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✔️ = Critic's Pick
The Absence Listening Party It’s already been a couple of weeks since nationally revered Tampa metalcore outfit The Absence released its latest album (A Gift For The Obsessed), and this listening session is a gift for fans who want to have a spin while the band hangs out in the same room. (The Bricks, Ybor City) INFO
Serotonic If you’re looking to indulge in some jazz on Friday the 13th, Serotonic has your fix. The Bay area band will scare up a mix of funk and jazz as it takes over Ella’s and shares grooves with diners. The group’s latest release — Sound It Out — has been making waves locally and should help in washing down chef Suz’s many delicious offerings. (Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa) INFO —RF
COOL JAZZ
WUSF's Mike Cornette tells us why jazz is cooler than ever
✔️ Friday Concerts in the Park w/Dick Rumore’s Jazz Cellar Orchestra It’s been quite a while since folks could wander over to Ybor Square and catch Dick Rumore in the Jazz Cellar. Thankfully the bandleader and Bay area jazz icon still gigs regularly. This one finds Rumore under the big bandshell at Tampa’s Water Works Park for a night of no-cover, pet-friendly jazz. Bring your own lawn chair, dad. (Water Works Park, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Yes Darling Ryan Montbleau is no stranger to St. Pete’s Craftsman House gallery, but this time the singer-songwriter has joined forces with Hayley Jane for Yes Darling, a playful project whose back-and-forth, witty lyrics (listen to “Misplaced Anger”) would slay in the theater setting, too. It’s a tight squeeze at the Central Avenue spot, so call (727) 323-2787 to see if promoters can accommodate. (Craftsman House Gallery, St. Petersburg) INFO
The Wailers Bob Marley’s albums with The Wailers are some of the best-selling records of all time, but two versions of the The Wailers make it hard for fans to figure out what they’re getting into. This one hitting Jannus features three Barretts (Aston Jr. on drums, singer Josh and original Wailer bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett), keyboardist Tyrone Downie and guitarists Junior Marvin and Donald Kinsey. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
FLY THAT FLAG
Interview: Andy McCluskey on the postmodern cool of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
✔️ Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Along with Depeche Mode, Bronski Beat, Heaven 17, The Communards and other keyboard-based acts, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) was one of the standout synth-centric bands to emerge from the new wave and New Romantic scenes of the early-to-mid-’80s. While many of those classic acts left their legacies on stages years ago, OMD has produced a steady stream of frankly hip-sounding music since forming in Merseyside, England, 40 years ago. Read our interview with Andy McCluskey via cltampa.com/music. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO —Paul Catala
Southview The “Interstate 75” rock quartet will be slashing through a Friday the 13th set at The Bends in support of its latest EP Sunny Places For Shady People. The pop-punk outfit has been on fire in the past year, so don’t miss out on a chance to hear new hits on its first Florida “Make Or Break” tour stop. (The Bends, St Petersburg) INFO —Robb Ferdinand
Jake Miller Weston, Florida’s own Jake Miller looks to ignite the Orpheum as he arrives to support of his just-released Silver Lining album. Miller, 25, has a highly infectious sing-rap style that is poppy, yet vulnerable enough to get you thinking, and his hometown stop is just one on a spring tour that takes him up and down the east coast and through the Midwest. (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO —RF
Jucifer If Jake Miller’s pop-rap doesn’t fit into your bag, then we have another pick for you, and it’s also in Ybor City and just a few blocks away. Jucifer — Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood’s nomadic, two-piece sludge-metal band — tours hard and is is building its own wall of volume to melt faces on Friday night. For the uninitiated, bring earplugs as the pair works through a nearly 20-year-old catalog that kicked off with 1999’s Calling All Cars On the Vegas Strip. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO —RF
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ALSO PLAYING
Tribute/Cover/Theatre
April 12-14, Green Day's American Idiot (Jaeb Theatre at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
Peace (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Handsome Devil (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
I-Ruption Reggae Band (Smokin’ 19, St. Petersburg) INFO
Soul Circus Cowboys (Buckets Grill & Tap, Tampa) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Edwin McCain (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Kasondra Rose (The Independent Bar, St. Petersburg) INFO
So Far Sounds (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
Cormac Kavanagh (C.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Pop
Shoeless Soul (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Rock
Night Ranger (Acoustic) (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
DJ
O.M.D. Afterparty w/Sean and Tom Gold (The Castle, Ybor City) INFO
Brews and Bites w/DJ Elemental Soul (The Sail Pavilion, Tampa) INFO
Classical/Chorale
Luis Gonzalez (Studio@620, St. Petersburg) INFO
St. Petersburg College Piano Series w/Lincoln Mayorga (St. Petersburg College Music Center, St. Petersburg) INFO
USF Honors College Philharmonic (School of Music Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Suncoast Singers of Florida Concert: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Friends (Christ Presbyterian Church, Largo) INFO
Funk/Soul/Fusion
Ari & the Alibis (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Chello Holiday (Jazz House & Supper Club, Brandon) INFO
Blues
Doug Deming & the Jewel Tones (Ruby’s Elixir, St. Petersburg) INFO
Sean Chambers w/Allman Goldflies Band (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
EDM
#Friday w/Cookie Monsta (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Americana/Folk
Walter Parks (The Derry Down, Winter Haven) INFO
The Prestage Brothers (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
Nocturnus A.D. w/DeeDee Mao/Death Incarnate/more (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
April 13, Mikey Fiend Birthday Bash w/The Bad Katz/Pig Pen/Boney Fiend/Slade & the Wasters (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
This article appears in Apr 12-19, 2018.