✔️ = Critic's Pick
✔️ Black Tusk w/Royal Thunder/Leviathan Cross/Mutilated Grist Holy shit. Coppertail owner Kent David showed off his drumming skills during a Wednesday night brewery battle of the bands charity event, but on Saturday he's turning the switch to "metal" for a show headlined by Savannah Georgia metal mayhem-makers Black Tusk who'll be joined by another set of Peach State hellraisers (Royal Thunder) and a pair of Tampa Bay's own metal outfits. It's all part of Tampa Bay Beer Week, and while you'll be able to enjoy some special keg tappings without a ticket, you will need one to get into the show. (Coppertail Brewing Company, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Sabaton w/Kreator Orpheum is usually where Swedish metal shows land, but this one featuring power-metal outfit Sabaton could not be contained at the Ybor City nightclub. All the better, though, since German thrash-metal giants Kreator are also on the bill, making this show something like an international headbangers' ball. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Injury Reserve Weird internet rap is enjoying its glory days right now. Albums names like Floss and Live From The Dentist Office might lead you to brush off Injury Reserve as just another group using irony and satire to gain attention, but the Arizona-based outfit’s sound — which dabbles in grime, jazz and punk — worked well enough to get the boys out of basements and into clubs like Crowbar. It’ll be interesting to see if Stepa J. Groggs, Ritchie With a T and Parker Corey can move tickets on the same night that The Roots are playing Gasparilla Music Festival, but hip-hop has become the most popular strain of pop music so don’t be surprised if young fans let the old guys do their thing while the genre’s future showcases just a couple of miles away. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
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Chasco Fiesta w/Foghat New Port Richey’s annual Chasco Fiesta party kicks off on Friday, goes through March 17, and features a variety of concerts that run the gamut from rock to jazz to blues, bluegrass and even country. Foghat kicks all of it off with a little Saturday night blues-boogie, and you can get directions to the show via chascofiesta.com. (Sims Park Amphitheater, New Port Richey) INFO
GASPARILLA MUSIC FESTIVAL GUIDE (2018)
Nikki Lane, The GMF Char, Sked and more
✔️ Gasparilla Music Festival w/The Roots/Spoon/Warpaint/Break Science/Chali 2na and Naughty Professor/Brother Cephus/more Everything you need to know about the 7th annual Gasparilla Music Festival in on p. 36, ya dingus. Read more interviews and listen to music from GMF artists by clicking here. (Curtis Hixon Park and Kiley Garden, Tampa) INFO
✔️ Babyface w/Anthony Hamilton/Sawyer Brown Apopka country vocal group Sawyer Brown plays the early show, and you’re gonna be singing with strawberries in your month come the evening time when a nice one-two punch of R&B and soul hits Plant City. Anthony Hamilton’s 2009 Best Traditional R&B Performance Grammy award for “You’ve Got The Love I Need” with Al Green looks wimpy next to Babyface’s nearly dozen golden gramophones, but don’t expect it to stop Hamilton from showcasing his Southern drawl during his set. (Florida Strawberry Festival, Plant City) INFO
CL PREMIERE
CL Premiere: "Take My Hand," says House Of I
Viewers Like You w/House Of I/Donna Lu Safety Harbor quartet Viewers Like You is new to us, and the stuff on the self-proclaimed alt-rock and emo band’s Soundcloud profile is three years old, so we’ll figure out what the group really sounds like at this show for which the band is joined by House of I. The Miami transplants just released a new album, Alienation, which the band hopes “represents the experiences and perspective we share collectively as a group on today’s society and the people we interact with.” Check out “Take My Hand” from the album here, and get there early to see Tampa quintet Donna Lu fire off tracks from College Boy Blues, its year-old, 10-track collection of catchy indie-rock. (The Bends, St. Petersburg) INFO
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ALSO PLAYING
Rock
Saferwaters w/Changer/Suit Swingers (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
Together In Exile w/Sunshine & Bullets/The Fallen Shall Prevail (Pegasus Lounge, Tampa) INFO
Paul Childers Band (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
The Reality (The Wild Rover Brewery, Tampa) INFO
Almost to Feedback w/TBA (The Blue Note, Tampa) INFO
Harlis Sweetwater Band (The Ale & the Witch, St. Petersburg) INFO
Atomic Treehouse & Friends (Beer & Brownies, Tampa) INFO
Scream For Autism w/MadSplatter/Dee Dee Mao/Three Knuckles Deep/Grasping at the Shadow/more (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Classical/Chorale
The United States Army Field Band - Concert Band and Soldiers’ Chorus (Ferguson Hall at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) SOLD OUT
Blues
John Paul Hammond (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
Kaleigh Baker w/Dwight & Nicole (Hideaway Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Trae Pierce & the T-Stones (Ringside Café, St. Petersburg) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Live & Local w/Angie Rey (Jaeb Courtyard at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa) INFO
Stevie Frank (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, Tampa) INFO
Nathanael Hyer & Kristopher James (Green Bench Brewing Co., St. Petersburg) INFO
Country
PGA Valspar Championship w/Jake Owen (Innisbrook Resort Palm Harbor) INFO
Pop
The Fray (Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival, Tampa) INFO
World
The Attic presents Keith Harkin of Celtic Thunder (The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, Ybor City) INFO
The Irish Rovers (Capitol Theatre, Clearwater) INFO
DJ/EDM
Crizzly w/Christian Alexandre (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Retro Red Square Recall w/Rig/Noi (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
Tribute/Cover
John Kadlecik Band (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Uncle John’s Band (Ka’Tiki, Sunset Beach) INFO
Mixed Signal (late show) (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
The Good Bad Kids (early show) (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Strut (Buckets Grill & Tap, Tampa) INFO
Nation (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Voiceplay (Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center at City Hall, Tarpon Springs) INFO
Misc.
Dollar Hollar $1 Vinyl Record & CD Blowout Sale (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) INFO
