Guttermouth w/The New Threat/Feral Babies/Wolf Face A night of seething angst and abrasive sounds as headed up by Huntington Beach, Calif. spewers of explicit punk rock, Guttermouth, their catalog covering plenty of tongue-in-cheek topics and featuring such hilarious song titles as the super-lengthy, "Hot Dog to the Head (A Hot Dog is a Food Not a Penis So Get it Right or Pay the Price)." (Local 662, St. Petersburg)
Imagination Movers A four-piece formed in New Orleans nearly 10 years ago by four friends who wanted to produce a music/TV program that appealed to both kids and adults — educational lyrics set to familiar rockin' instrumentals. Imagination Movers started on a local PBS affiliate, grew in popularity enough to catch the attention of Disney in 2008, and earned a Disney Records label deal along with a 30-minute Disney Junior show. This is the date re-scheduled from March, with two presentations at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
Skipper's 32nd Anniversary Party w/Vodkanauts/Gumbo Boogie Band/The Groves/The Sara Rose Band/New Groove City/Poetry 'n Lotion/Conrad Oberg/Halcyon/The Gerry Williams Band/The Crazy Carls/The Strangeways/Nalani Rothrock A free, all-day (noon-midnight) Skipperdome shindiggy that commemorates the restaurant/venue's 32-year anniversary serving the Bay area with tasty foods and tunes. The genre-spanning bill touches on brassy, metal-burnished post-jazz fusion of Poetry n' Lotion (which is now a five-piece with the addition of Auto!Automatic!!'s Alex Fedele on trombone and percs), to the Stevie Wonder-influenced funk, soul and R&B of Orlando’s Gerry Williams Band, to the surf-lounge rockin’ of The Vodkanauts. (Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
KillerB3 Documentary Benefit Concert Enjoy a grooving Sunday afternoon and celebration of the forthcoming locally-produced 2013 documentary Killer B3, about the Hammond B3 organ and those musicians committed to mastering the difficult instrument, nicknamed "the Beast." The doc features a who's who of B3 greats, including Palladium concert headliner Shawn Brown, who is joined for a B3-driven concert by guitarist Nate Najar and sax player Jeremy Carter. Proceeds help fund the release of the doc, and attendees are treated to a sneak preview of the film and meet filmmakers Murv Seymour and Joe Bamford. (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)
Rachel Goodrich w/The Happiness Machine/Bootleggers & Baptists I love Ms. Goodrich. She's the petite "shake-a-billy" songstress with the big ol' velvety voice that can be sweet, jazz-sultry, or sly. Her music is just as colorful and varied, a marriage of quirky fun indie pop, modern swing and country folkabilly with light Latin and dance music flavor likely picked up from her native Miami. We don't see her as much since she re-located to the West Coast, so a performance by her and her backing band of "muppets" paired with a warm-up set by folk pop refreshing Happiness Machine should make for a delightful evening. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
Blondie / Devo The "Whip It To Shreds" co-headlining tour puts together two pioneers of New Wave punk and synth pop. The Debbie Harry-fronted Blondie (which still includes original members Clem Burke and Chris Stein along with fresher players Leigh Foxx, Tommy Kessler and Matt Katz-Bohen) performs cuts off ninth studio album, 2011's Panic of Girls, along with all the singles you’d expect ("Heart of Glass," "Call Me," "Rapture," "One Way or Another"). Devo (Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald and Bob Casale, and Jeff Friedl) has also put out a new(ish) album, 2010's highly praised Something for Everybody (their first in two decades), and is likely to mix up their set with newer material and classics like "Whip It," "Jocko Homo" and the like, and their trademark covers of the Stones' "I Can’t Get No Satisfaction," Alan Touissant's "Working in the Coal Mine" and "Secret Agent Man." The Bay area date is presented as part of a '70s/'80s Music Fest, and tickets are a mere $14. (England Brothers Bandshell, Pinellas Park)
Mark Kozelek This is one of those uncompromisingly hip shows that will likely never stop in Tampa, but will definitely draw some folks from here to Orlando. Mark Kozelek is the visionary singer-songwriter behind Sun Kil Moon (and formerly, Red House Painters). Though he just issued a poignant new Sun Kil Moon LP, Among the Leaves, Kozelek has hit the road Sun on a solo tour hyping Mark Kozelek On Tour: A Documentary; the DVD dropped in August and its sountrack follows this October. (The Social, Orlando)
An Evening with Ian Anderson The creative force of vet British prog-rock outfit Jethro Tull, Scottish-born flautist, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Ian Anderson, brings his current Thick As a Brick tour to town, during which he and his band performs both the 1972 epic along with the 2012 sequel in their entirety, with a 20-minute intermission in between. Story by Gabe E. forthcoming. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
