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✔️ = critic's pick
✔️ Band of Horses Read news stories about Band of Horses and you’ll catch the bit about longtime guitarist Tyler Ramsey and bassist Bill Reynolds recently leaving the band after 10 years of service. On paper, the departures seem like a blow to frontman Ben Bridwell, who toured behind three excellent albums of rootsy, reverbed-the-fuck-out folk-rock with the pair. This show — which finds Bridwell and longtime members Ryan Monroe and Creighton Barrett joined by an old friend (Matt Gentling, who played bass for BOH in 2007) — will be a nice test to see if the new lineup can recreate the warmth and sylvan charm that’s earned the band legions of fans over the last decade. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Soundtrack to a Revolution Digital Release w/S.T.A.R./Rocksteady@8/DJ Blenda Futurebeat, soul, funk, jazz and a whole mess of drum sequences come together on Friday when Jon Shea brings three years of work to life at this EP release party. “Giant Steps,” the effort’s opening cut, is also its origin song and was born of Shea and S.T.A.R. collaborator Stanley Steema’s attempt to flip the title track on John Coltrane’s criminally overlooked Atlantic debut on its ass while also re-inventing it as a pop song accessible for listeners of all abilities. Ambitious. And Shea has promised that the live performance will reach for such great heights, too. (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ The Main Squeeze w/Leisure Chief/Ella Jet and Future Soul This will be The Main Squeeze’s third show at Crowbar in the last year and a half, but this time frontman Corey Frye — a hulk of a man with a gigantic smile and even bigger voice — has a new album to share with fans. If horn-inundated lead single “Sweat” is any indication, then expect an even groovier, much funkier version of the rockin’ soul Frye & Co. peddled on a 2012 self-titled full-length and 2015’s Randy Jackson-produced follow up, Mind Your Head. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
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Photos: The Main Squeeze, Kaleigh Baker, The Real Clash and Groove Orient at Crowbar — 10.07.16
✔️ The Florida Orchestra presents Carmina Burana Queens rapper Nas was just in town at Jannus Live, but the sonic inspiration for his 1999 hit “Hate Me Now” (which borrows from “‘O Fortuna”) gets some shine this weekend care of the Florida Orchestra, which will tackle the 1937 composition that turned Carl Orff into a straight-up immortal. We’re not sure how Madison Leonard is going to make it through three performances this weekend (the production hits Mahaffey and Ruth Eckerd, on Saturday and Sunday, respectively), but the young Washington National Opera soprano will be damn near legendary ‘round here if she pulls it off, too. Michael Tippett’s “Ritual Dances” from The Midsummer Marriage are also on the program. (David A. Straz Center for Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
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Photos: Nas, happy fans, rule the world at Jannus Live in St. Pete — 09.21.17
✔️ Johnny Mile and the Kilometers Album Release and Jeremy Treviño Solo Art Exhibit w/The Woolly Bushmen/Blestian St. Pete’s alleged butt-graffiti mastermind shows off more seriously good, kind of mind-bending illustrations at this, his second-ever solo exhibit, which also happens to be an album release for Sunshine City trio Johnny Mile and the Kilometers, whose straightahead strain of rock and roll is meant to be played at maximum volume. Angry organ-wielding Orlando outfit Woolly Bushmen opens the show along with wife-and-husband duo Blestian. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Grant Peeples Legend has it that Grant Peeples — a 60-year-old songwriter who learned how to walk, talk, ride a bike and tie his shoes in Tallahassee — was the first guy to install a flushing toilet on some small island off the coast of Nicaragua. We’re still waiting on verification from the toilet, but Peeples, who peppers his warm folk tunes with enough vivid imagery to write a book, can tell you all about it at this intimate listening room gig. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Rock
Beerwolf Album Release & Killer Kegger w/Porno Party/SPAR/Sun Signs (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Legendary Voices of Rock w/Mike Reno (Loverboy), John Cafferty (Beaver Brown Band), Robby Steinhardt (Kansas) and Charlie Huhn (Foghat). Benefits Jan Stephenson's Crossroads Foundation. (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
John Winkler (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO
Emarosa w/A Lot Like Birds/Jule Vera (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
Awkward Age w/Debt Neglector/Nervous Girls (Microgroove, Tampa) INFO
Fubar 8-year anniversary w/Mosquito Teeth/ShadowRun Bros. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Classical/Chorale
St. Petersburg Opera: Evenings/Mornings With the Maestro (Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg) INFO
An Evening of Polish Music w/The Connoisseur Chamber Artists (St. Petersburg College Gibbs Campus, St. Petersburg) INFO
Americana/Folk
The Underhill Family Orchestra (Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
Concerts in the Park w/The Horny Toads (Horan Park, St. Pete Beach) INFO
Soul
Alex Harris: I Got Soul (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
Singer-songwriter
J.T. Brown (Council Oak Lounge at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Tampa) INFO
Kayla Korpics (5 Star Dive Bar, Tampa) INFO
Blues
JP Soars and the Red Hots (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Tribute
Alter Eagles w/CSNY Tribute (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Oct 5-12, 2017.