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✔️ The Championship Tour w/Kendrick Lamar/SZA/Schoolboy Q/Jay Rock/Ab-Soul Oh, you’d like a Pulitzer Prize winner to play the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre? Kendrick Lamar has you covered. Last month, the 30-year-old Compton emcee became the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, with the award committee board calling his latest album (the Grammy-winning DAMN., released last year) “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.” This mid-week show will find a very-mixed audience taking in — and reciting back — Lamar’s hyper-poetic, oft-existential observations on his mental state, the state of our union and seemingly everything in between. The effort is less jazzy than its predecessor (2015’s ultra-funky To Pimp a Butterfly), but just as muscular in the music department thanks to production from Mike WiLL, The Alchemist, 9th Wonder and more. This tour also flexes hard thanks to the addition of R&B’s next superstar (SZA), and an all-star lineup featuring some of hip-hop’s most gifted wordsmiths. Potential show of the year contender, for sure. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa) INFO
Frostfang w/Pyscho Hill/Gullwing Long Island posthardcoreoutfit Psycho Hill drops into The Blue Note for a show so loud that might shake the the walls at this small club that normally plays host to jazz, indie rock and singer-songwriter fare. Look for St. Pete's Frostfang to shred through songs like its new single, "Desert Waves," too. (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
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Carbon Leaf (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Tampa) INFO
Kirk Adams Band (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Theory of a Deadman (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Kayla Ember (Living Room on Main, Dunedin) INFO
Daniele Mohr (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
