Local tabloid tbt* sponsored and chose the acts for this show. I'm not sure how, though, considering the publication drools over every Tampa Bay band like a sophomore in love with the lead singer. Ranting aside, many of the acts tbt* is showcasing Saturday should be familiar to Creative Loafing readers: Rapper Aych (along with his Umbrella Corporation) and singer/songwriter Rebekah Pulley have both appeared on the cover of CL in the past year; honky-tonk hero Blind Buddy Moody collected a CL Best of the Bay critic's award, and garage-rockers Très Bien, who I interviewed in February, performed a brief but killer set at CL's Sensory Overload bash the following month — so I can vouch for all of them, as well as visceral prog-rockers Red Room Cinema and melodic indie-rockers Win Win Winter.
The Ultimate Local Music Showcase: Aych/Bird Street Players/Blind Buddy Moody/Pseudo Heroes/Rebekah Pulley/Red Room Cinema/Très Bien/November Fox Trot Whiskey/Win Win Winter/Zillionaire, 5 p.m. Sat. May 10, Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa, $5 advance/$10 door.
This article appears in May 7-13, 2008.