Every son of a bitch we saw at the Wolf-Face 10-year anniversary concert in St. Pete

When you're immortal, a decade is barely a blink, but that didn't stop St. Pete punk band Wolf-Face and its fearless, teenage…

By Dave Decker

Everyone son of a bitch we saw at the Wolf-Face 10-year anniversary concert in St. Pete
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Everyone we saw at Vacations' sold-out Ybor City concert

It's a long way to America from Australia, and Vacations' U.S. fans have been making the trip worth it for the Aussie…

By Dave Decker

Everyone we saw at Vacations' sold-out Ybor City concert
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Photos from Avail and Hot Water Music's St. Pete show at Jannus Live

In a throwback to the "Book Your Own Fucking Life" days when you'd book a tour by telephone, two giants of the…

By Dave Decker

Avail
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Everyone we saw when Emo Night Tampa went to St. Pete last weekend

Emo Night Tampa laid low when omicron arrived, but finally started getting back out in the wild last weekend when it played…

By Dave Decker

The Arrival Note
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Photos from Prince Midnight’s Tampa show featuring the Lars Ulrich toilet

On Friday night, Tampa rock star gone viral, Prince Midnight, made his live debut backed by a four-piece backing band, the Searing…

By Ray Roa

Prince Midnight's Lars Ulrich toilet and fine art toilet seat gallery at Brass Mug in Tampa, Florida on Dec. 3, 2021.
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Photos: Seminal Boston punk band Moving Targets plays sold-out record shop show in Tampa

If you were a punk in the 1980s, then you knew about Moving Targets. Large scale commercial success evaded frontman-guitarist Kenny Chambers,…

By CL Staff

Moving Targets
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Everyone we saw at Ashtray Monument’s ‘Monufest’ music festival in New Port Richey

It was a gorgeous Saturday for a music festival, and the folks behind New Port Richey record label Ashtray Monument got a…

By CL Staff

Everyone we saw at Ashtray Monument’s ‘Monufest’ music festival in New Port Richey
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All the bands and people we saw at Tampa's Gasparilla Music Festival 2021

After postponing its March dates, Gasparilla Music Festival returned to downtown Tampa last weekend to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a new,…

By CL Staff

Photo by Ysanne Taylor c/o Gasparilla Music Festival
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Everything we saw at night two of Summer Jam music festival in Ybor City

Summer Jam returned from a 7-year hiatus over the weekend with a two-day affair that featured a Friday show from Demigodz co-founders…

By CL Staff

Roxx & the Revolts
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Everyone we saw at Ybor City’s infamous ‘Hot Dog Party’ at Crowbar

It’s not hyperbole to say that the efforts of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) gave U.S. rock clubs a chance to…

By CL Staff

Everyone we saw at Ybor City’s infamous ‘Hot Dog Party’ at Crowbar
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Photos of Mindwash and Wreath rocking Tampa’s Hooch and Hive

In a sharp drop from peaks around 5,000 daily deaths, just more than 300 people are now dying daily in the U.S.…

By CL Staff

Mindwash
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Photos of Straz Center’s ‘Tampa Total Request Live’ concert on the Riverwalk

The City of Tampa had its annual Light On Tampa celebration this weekend, and Straz Center webseries “Tampa Total Request Live” (TTRL)…

By CL Staff

Photos of Straz Center’s ‘Tampa Total Request Live’ concert on the Riverwalk
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At Palladium in St. Petersburg, Have Gun Will Travel, Geri X play limited-capacity concert

At St. Petersburg’s Palladium Theater, Hough Hall can pack in 850 when COVID-19 isn’t a thing, but the venue is only selling…

By CL Staff

At Palladium in St. Petersburg, Have Gun Will Travel, Geri X play limited-capacity concert
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Have Gun, Will Travel brought live music back to Crowbar in Ybor City

It’s been more than seven months since music venues across the country shut down to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and…

By CL Staff

Have Gun, Will Travel brought live music back to Crowbar in Ybor City
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Photos of Xetas, Joyeater and Charles Irwin playing Seminole Heights record store Microgroove

Texas duo Xetas stopped in Tampa on Tuesday for a set at Seminole Heights record shop Microgroove where Charles Irwin and Joyeater…

By CL Staff

Xetas
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Photos of Tampa indie-rock band DieAlps! releasing a new album in Seminole Heights

Tampa indie-rock band DieAlps! celebrated the release of its second full-length album, More Important Things, at American Legion Post 111 in Seminole…

By CL Staff

Photos of Tampa indie-rock band DieAlps! releasing a new album in Seminole Heights
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Photos of Tampa punk band Feral Babies reuniting at Microgroove

It makes sense that Feral Babies—a Tampa punk band fronted by one of the city's merriest pranksters, Justin Arnold—would announce a reunion…

By CL Staff

Feral Babies
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Photos from Joyeater's album release show at Nova House Clearwater

Genre-blending Tampa Bay punk-rock and new wave band Joyeater has a debut LP, Naysayer, and it celebrated with a Clearwater gig at…

By CL Staff

Photos from Joyeater's album release show at Nova House Clearwater
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Photos of The Menzingers, Tigers Jaw and Culture Abuse playing Tampa Orpheum

A whopper of a punk-rock bill dropped into Orpheum in Ybor City when The Menzingers rolled through Tampa alongside Tigers Jaw and…

By CL Staff

The Menzingers
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Everything we saw at Absolution Fest in Ybor City

Vancouver based post-punk and new wave band Actors made a little kids day over the weekend when Absolution Fest took over Orpheum…

By CL Staff

Ritual Howls @ Crowbar
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Photos from Sing Out Loud St. Augustine's punk-rock weekend

Sing Out Loud is spending September taking over several St. Augustine, Florida venues (including The Amp and Sarbez), and September 13-14 belonged…

By CL Staff

Coathangers
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Photos of Canadian punk band Pup raging at Tampa Orpheum

Polaris Prize-nominated Canadian punk band Pup (stylized "PUP") brought a new album, Morbid Stuff, to Ybor City where Illuminati Hotties and Potty Mouth…

By CL Staff

Pup
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