✔️ = Critic's Pick

Rickie Lee Jones Old heads from the beat generation should come out for this one featuring two-time Grammy-winning poet and songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, whose journey has taken the 63-year-old from Los Angeles coffee houses to best-of lists by VH1 (she’s No. 30 on the network’s list of 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll) and NPR (Jones’s 1981 album Pirates is No. 40 on the radio station’s 150 Greatest Albums list). (Murray Studio Theatre at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO

98 Degrees Holiday Show A new holiday album from Cincinnati boy band 98 Degrees is called Let It Snow, but 98 Degrees’ Drew Lachey knows there won’t be any of that kind of white stuff when he lands in St. Pete for a Mahaffey Theater show that will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of the quartet’s debut album for Motown. (Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO

D.R.I. w/Kaustic This group of Houston skate punks came up in the same era as Suicidal Tendencies and Corrosion of Conformity, but managed to fuse a whole lot of hardcore into an aesthetic that earned the band enough fans to follow it into a new sound that incorporated elements of thrash, too. An offensive line’s worth of past members has passed through D.R.I’s ranks, and D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) hasn’t released a proper album since ‘95, but founding members Spike Cassidy and Kurt Brecht are still in the band, so that should be enough to get fans out to this one. (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO

✔️ Cannibal Corpse w/Power Trip/Gatecreeper/Arizona Death Dealers Tampa’s Morrisound Recording is where Cannibal Corpse recorded its first three LPs — Eaten Back To Life, Butchered at Birth and Tomb of the Mutilated — and the Buffalo-based quintet hopes to show its oldest fans that new album Red Before Black (released last month via Metal Blade) has evolved its death metal pioneering sound without losing any of the extreme and violent themes (songs titled “Meat Hook Sodomy” are bound to catch attention) that made it infamous 30 years ago. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO

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A pair of Tampa screenings for a Jawbreaker documentary are almost sold-out — but there's a St. Pete one happening, too

Jawbreaker: Don’t Break Down Screening (Night One) Seminole Heights record shop Microgroove is staging two (~~probably~~ definitely sold out by the time you read this) screenings of a critically acclaimed documentary about revered ’90s emo band Jawbreaker, and if you don’t get in, then consider making the drive to St. Pete next week when Planet Retro hosts a screening of its own on December 16. UPDATE: Both Tampa screenings are completely sold-out. (Microgroove, Tampa) SOLD OUT

✔️ R.Lum.R. w/Betty Dawl/Ari Chi Just over a decade ago, after enrolling in a performing arts high school in Sarasota, Reginald Lamar Williams, Jr., bought a Yamaha CG101 and started playing classical guitar. His hard work earned him a scholarship to Florida State, and he even released a few EPs under the name Reggie Williams. His switch to R&B (and a name change to R.Lum.R.) has been a game-changer, earning the 27-year-old singer late-night talk show appearances (he played a hit song, “Frustrated,” on Kimmel this summer), the attention of Rolling Stone (the magazine called him an “artist you need to know”) and several millions of Spotify streams. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO

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Photos: Green Jelly at The Local 662 — 01.29.17

Green Jelly w/Low Season/Bit Lip If you’ve never experienced the punk rock puppet show that is Green Jelly, then you might want to leave your inhibitions at home and make it out to Fubar, where Bill Manspeaker will bring his rotating cast of players to St. Pete for a night of childish humor not fit for prudish people who want to stand around with their arms crossed all night. If you’re at home reading this and thinking we’re assholes for even telling you how to live, then turn on the Jelly’s breakthrough 1991 album Cereal Killer and lighten up. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO

Mirian Conti Juilliard alum and NYC-based pianist Mirian Conti brings a vibrant and playful, yet still technical, style to St. Petersburg College where she’ll work through a solo set that’ll tackle tangos and mazurkas (the latter is a Polish folk dance) composed by Mompou, Poulenc, Schifrin and Chopin. (St. Petersburg College Music Center, St. Petersburg) INFO

Bowzer’s Holiday Rock ‘N’ Roll Party w/Herman’s Hermits/Gary Puckett and the Union Gap/Bill Haley’s Original Comets/Joey Dee/Sha Na Na/Bowzer & the Stingrays Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits and Gary Puckett of the Union Gap headline a blue-haired rock and roll holiday party that also includes a reunion from Woodstock alums Sha Na Na and others for a nostalgic night hosted by everyone’s favorite greaser (and ex-VH1 VJ) Jon “Bowzer” Bauman. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater) INFO

Passafire w/The Werks/The Ries Brothers By now, longtime observers of the Bay area rock scene have at least heard about the Ries Brothers. The duo is a staple at the Clearwater Jazz Holiday, has been on tour with Chicago and plays its brand of blues, funk and reggae-influenced rock for anyone who’ll listen. In May, the boys — Charlie and Kevin Ries — are headed out to play California Roots Festival with Rebelution, Steel Pulse, Slightly Stoopid and Chronixx, but before that they’ll play a hometown set in support of a brand new album, The View From the Outside, which was mostly produced in St. Petersburg by Ted Bowne of Georgia reggae-rock band Passafire, which is headlining this free Jannus Live show. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO

✔️ Forbidden Christmas: A Naughty Cabaret w/Una Voce Gay Men’s Chorus of Tampa Bay If you were offended by the gay Santa CL ran on the cover a few weeks back, then that little gay boy closeted inside of you is gonna have a heart attack when he reads about this ribald, rousing and naughty cabaret with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Tampa Bay, Una Voce. They’ll playfully skewer some holiday tunes while inspiring you to heat up your own Yule log when you get back home. (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO

Hard Act To Follow w/Olivia/Shevonne Philidor Bay area songwriter Alex Harris continues to give back to his community with the launch of "Hard Act To Follow," a monthly show at Hideaway Café where he'll showcase local and professional talent from the nonprofit Arts Conservatory for Teens (ACT) that he founded in the hopes of finding and developing talent alongside building self-esteem and opening new pathways for young people. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO

Nicholas Roberts w/Leon Majcen/Taylor Raynor/Olivia Romano Orlando is quite a ways from Tennessee, but songwriter Nicholas Roberts is delaying his drive north by bringing his tour west to St. Pete for a show at the yoga shoppe. Roberts — who has landed songs on networks like MTV, CNN and Fox — has been releasing a new song every month for most of 2018, and he'll have an EP featuring the songs available at this show where donations will be taken if you want to enjoy beer, wine and food. Learn more and even more. (Body Electric Yoga Company, St. Petersburg) INFO

ALSO PLAYING

EDM/DJ

Bass & Babes (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO

The Bashment w/DJ Mellohype (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO

DJ Kiger (Community Cafe, St. Petersburg) INFO

Classical/Chorale

Patel Conservatory presents Holiday Music Concert (David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO

Tribute/Cover

Greg Billings Band (Buckets Tavern & Tap, Tampa) INFO

Peace of Woodstock (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO

Blues

TC Carr & Bolts of Blue (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO