March
24 Copeland/Acceptance/Lovedrug/As Tall As Lions State Theatre
24 The Sarasota Jazz Festival Presents Kenny G Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall (Sarasota)
24 Eyes Like Knives w/Auditorium/Arcade Inferno New World Brewery
25 Maroon 5 w/The Donnas St. Pete Times Forum
25 Machine Drum/h8/The Band of the Name/Hydra The Sea Serpent/Function New World Brewery
25 The Legendary Shack Shakers w/The Vodkanauts Skipper's Smokehouse
26 Atmosphere w/P.O.S. Doomtree State Theatre
26 The School Night Records Tour w/Mason/Echo Me/Astronaut 688 Skatepark
26 The Independents w/The Dangerfields Brass Mug
26 Decibully/Codeseven Orpheum
26 Amorphis w/Into Eternity/Single Bullet Theory/Beyond The Embrace Masquerade
27 Sonny Landreth Skipper's Smokehouse
27 Mare/Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus/Dove/Byam Klavor Orpheum
27 Sound Tribe Sector 9 Masquerade
28 Jazz Guitar Summit USF Music Recital Hall
29 Tammerlin/Red Headed Stepchild Skipper's Smokehouse
29 Big River Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
30 Recover w/Armor for Sleep/Say Anything/Chase Pagan Orpheum
31 Ladysmith Black Mambazo Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
31 Less Than Jake w/Allister/Hidden in Plain View/Days Away Jannus Landing
April
1 Rise Against/Alexisonfire/Brazil/Black Maria Masquerade
1 Tori Amos Ruth Eckerd Hall
1 Jimbo Mathus Knockdown South w/TBA Skipper's Smokehouse
1 The Fabulous Thunderbirds Jannus Landing
1 Catch 22/Don't Look Down/Whole Wheat Bread State Theatre
1-3 BBQFest Feat. Lou Gramm/War/Night Ranger/Grand Funk Railroad/More Town Square Plaza (Pinellas Park)
2 Hank Williams III State Theatre
3 Third Annual Rock 'N' Roll Swap Meet ACL Bar & Grill
3 ?And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead w/TBA State Theatre
5 Tift Merritt w/Chatham County Line Skipper's Smokehouse
5-19 19th Annual La Music International Chamber Music Festival Sarasota
6 Mannheim Steamroller Ruth Eckerd Hall
6 Sevendust w/Skindred Masquerade
6 Since The Flood/The Acacia Strain/The Esoteric/Take These Eyes/At Heart Orpheum
7 Rodney Carrington Ruth Eckerd Hall
7 MC Chris w/Tres Bien/Yip Yip/Internet Drama State Theatre
7 7 Mary 3 Masquerade
8 Red Elvises Skipper's Smokehouse
8 Foghat State Theatre
8 The Red Chord/Bury Your Dead/A Life Once Lost/It Dies Today/Silence After Tragedy Orpheum
8 The Accident Experiment/Alston 688 Skatepark
8-10 StringBreak Music Festival Sertoma Youth Ranch (Dade City)
9 Chuck Berry & Little Richard Ruth Eckerd Hall
9 Howard Lyons Octagon Arts Center
9 TSOL/The AKAs State Theatre
9 Peter Frampton Vinoy Park
9 Los Amigos Invisibles Skipper's Smokehouse
10 Southern Culture on the Skids w/The Alaskan Pirate & His Salty Seamen Skipper's Smokehouse
10 Cake w/Gomez Jannus Landing
10 Limitpoint/Slowdance/Vague Angels Orpheum
10 Franco Da Vita Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
10 Huey Lewis & The News Vinoy Park
12 Ever We Fall/Voice in the Wire/The Drake Equation/Crooked Edge Orpheum
12 Tiger Army w/The Unseen State Theatre
