OCTOBER
28 Wynonna Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall (Sarasota)
28 Hatebreed w/The Absence/Hate Eternal/Silence After Tragedy State Theatre
28 Damageplan w/Shadows Fall/The Haunted Masquerade
28 Donna Wissinger & Chrstine Mori Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center
29 Taking Back Sunday/Fallout Boy/Matchbook Romance/The Varsity Jannus Landing
29 Bitch w/TBA Orpheum
29 Freepoets.com Presents Science Non Fiction/ Spontaneous Habit/Trafficked Ambition/BC (Red Tide)/ Johnny Utah/Breakdown/DJ Blenda/V.O.I.D. Masquerade
29 Voice in the Wire 688 Skatepark
29 Against Me!/Blood Brothers/True North State Theatre
29 Magnify w/Fifth Story/Klik Boomerz Boiler Room
30 The Grateful Dead's Vince Welnick w/Gent Treadly Skipper's Smokehouse
30 Ministry w/My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Jannus Landing
30 Zappaween 10 State Theatre [CANCELLED]
30 Pinback/Lake Trout/Aspects of Physics State Theatre
30 Barry Manilow St. Pete Times Forum
30 Lady Saw w/Kiprich Club 112
30 Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys Plant City High School
31 Perpetual Groove Masquerade
31 Tiltwheel/Altaira/The Tim Version/The Dukes of Hillsborough/Vena Caba Pegasus Lounge
NOVEMBER
4 The Mercury Program/Fin Fang Foom/Chin Up Chin Up New World Brewery
5 Mike Watt & The Secondmen Orpheum
5 Dark Star Orchestra Jannus Landing
5 Subhumans w/Caustic Christ/7 Crowns State Theatre
5 Paul Thorn Skipper's Smokehouse
5 Metallica St. Pete Times Forum
5 Dope w/Twisted Method/Motograter Boomerz Boiler Room
5 Hawk Nelson/Joash/Ink Blot 688 Skatepark
6 Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys Skipper's Smokehouse
6 R. Kelly & Jay-Z St. Pete Times Forum
6 Donna Frost w/LJ D'Alessandro Jimmy Mac's
6 Alan Jackson w/Martina McBride Ford Amphitheatre
6 Type O Negative Jannus Landing
7 Sparta/Further Seems Forever/Copeland/Sunshine Masquerade
7 The Cruxshadows w/Negative Format Masquerade
7 Maggie, Pierce & EJ Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa
7 Violet Burning Real Life Church
7 Gavin DeGraw Jannus Landing
8 Premonitions of War/Embrace Today/Death Before Dishonor/Ion Dissonance Orpheum
9 Lucky Boys Confusion w/TBA State Theatre
9 Maggie, Pierce & EJ Skipper's Smokehouse
10 Fourplay Tampa Theatre
10 Simple Plan/Mae/Plain White Ts Jannus Landing
11 Cradle of Filth/Arch Enemy/Himsa/Bleeding Through Masquerade
11 Bryan Bowers Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa
12 Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs Skipper's Smokehouse
12 Murphy's Law/The Reason State Theatre
12 Jucifer w/Torche/TBA Orpheum
12 Rod MacDonald Octagon Arts Center
12-14 Down on the Farm Feat. Karl Denson's Tiny Universe/Tishamingo/Perpetual Groove/More Spanish Moss Farm (Quincy)
13 Sarah Brightman USF Sun Dome
13 Days Away Masquerade
13 The Six Parts Seven/Brian Straw New World Brewery
13 Riverhawk Festival Dade City
13 Socialburn Boomerz Boiler Room
14 Tokyo Rose/In Passing/The Goodwill Orpheum
15 Darkest Hour/Between The Buried And Me/Fear Before The March of Flames/Kylesa Orpheum
15 Coheed & Cambria w/Underoath/Three Masquerade
16 Small Potatoes & Zoe Speaks Skipper's Smokehouse
16 Kenny Wayne Shepherd Jannus Landing
16 A Static Lullaby/Hopesfall/Code Seven/ Yourcodenameis/Milo/Rock Kills Kid State Theatre
17 Bouncing Souls/Murphy's Law/Let It Burn/The Loved Ones State Theatre
19 Whiskey Store (Tab Benoit & Jimmy Thackery) Skipper's Smokehouse
19 Finger Eleven/Local H State Theatre
19 Spider John Koerner University of South Florida
19 Alter Bridge Jannus LandingMAKEUP SHOW
20 The Killers w/The Walkmen Masquerade
20 Marcia Ball Skipper's Smokehouse
21 Josh Martinez & Sleep/Adeem & DQDJ/Astronautalis Masquerade
23 Cannibal Corpse/Napalm Death/Goatwhore/Kataklysm/ Vada Masquerade
23 George Clinton & P-Funk Jannus Landing
24 Anarchy in the FLA: A Benefit for Tampa Bay Food Bank & Tampa Bay SXSW Showcase 2005 The Bank
26 Slayer/Killswitch Engage/Mastodon/Kalus Masquerade
26 Albert & Gage Catherine A. Hickman Theater
26 Anthony Gomes w/Damon Fowler Skipper's Smokehouse
27 Melissa Ferrick Skipper's Smokehouse
28 The Oak Ridge Boys Ruth Eckerd Hall
28 Saturday Looks Good To Me/Entrance/Terror at The Opera Orpheum
28 Four Shillings Short Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa
29 Boys Night Out/Emery/From First to Last State Theatre
30 Dave Koz & Friends Ruth Eckerd Hall
This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2004.