✔️ = Critic's pick
Geri X w/Dave Herrero Geri X’s voice has always had a haunting way of piercing the air at the many venues she’s played over the years, but we imagine the St. Pete songwriter’s delivery will be extra potent when pushed into the halls of the office complex that surrounds downtown’s Ale & The Witch. (The Ale & The Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Carrollwood Blues and BBQ w/The Lint Rollers/Fauxthentics Life’s not so bad in the ‘burbs. Especially not this week in Carrollwood, where the local cultural center plans to slather some bluesy sauce onto a Saturday barbecue party headlined by Tampa quartet The Lint Rollers. (Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Mutemath Paul Meany’s progressive indie-rock outfit has had a rough year (it parted ways with longtime drummer Darren King in April), but Meany’s old friend (and King collaborator) David Hutchinson has filled in to save this tour, which hits the Jannus expanse on Saturday in support of a new album Play Dead. Read our interview with Meany here. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
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Creative Loafing Best of the Bay — Besk Ukes (Stove.)
✔️ Lycka Till w/Stove./Piss Ghost/Scumbag Dad/Nervous Girls It means “good luck” in Swedish, and anyone who finds themselves at this St. Pete tattoo shop and DIY venue on Saturday will have just that as Lycka Till brings its forthcoming self-titled album of sing-songy punkabilly to a show that also serves as an EP release party for Best of the Bay winning uke-handlers Stove Johnson (click here to see CL’s annual celebration of all wonderful things local). (Lucky You Tattoo, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Blues
Sean Chambers Band (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Stacey Knights and Chuck Weirich (Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin) INFO
Gloria West & the Gents (Ruby’s Elixir, St. Petersburg) INFO
Singer-songwriter/Folk
Acoustic Saturdays with Forrest Hoffar (c. 1949 Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Alice Wallace & the Hummingbirds (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
The End of Daisies w/JT Salazar (Above The Salt Café, Tampa) INFO
Jam/World
Fugu + Vierd (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Papadosio w/Phutureprimitive (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
Stereo-Type (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Gaul w/Weltesser/Vacuous Depths (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) INFO
Self Help Festival w/A Day to Remember/Underoath/Less Than Jake/Streetlight Manifesto/Moose Blood/Real Friends/Dance Gavin Dance/Wage War (Central Florida Fairgrounds, Orlando) INFO
The Pizza Party w/Abortion Twins/Effit/Spenjamin Bach/Victims of Circumstance/Pagan Faith/The Ood/Porno Party/Unchecked Aggression/more (The Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Blue Oyster Cult w/Starship featuring Mickey Thomas and Rick Derringer (Mad Beach Marina Mark, Madeira Beach) INFO
Classical/Chorale
USF Honor Choir Festival: Finale Concert (Concert Hall at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
EDM/DJ
Road to Pass the Good w/Easybaked/Dropkick/Signalkraft/Ollie Mumbles/more (Pegasus Lounge, Tampa) INFO
This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 6, 2017.