It's Friday, May 15, hurray! Here's the daily breakdown of shows happening all over town...Old Crow Medicine Show with The Devil Makes Three From busking on street corners to playing 2,000-cap venues and earning a Best Folk Album Grammy for their ninth studio LP, Remedy, Old Crow Medicine Show have come a rather long way. And while acts like Mumford & Sons sky-rocket to arena rocking fame and have plugged-in as a result, Old Crow keeps it traditional with their old timey string band and Dylan-influenced Americana sound, while adding drums and percussion and all manner of other instrumentation – banjo, fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, resonator guitar, accordion, guitjo, upright bass and keys included – and setting their twangy multi-part harmonies against it. Another act practicing vintage folk sounds but incorporating elements of gypsy jazz, bluegrass, ragtime, country-blues and rockabilly, The Devil Makes Three, has a more darkly beguiling appeal. (Jannus Live, St. Petersburg)
Rockabilly Battle Royale The premise is nothing if not intriguing: “a free-for-all rockabilly jam where a band member is swapped out every song so there's never the same band twice.” The participants touch on some of the Bay area’s finest vintage rockers – Cadillac Bombers, Midnight Bowlers League, Hairdresser on Fire, Hot Rod Hornets, Six Volt Rodeo, Little Sheba and the Shamans, and Johnny Zoom Hi Fi Show – so the promise of mayhem seems like one that’ll most assuredly be kept. Put on your dancing shoes. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
The Maine with Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, The Technicolors Fresh off the heels of releasing fifth full-length of sanguine alt rock, American Candy, The Maine hits St. Pete with support from Real Friends, which was named as one of the “Top 10 New School Pop-Punk Bands You Need To Know” by Billboard last year and is supporting a fresh their debut LP, Maybe This Place Is the Same and We're Just Changing. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)
Trinity 7 with Tropic Wave A mere two weeks ago, Trinity 7 serenaded Tropical Heatwave audiences with spiritual, political, posi-vibing songs set to grooving and swaying roots reggae instrumentals. The locally-based ensemble hits the Skipperdome stage for another go ‘round as led by Jamaica-born singer Ras Meishak. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa)
ALSO TONIGHT
Zed’s Dead Amphitheatre, Ybor City
Ed Kowalczyk Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
Albert Castiglia Band Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Pierce Pettis w/Brooke Ramel Hideaway Café& Recording Studio, St. Petersburg
The Tornadoes & Hurricanes Tour w/Worhol/Urn/Remedy X/Virgina Rose Band Brass Mug, Tampa
The PANGAEA PROJECT No.59: Proxemia w/Banned/Alma Contra/Shortwave Freq The Venture Compound, St. Petersburg
Beach Day w/Archaic Interest/Buffalo Wizards The Bends, St. Petersburg