Tampa Bay live music lovers can be found absorbing loud sonics and sweaty sights in venues ranging from cozy rock dens to plush theaters to humongous arenas to moonlit lawns peppered with empty beer cups.
Everybody has his or her fave. Here at Creative Loafing, we have dozens of preferred rock, jazz, country, blues and experimental noise destinations.
Which made whittling our list of Top 20 concert venues a real bitch, wrought with heated arguments and a near wrestling match between Eric Snider and I.
This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2008.