✔️= Critic's Pick
✔️Girls Rock Showcase For the last few months, organizations on both sides of the bay have stepped up to raise funds on behalf of Girls Rock Camp St. Petersburg, which has a simple goal of helping empower a new generation of girls and women through music. On Saturday, sponsors, donors and the community at large get to see their good deeds in action when eight “grrrl-powered” camper bands melt faces on the big stage while a silent auction and live screen-printing go down in the courtyard. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg) INFO
Chicago w/REO Speedwagon Hits from the mid-'70s and early '80s will bump into each other this weekend when two classic-rock giants converge on MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre. Does “Don’t Let Him Go” play well with “If You Leave Me Now”? What about “Roll With the Changes” and “Hard Habit To Break”? Find out on Saturday, and don’t forget to ask Dad to come along. (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa) INFO
CRASH LANDING
Former Tampa songwriter Madison Turner talks burning out and crash landing at St. Petersburg's Lucky You Tattoo
✔️ Madison Turner w/Yankee Roses/Piss Ghost/Community Couch Richmond songwriter Madison Turner comes home to Tampa, where she spent 26 years of her life. Old friends, including Woody Bond (who we profile in this Music Issue), will help Turner’s new album, A Comprehensive Guide To Burning Out, reach its full folk-punk glory after Peach State folk outfit Yankee Roses open the show alongside three Bay area punk bands. (Lucky You Tattoo, St. Petersburg) INFO
✔️ Charm w/Vic Alvarez/Spork One of Tampa’s greatest active punk rock frontmen (Vic Alvarez of Awkward Age) brings a new single (“Flashpoint”/”Straight Line”) to Seminole Heights, where Tampa emo trio Spork also plays support for Greensboro, North Carolina quartet Charm, which is touring behind a cozy and compact new album, Living Room, which it is officially releasing at this record-store gig. Those headed out to the show should consider dancing shoes since frontman Bailey Alley croons like a disco-punk Sinatra on handsome album highlight “Gaze.” This show is early (7 p.m.), all-ages (bring little sister, with earplugs), and affordable ($5), too. (Microgroove, Tampa) INFO
THE BLOCK IS HOT
Photos: Jack Sprouse, Crash Mitchell and more rock the block (party) at Mermaid Tavern and 7venth Sun — 01.20.18
Seminole Heights Block Party w/Dean Johanesen/Jack Sprouse/Patty Kenoly Mermaid Tavern and 7venth Sun Brewery’s neighborhood block party returns and invites three other breweries (Hidden Springs Ale Works, Angry Chair and Brew Bus) plus vendors to this shindig where outlaw-country songwriter Jack Sprouse plays alongside Prohibition-era folkie Dean Johanesen and Lakeland songwriter Patty Kenoly. (Mermaid Tavern and 7venth Sun Brewery, Tampa) INFO
RIP RALPH
Tampa's Ralph Santolla, legendary guitarist for Obituary and Deicide, has died
✔️ Ralph Santolla Memorial Concert It’s been over a month since Obituary, Deicide and Sebastian Bach guitarist Ralph Santolla passed away after being left in a coma following a heart attack, but this public concert invites fans to join friends and family in celebrating the life, legacy and music of the late metal icon. An official lineup will not be released before the show, but there’s a pretty good chance that Obituary (or at least John Tardy) will take the stage at some point in the night. (Brass Mug, Tampa) INFO
Slightly Stoopid/Stick Figure/Pepper Slightly Stoopid’s ninth full-length (Everyday Life, Everyday People) was released last week, and while there’s no way all of the special guests from the effort (UB40’s Ali Campbell, G. Love, Jurassic 5’s Chali 2na and Yellowman to name a few) will show for this Vinoy Park gig, the reggae-rock band will have plenty of good company thanks to dubby NorCal outfit Stick Figure and Cali-by-way-of Hawaii trio Pepper. (Vinoy Park, St Petersburg) INFO
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Tribute/Cover
Dead Set Florida (Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
Coo Coo Ca Choo (Buckets Grill & Tap, Tampa) INFO
Acoustic Thunder (3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg) INFO
One Eyed Jack (Two Buks, Clearwater) INFO
Rock
Sun, Swimsuits, Suds Afterparty w/Bangarang/Bendy Straw/Bangarang/more (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO
Halcyon w/The Cheaters (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa) INFO
Minglewood Productions Slightly Stoopid After Party w/Part One Tribe/Flint Blade (Fubar, St. Petersburg) INFO
The New Division w/NITE/Alpha Quadrant (Orpheum, Ybor City) INFO
Pretty Voices w/Kevin K Band/Mercy Mercy (SubCentral at Iberian Rooster, St. Petersburg) INFO
DJ
So What’cha Want? w/DJ Fader (Orbit 19, Holiday) INFO
Rockin Decades Party 1: Eighties!: The Big Hair Affair w/Beatcave DJs (Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa) INFO
DJ Sandman (Jazz House Supper Club, Tampa) INFO
Blues/Funk
Marvelous Funkshin (Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin) INFO
Liz Pennock & Dr. Blues (Pesky Pelican, St. Petersburg) INFO
Rev. Barry and the Funk (Ringside Cafe, St. Petersburg) INFO
Singer-songwriter
Danielle Mohr (c.1949 Florida Beer Garden, St. Petersburg) INFO
Americana/Folk
Jenu Six & The Old Souls (Crooked Thumb Brewery, Safety Harbor) INFO
EDM
Sunset Saturdays w/Christian Alexander/Heist/more (The Ritz, Ybor City) INFO
Classical/Jazz
Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival 2018 (College of Music at University of South Florida, Tampa) INFO
Beatdown Band (Jazz House Supper Club, Tampa) INFO
Hip-hop
YSL Gunna (Whiskey North, Tampa) INFO
