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✔️ = Critic's Pick
THURSDAY OCTOBER 02
✔️ Rock the Park w/Fre$h P/Radarmen/Tuff Son Regular readers of CL should be acquainted with Radarmen (a Tampa punk trio with a Tampa Bay Brewing Co. tripel named after it), and those same readers should also probably have an inkling of an idea about Fre$h P (a high-energy Tampa rapper who has appeared in our daily show roundups a couple of time). This early, free, pet- and kid-friendly outdoor concert is a chance to make the connection in real life, and it is also a chance to be friends with Tuff Son, a project from now-Sarasota-based Columbus, Ohio export Jeph Kerber, who plays a brand of neo-folk that references everything from David Dondero to early Jack Johnson and even Sublime. (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Johnnyswim w/Striking Matches Man, you’ve got to feel for State Theatre. The historic Sunshine City concert venue has been losing concerts left and right (chalk that up to ongoing fire code-related renovations that have reduced capacity at State). Fans win on this one, however, since Jannus Live offers the opportunity for more of them to see the wife-and-husband duo of Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez (aka Johnnyswim) work through its sparse, but well-seasoned, collection of rock-solid pop. Nashville country-rock duo Striking Matches opens the show. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
Ken Block w/Drew Copeland Sister Hazel fans are going to want to relish the opportunity to get up close and personal with Ken Block and Drew Copeland as the founding frontman and guitarist for the long-running Gainesville soft-rock quintet Sister Hazel play an intimate set at one of Ybor City’s best listening rooms. (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Listener w/Levi The Poet/Comrades/Everett/more Spoken word meets emo at this one where Dan Smith (frontman for Fayetteville, Arkansas’ Listener) brings what’s evolved into a fully fleshed-out indie-rock sound (plus Hold Steady-nodding new single “Little Folded Fingers”) to Crowbar, where Levi Morgan MacAllister (aka Levi the Poet) and a host of weepy-rocking others play support. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Whitney James: A jazz tribute to Barbra Streisand The Bay area’s love affair with Whitney James goes back a long way, but it would still be fair to say that it really started to heat up when the Tierra Verde singer and Windy City transplant (who is also a lifelong performer and mover of dance and musical theater) released her 2010 debut The Nature of Love, on which she paid homage to influences like Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn and others. This show — taking place within the cozy confines of the Palladium Theater’s Side Door Cabaret — will tap another one of James’ reference points, however, and it’ll be very interesting to see how bassist Alejandro Arenas, piano player John O’Leary and drummer Mark Feinman (all from Tampa Bay jazz scene staples La Lucha) compliment a tribute to Babs. (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) INFO
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This article appears in Nov 2-9, 2017.