Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel w/Infinite Third/Gullwing If you’re thinking stiff concert recital, then let it go. First off, Gullwing (who released a new LP last week) will shred your ears off. Second, you haven’t seen Scott Burland and Frank Schultz marry the weird ideas in their minds using lap steel and theremin. The latter is an eerie sounding instrument played without touch (imagine the left and right hands manipulating frequency and volume) and the former is actually an old Airline six-string lap steel that Schultz uses to guide Burland as they create sonic pulses, tones, drones and textures that swoon and scream to create literal sound art that you won’t soon forget (or regret) hearing. Billy Mays III’s Infinite Third project opens the show. Listen to 10 from Schultz and Burland here. (Studio@620, St. Petersburg) INFO
Umphrey’s McGee w/Big Something Here’s your chance, do the Umph. Midwestern magicians of the jam want you to ride that Zonkey and take a few sips of their Bay area-brewed beer (Rock Brothers Brewing’s Nothing Too Fancy Pale Ale) with them at this outdoor show in downtown St. Pete. North Carolina six-piece Big Something open the show. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
Acoustic BBQ w/Shae Krispinsky/Will Quinlan Songwriters should command your full attention, and these two performing at New World Brewery’s weekly Acoustic BBQ session will certainly do that. Shae Krispinsky is the Bay area’s resident songwriter bibliophile (with a cat-rapper alter ego), and Will Quinlan is our storied, stoic and bearded bard of solemnity. Read our August 2016 profile of Quinlan here. (New World Brewery, Ybor City) INFO
Sunshine & Bullets w/Polar Summer (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Bike Night w/DJ Fuego (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Joose (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Psych Chillerz (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Apr 20-27, 2017.