14 The Music of Styx: Dennis DeYoung & Rock Symphony Ruth Eckerd Hall
14 Keb'Mo' Tampa Theatre
15 Todd Rundgren & Joe Jackson Ruth Eckerd Hall
15 Damian Marley Jannus Landing
16 Black Label Society Masquerade
16 Havana Night Club – The Show St. Pete Times Forum
16 Todd Snider Skipper's Smokehouse
16 New World Brewery's 10th Anniversary Feat. The Boats/Hankshaw/Auto!Automatic!! New World Brewery
18 Green Day w/My Chemical Romance USF Sun Dome
19 Aretha Franklin Ruth Eckerd Hall
19 Jazz Masterworks Series Inauguration Feat. Nnenna Freelon/Gerald Wilson/Anita Brown USF Theatre 1
19 Joe Nichols Cypress Gardens
20 Art Garfunkel Ruth Eckerd Hall
21 George Clinton & P-Funk Jannus Landing
22 Arbouretum/Nut Tank/Jarvic 7 New World Brewery
22 Agnostic Front/Martyr AD/Love is Red/All Shall Perish State Theatre
22 Richard Thompson Tampa Theatre
22-24 Largo Music Fest Feat. Don MacLean Largo Central Park
23 Mustard Plug/MU33's Dan Potthast/RudeSquad/Safety Orpheum
23 Vonda Shepard State Theatre
23 Reba McEntire w/Brad Paisley Ford Amphitheatre
23 Marshall Tucker Band Manatee Civic Center (Palmetto)
23 Ludicris USF Sun Dome
23 Pigface Masquerade
23 Spring Fest 2005 Feat. Further Seems Forever 688 Skatepark
24 The Rowan Brothers Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa
25 Taking Back Sunday w/TBA Ford Amphitheatre Courtyard
25 Keith Fullerton Whitman/Greg Davis/Bird Show/My Winter At Sea/Keith Zak New World Brewery
26 Lisa Marie Presley Jannus Landing
26 The Codetalkers Feat. Col. Bruce Hampton w/The Rowan Brothers Skipper's Smokehouse
28 Billy Idol Ruth Eckerd Hall
29 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts St. Pete Times Forum
30 Strapping Young Lad w/Agony Scene/Misery Signals/Reflux/Left in Ashes Masquerade
30 98Rock Presents the B.F.D. Feat. 3 Doors Down Ford Amphitheatre
May
5 Slightly Stoopid/Fishbone Jannus Landing
5 Kreator w/TBA Masquerade
5-8 Emergenza Festival Semi-Finals Boomerz Boiler Room
6-7 Donna the Buffalo Jannus Landing
7 Heritage OP Octagon Arts Center
7 Kelly Clarkson Ruth Eckerd Hall
8 The Dirtbombs w/The Unrequited Loves/The Dead Popes Orpheum
9 Sarah McLachlan St. Pete Times Forum
13 Mice Parade/Boom Bip/The Mercury Program Orpheum
13 & 14 Cornerstone Music Festival Central Florida Fairgrounds (Orlando)
13-15 Uphonia Spanish Moss Farm (Quincy)
14 WMNF Presents The 24th Annual Tropical Heatwave Festival Ybor City
15 Will Downing Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
20 Mastodon/Death By Stereo/Cult of Luna State Theatre
21 King Diamond/Nile/Black Dahlia Murder Masquerade
21 Bob Schneider Skipper's Smokehouse
21 The Rise Up Tour Feat. Disciple/Subseven 688 Skatepark (MAKEUP SHOW)
22 The Firebird Band/Liars Academy Orpheum
24 The Ravonettes w/TBA State Theatre
25 Mommy & Daddy/Thunderbirds Are Now! Orpheum
27 Emmylou Harris Tampa Theatre
28 Acoustic Alchemy Tampa Theatre
29 Snow Patrol w/Athlete State Theatre (MAKEUP SHOW)
29 Utterpunk.com Tour Feat. Day at the Fair/Stimulus/The Big Screen 688 Skatepark
29 Beres Hammond/Marcia Griffiths/Jimmy Cozier/Jahfari Jannus Landing
This article appears in Mar 16-22, 2005.