Look — the week is half over! Celebrate with some live music; here's what's happening on this Wed., July 15.
Plastic Pinks with Luxury Mane, Veiny Hands Did you know Sonic Graffiti former Dane Giordano is now pounding bass and howling backing vocals in Miami's garage rock outfit Plastic Pinks? Consider yourself informed, and since you now realize that a St. Pete native is involved, you should have even more of a reason to hit up this free Hump Day show, which finds the quintet joined by psych-fuzz hawkers Luxury Mane and scuzzy, raw-as-hell power trio Veiny Hands. (The Hub, downtown Tampa)
Love as Laughter with KDH Pretty cool to see so many bands coming through the Bends, and this Hump Day bill – a stop on the The “Miles of Smiles” tour – is a rather special one. Love as Laughter, the charming indie rock outfit helmed by singer-guitarist Sam Jayne (ex-Lync), is signed to Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace label, and rose to a mild buzz in the early-to-mid ‘00s with Pavement-evocative songs like “Dirty Lives” (released while they were on Sub Pop), though they lean more psychedelic and folk-loose lately ala the “LZY SLDR”/“Oasis” 7-inch single. Tourmates KDH do the psych rock thing, too, but with a Southern groove-licked appeal, tempo-changing pacing, from slow to supercharged and back, and occasional whistling that brightens everything up a bit. (The Bends, St. Petersburg)
Permanent Makeup, Round Eye, Mr. Clit & The Pink Cigarettes, Chris Barrows After the regularly scheduled BBQ Wednesday Acoustic Series presentation (this one featuring Austin folk-bluesman Mike McCarthy and the usual $5 plates), New Granada hosts a throwdown of righteous and raucous sounds. Andrew Silverstein called “Weak in the Knees” – the new track off a forthcoming LP from St. Pete-brewed No Wave rockers Permanent Makeup – “a two-and-a-half-minute middle finger to the notion of playing nice for the playlist-pumping masses.” Round Eye comes all the way from Shanghai, China with freaky, R&B-hued fast-chugging post-punk, New Jersey’s Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes have a gross name and equally gnarly, grimy punk-garage sounds, and Chris Barrows is a local legend who you may know from his tenure in punk groups like Pink Lincolns and Jackie Papers. (New World Brewery, Ybor City)
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2015.