Live Nation is America’s largest concert promoter and predicting record profits for 2023 after already reporting record earnings last year. The company plays an outsized role in Tampa Bay’s concert calendar, but the newly founded D Tour network of indie venues and promoters is working together to offer touring artists unique packages in multiple markets—and keep more money in the hands of your homegrown local venues.
This gig featuring Durry, a now TikTok famous brother and sister indie-rock outfit from Minnesota, is a great example of how D Tour works. Expect the room to be full of people singing along to the earworm “Who’s Laughing Now,” and make sure to get to the show early for an opening set by Tampa rock band Pet Lizard which has rightfully become a darling of disciples of 97X’s Next Big Thing where the Lizard has wowed early crowds.
Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...