Orpheum, Ybor City
David Smith Trio Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa
Jim Chambers’ Music Box New World Brewery, Ybor City
Eric Prydz Amphitheatre, Ybor City
Herbie D and The Dangermen Sacred Grounds Coffeehouse, Tampa
Sunday Music Series: Sara Rose w/Dean Johanesen The Independent Bar And Café, Tampa
Sunday Funday w/Stadelman Brothers feat. Fil Pate Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2015.