✔️ = Critic's Pick
Emo Night Brooklyn Not the Emo Night Tampa party you’ve come to know and love down the street at the newly re-branded First Chance Last Chance bar, but a traveling interaction of a tour also focused on bringing mostly third-wave emo bangers to clubs across America. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
BOYS DON'T CRY
The Crate Brothers celebrate two years of Emo Night Tampa
Slander SoCal EDM bros Derek Andersen and Scott Land are the brains behind brawny trap-based club bangers like the remix of Showtek’s “We Like To Party,” but the boys have respected their rise to international stardom by trying to evolve a little. Just listen to “Welcome to the Fire,” a new dubstep and metal track with Sullivan King that’ll have the front barriers at The Ritz lined with dudes double clutching the rails while headbanging until their brains pop out. (Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
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Photos: Betty Dawl, Ari Chi, Rayza The Kid and more throw down for Wine & Rhyme at Anise — 06.05.17
Shevonne w/Betty Dawl/Nova Cane/The Garden Club Shevizzle (aka Shevonne Marie Philidor if you’re looking through old yearbooks) has a new video to share, and the Tampa-based, music-scholarship winning guitarist and pop-songwriter will release “For My City” at this Skipper’s show alongside another one of the area’s more unique music makers (producer/rapper Betty Dawl). If you recognize Philidor from her appearances on America’s Most Talented Kids, America’s Got Talent or American Idol, then be ready to be impressed by the growth she shows off at this gig backed by her band. Neo-soul duo The Garden Club opens after a set of poetry by Nova Cane. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
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Review: Et Cultura’s musical weekend was a pioneering triumph that too many of you totally missed
✔️ The Golden Pelicans w/The Sh-Booms/Gino & The Goons Look here to see why we’re stoked on the return of Orlando rock band The Golden Pelicans, but also know that we’re hyped to be recipients of another visit from City Beautiful soul-garage act The Sh-Booms which was just in St. Pete to open for Talib Kweli and The Budos Band as part of the Et Cultura festival. The band — led by ex-Justin Timberlake backup singer Brenda Radney — is getting ready to join producer Simon Palombi (The Woolly Bushmen) in cutting a new album to tape (literally, it’s all analogue), so this is a good chance to Sh-Boom before the band disappears for a minute. You won’t have to worry about rowdy Sh-Booms bassist Al Ruiz needing any help to get Fernet-wasted at this one, but you may want to buy a t-shirt in case he needs bail money the next morning. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Singer-songwriter
Tyler Costanzo (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Classical
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Live In Concert (Carol Morsani Hall at David A. Straz Center for Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
Hip-hop
Nightmare In Winter.VHS w/Chevy Gurl/Cola$$al/Tim Apex/Mac11/Wally Clark/more (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Americana/Folk
Oak Hay (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor) INFO
The Woodwork (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Blues/Funk
Shawn Brown (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
Babyblu w/The Young Something/IOH (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
All Day Tuck (Ella's Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO
The Actual Situation w/DemonFuck/The Damnsels/Kimsta Bombs (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
DJs/EDM/Experimental
ZFG Presents: Submerged feat. Sonority & Infinite Third (5 Star Dive Bar, Ybor City) INFO
Phantasma: Phantasma Final Friday w/DJ Nemesis/DJ Maus (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Tribute/Cover
DJ MP Soup w/Lanny Z (Ferg’s Live, Tampa) INFO
The Ordeal (Buckets Grill & Tap) INFO
This article appears in Dec 28, 2017 – Jan 4, 2018.
