✔️ Weezer w/the Pixies/The Wombats For seven weeks this summer, two titans of ’90s alternative rock will co-headline a run of shows that’ll have you trying to squeeze into a T-shirt you bought way back in middle school. The Pixies look a little different these days since Paz Lenchantin (who played bass or strings in bands like Entrance, A Perfect Circle, Zwan, and Queens of the Stone Age) took over bass duties in 2014, but Weezer is riding high on the success of its recent cover of Toto’s “Africa,” which fans have been clamoring about for months now (the track was streamed 2.8 million times and broke through the Billboard’s Top 100, making it Weezer’s first entry since early 2010). Expect Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo to tease a forthcoming album, The Black Album, and get there early to see The Wombats, whose new album, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life, is an electro-rock joyride. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Brother Cephus w/The Venus/Justin Depth Brother Cephus’s Saturday-night show at The Hub may be the most-memed local rock show of the year, but it’s best to log off and see what the hullabaloo is about in real life when it joins vintage, interstellar ’60s rock band The Venus and Justin Myers for a free gig at this beloved, heavy-handed downtown dive. Myers — who performs under the Justin Depth moniker — is supporting an early 2018 EP, Clear, where he weaves strands of waavy electro-pop together to make a meditative sound that’s the perfect soundtrack for smoking cigarettes and getting buzzed in the dark. There’s never a cover at The Hub, which is probably bad news for your liver. (The Hub, Tampa) INFO
SIBLING SONGS
Tampa’s Brother Cephus has a unique and ever-evolving creative process
Luke Bryan w/Sam Hunt/Jon Pardi/Morgan Wallen Does the idea of “Huntin’, Fishin’ & Lovin’ Every Day” really pump you up? Yeah? Well,then you probably already know about this stadium-sized summer country showdown featuring sizzling-hot, 41-year-old Travis Tritt and Billy Currington songwriter Luke Bryan. Get there early to experience tailgates, tanlines and a parking lot full of people doing their thing. (Raymond James Stadium, Tampa) INFO
GreyMarket w/Diealps!/Infinite Eights Greymarket says that it’s influenced by Supertramp, Gomez, and Genesis, but that its love for films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Star Wars bleeds through even more. The sci-fi space-rock duo plays a rare headlining set in Ybor in support of a 2016 EP, Dead Ends, and will be supported by Bay area indie-rock vets DieAlps! plus fresh-faced up-and-coming pop act Infinite Eights. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
MYTHICAL MOHR
Tampa Bay songwriter Danielle Mohr is your Aphrodite in new video
Honeywhat live album recording w/Jordan Esker and the Hundred Percent Singer-songwriter Danielle Mohr’s new band, Honeywhat, is kinda-sorta skipping the studio and recording a live album at one of St. Petersburg’s most pristine listening rooms, Hideaway Café. The album should be ready about a month after this show, and we’re just here to remind you that heckling so that the tape can pick you up is kind of an asshole move. (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Set and Setting w/Weltesser/Body Void/Horsewhip A trio of Bay area heavy-metal doombringers (post-rock band Set and Setting, crusty-hardcore quartet Horsewhip and fast-rising sludge-metal act Weltesser) plays host to a west coast trio, San Francisco-based Body Void, which is touring in support of a new droning collection of black metal, I Live Inside A Burning House. At least three songs on the effort clock in at over 15 minutes long (with album closer “Given” running 21-minutes), so don’t be surprised if Body Void spreads out and splits eardrums open at this one. (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Pop
Phangs w/I the Victor/more (Transitions Art Gallery at the Skatepark of Tampa, Tampa) INFO
Supergold w/Sick Hot/Treis/Favorite Habit (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
Americana/Bluegrass/Folk
String Time Social (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor) INFO
2nd Annual JV Jamboree w/Shane Meade & the Sound/Jason Hall (Lot 1901, Ybor City) INFO
American Song Box (Leaven Brewing Co., Riverview) INFO
Hip-hop
Battle To The Masses: Do It For The Culture w/J’Nelle/Jus Henry (5508 Coworking & Collaboration Exchange, Tampa) INFO
Rock
Traitors w/Area Cura/more (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
Row Jomah (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
The Electric Mud w/Viewers Like You (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
Tarpon Fest 2018 w/Black Honkeys/Lie Low/more (Neptune Lounge, Tarpon Springs) INFO
Jetter w/Sonic Aftermath (Beer & Brownies, Tampa) INFO
Den of Theives (Ka`Tiki, Treasure Island) INFO
Sins of the Father w/The Knowing/Naked Vengeance/Down From Trees (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
DJ
St.Pete Pride Dance Party w/DJ Project Matt (NYC)/Trippy Squad (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
So What’cha Want w/DJ Fader (Orbit 19 Lounge, Holiday) INFO
DJ Moss (The Stockyard, Holiday) INFO
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Madonna Party (Emerald Bar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Ska
The New Rulers (Bar Fly, Safety Harbor) INFO
EDM
HPC Guest List Pedro M w/J Manuel/Curtis James (Hyde Park Café, Tampa) INFO
AMP!D Saturdays (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Kat Baumback (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Songs From The Attic w/The Hummingbirds/Mountain Holler/Amber Lynn Nicol/Joshua Reilly (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Blues
Melody Trucks Band w/Allman Goldflies Band (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Funk
Reverend Barry & The Funk (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Tribute/cover
Antelope (Phish Tribute) (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Speak Easy (early) w/The Wait Duo (late) (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
CPPAC 2018 Summer Concert Series w/Foreigner Tribute/Bad Company Tributes(Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo) INFO
Jazz
Victoria Ginty and Ladyhawke (Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin) INFO
This article appears in Jun 21-28, 2018.
