✔️ = Critics's Pick
✔️ New World Brewery Blowout w/Zillionaire/Will Quinlan/Auto! Automatic!!/Meatwound/Mike Mass/Lost Weekend Riviera Club/Fistful/Shae Krispinsky/Atlantic Oceans/The Burke Brothers/more Sadly, it’s finally here. The Bay area music community’s long goodbye to 22-year-old Ybor City venue New World Brewery arrives on Saturday, and so do close to two dozen of the area’s most beloved bands of the past (Atlantic Oceans, Zillionaire), present (Career, Mike Mass, Will Quinlan) and future (Lost Weekend Riviera Club, a collaboration between Billy Summer, The Florida Kilos, and Geri X). Two stages will help the show shuffle along, and a $10 donation for Hurricane Irma relief will be collected at the doors, which open at 4 p.m. Read more about the party here. (New World Brewery, Ybor City) INFO
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✔️ The Woolly Bushmen w/Little Sheba & the Shamans Downtown Tampa dive The Hub has always sported a retro feel, so it’ll be cool to have music that matches when Orlando’s Woolly Bushmen come out to play their bearded, angry organ-driven rock and roll and share a brand new LP. Ari Little will lead Little Sheba & the Shamans through an opening set at this free show. (The Hub, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Buffyfest w/The Florida Björkestra The Palladium goes full Buffy the Vampire Slayer when the Florida Björkestra takes on music from the series while fans (cosplayed up and otherwise) make their way around the venue, which will be dressed up in Sunnydale’s finest before the 20-piece, 12-member ensemble joins eight vocalists for one of the Bay area music calendar’s finest events. (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
BuffyFest After-Party Buffy would’ve wanted you to go on a bender, so Iberian Rooster is giving fans a chance when it transforms its own basement into a Buffy-verse of its own while slinging themed cocktails like Dark Willow and Slayer’s Blood. (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Skipper’s 37th Anniversary w/Come Back Alice/Home Team All-Stars/T-Bone Hamilton/Lint Rollers/Mike Davis Project/more Hot damn. Skipper’s Smokehouse — north Tampa’s long-running, oak-covered fortress of barefooted good times & tunes — is approaching the four decade mark. To celebrate its 37th anniversary (and its surviving Irma) the venue will open at noon before a lineup of a dozen yet-to-be-announced bands takes the stage. Yes, this is the same day as New World Brewery’s farewell show, but early doors mean the most faithful may be able to hit both. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Emo Nite Brooklyn: Tampa Not a band. Not DJs, either. Plain and simple, this is the touring iteration of a party devoted to all things emo. Not to be confused with Tampa’s own Emo Night, which happens on the first weekend of every month at Ybor City’s First Chance, Last Chance bar. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
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Cardi B w/DJ C-Nasty/Kutmaster You already know the drill for these late-night club appearances from today’s latest, greatest hip-hop artists, but this one just might be worth waiting around for since it finds “Bodak Yellow” singer Cardi B arriving in the midst of what’s been an incredible year for the Bronx-born emcee. (AJA Channelside, Tampa) INFO
Shaggy If you were someone who missed Shaggy at Tampa’s Summer of Rum festival (it wasn’t you, we know), then your chance to see “Mr. Boombastic” in the flesh once again happens after the Tampa Bay Rowdies takeon the Charlotte Independence in St. Pete. The show is included in the price of a game ticket, and more information is available at rowdiessoccer.com. (Al Lang Stadium, St. Petersburg) INFO
Lynch Mob Grammy-winning metal band Dokken doesn’t have guitarist George Lynch in its lineup anymore, but that hasn’t stopped the 62-year-old hard rocker from getting his own rocks off with Lynch Mob. Perennially ranked as one of the world’s best guitarists, expect Lynch & co. to lean heavily on the band’s new album, The Brotherhood (released on September 8), at this show. Hardcore fans will want to make their way across the bridge two days later when Lynch gives a guitar clinic at Tampa’s Replay Guitar Exchange. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO
SPF Weekend 3 St. Pete Arts Alliance’s SPF Weekend 3 is filled with activity (and we’ve detailed the Palladium’s Buffyfest above), but fans looking for even more fun should also make plans to see the Florida Orchestra’s sampler performances (think small horn and string arrangements in intimate quarters), Vinoy Park’s jazz experience and a marching band extravaganza. Details and schedules are available via stpeteartsalliance.org.
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This article appears in Sep 21-28, 2017.