✔️= Critic's Pick
The Scream of the Butterfly: A Tribute to Jim Morrison and the Music of The Doors Members of Bay area bands like Displace, Cope, Mountain Holler, J.T. Brown, Row Jomah, Garden Club, Flow Sisters, Shevonne Philidor, Sarah Ferrer, Jonathan Huber, Blassafrass and more pay homage to an old Sunshine State boy (Morrison went to Florida State) while live painters keep your other senses humming. This show promises to be more “Moonlight Drive” than “Roadhouse Blues,” and if that strikes a chord with you, then you’ll probably want to check it out. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ La Tabernera del Puerto w/BADO Orchestra Pablo Sorozába’s three-act zarzuela (a Spanish-language drama featuring spoken parts plus opera, pop songs and dance) hits the stage backed by Ezra Haugabrooks’s Ballet and Dance Orchestra. It’s been a good eight decades since the original work first premiered in Barcelona, and this is a good excuse to do something a little different, and a little fancy, on your Friday night. Listen to the work’s most famous aria (“No puede ser”) via cltampa.com/music. (Mainstage Theatre at Hillsborough Community College, Ybor City) INFO
✔️ Wrong w/Gouge Away/Vacancy/Horsewhip Heavy-hitting St. Pete rock outfit Horsewhip is inching closer to its debut LP, and on Friday the band will play support on a mega-loud metal show at this all-ages St. Pete tattoo shop. Noisemaking Miami alt-metal group wrong (featuring members of Torche and ex-members of Capsule and Kylesa) headline the gig and should give fans plenty of material from a brutalizing 2018 album, Feel Great, which was released in April. (Lucky You Tattoo, St. Petersburg) INFO
Didgeridoo Down Under We know that some of our readers like to get high on their weekdays off. That usually leaves you looking for something to do, and this early afternoon (also kid-friendly) set of didgeridoo music should do the trick. Droning sound from down under, puppets and comedy should make this one very, very entertaining. (Palm Harbor Library, Palm Harbor) INFO
✔️ Diego Figueiredo This prolific guitarist has released 23 CDs, three DVDs and played more than 60 different countries. Oh, Diego Figueiredo isn’t even 40 years old yet, either. The Montreux Jazz Competition winner will bring the heritage of home (Franca, Brazil) to St. Pete for an intimate night of jazz and Brazilian bossa nova and chorinho (an urban, fast and happy, Rio-born style of instrumental music full of subtle modulations, syncopation and counterpoint). (Side Door Cabaret at Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg) SOLD OUT
Altered Perceptions w/Nomvdic There’s a lot of angst out there in the ‘burbs, so this Brandon all-ages space is hosting a hometown set from Bay area metal outfit, Nomvdic, so that the kids can get it all out. The band’s latest album Horror, a 30-minute blast of black metal perfect for slam dancing, will provide the soundtrack, and the big name on this bill is fast-rising Chicago metal quartet Altered Perceptions. (The Noise Box, Brandon) INFO
Figure We’re pretty sure that Josh Gard doesn’t remember Largo’s old Gasoline Alley, but that’s where his Friday show is happening. Now called Los Dos Plebes, the venue will put its EDM hat on when OWSLA signee Gard — better known as Indiana-based dub and drumstep producer Figure — brings his particularly aggro wubs to town. We might be several months away from Halloweeen, but don’t be surprised to hear Gard dip into any one of his infamous Monster releases at this show. (Los Dos Plebes, Largo) INFO
✔️ Blacksmith w/Luca/Planet Loser UPDATE: Luca cancelled the show yesterday. Blacksmith still tight AF, tho. If Lucky You’s metal show is just a little too heavy for you, then be in Tampa when Texas emo trio Luca comes to this Seminole Heights record shop in support of its own new album, the hook-heavy You’ll Never Be at Peace With This, which was released in March. Produced, mixed, and mastered by Nathan Hussey of All Get Out, the 10-track, 40-minute effort features the kind of pop-punk melody of our teenage years without the polish that made some that era’s bands sound a little cheesy. Tampa good boys Blacksmith play support along with a new Bay area band, Planet Loser. (Microgroove, Tampa) INFO
Kasondra Rose Burgeoning Bay area singer-songwriter Kasondra Rose leaves for a month-long summer tour in July, and this one is a chance to see her warm up with a laid-back show at the equally casual Indie in downtown St. Pete. (Independent Bar, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Judy Jean w/Nicholas Roberts/Jordan Foley Two Orlando fellas (burly Jordan Foley and the slightly more polished Nicholas Roberts) join St. Pete indie-pop duo Judy Jean for this free St. Pete show. A lot of Roberts’s stuff — especially songs like “Still Believe” and “The Rest of Our Lives” — tiptoes that line between folk and pop-tronica, and his gift for melody will really please fans of songwriters like Mat Kearney, Coldplay and Dallas Green. Foley on the other hand plays a special brand of Americana for admirers of bands like American Aquarium, Lucero and Ryan Bingham. (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
ALSO PLAYING
Tribute/Cover
Charlie Farley (Classics, Hudson) INFO
Mister Mayhem (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Beachwolf (Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Fencewalk (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Torpedo (Buckets Grill & Tap, Tampa) INFO
Josephine’s Machine (Smokin’ 19, St. Petersburg) INFO
Unlimited Devotion Returns (Ka'Tiki, Treasure Island) INFO
Country
Eric Lee (Sun City Center United Methodist Church, Sun City) INFO
Will Erickson (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Americana/Bluegrass
Applebutter Express Baby Jam w/Oak Ramble (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Jenu Six & The Old Souls (Ella's Americana Folk Art Cafe, Tampa) INFO
Blues
TC Carr & Bolts of Blue (Safety Harbor Arts & Music Center, Safety Harbor) INFO
Betty Fox Band (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Kid Royal & the Hang Ups (Ruby’s Elixir, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rock
Rest in North Dakota (SubCentral At Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
Battle of the Bands (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Vain Rachell w/Out of Touch/Home Cookin'/Out of Touch (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Road Trip
RÜFÜS DU SOL (Plaza Live, Orlando) INFO
Slayer w/Anthrax/Lamb Of God/Behemoth/Testament (Orlando Amphitheatre, Orlando) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Lassyu w/Tommy Slade/One Trip Little/Changer (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Ray Gurka (c. 1949 Florida Beer Garden, St. Petersburg) INFO
Dan Signor (lkld Live, Lakeland) INFO
John Kelly & Friends (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
EDM
#Pound Friday (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Music and Meal w/ Joe Milligan Project/Pasco Paul Belmore (Sacred Lands, St. Petersburg) INFO
DJ
DJ Sugarbear/DJ Big Chris (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
Taking Back Fridays w/DJ Heathen (Orbit 19, Holiday) INFO
