Hey, it's Saturday, and there's live music happening all over town. Take a look at a breakdown of tuneful happening this July 11.Neon Trees with Coin, Fictionist Last year proved a busy one for Neon Trees, and after relentless touring behind third album Pop Psychology, the synth pop quartet from Provo, Utah decided to take a year off. ‘Cept, they got bored, and cut the hiatus short with a tour announcement, “An Intimate Night with Neon Trees,” which would take them to smaller venues and touch on all three albums, in addition to a brand new (just released in May) single of upbeat New Wave-flavored loneliness, “Songs I Can’t Listen To,” inspired by that feeling you get when you hear a song that’s inexorably linked to an ex-lover. Also of note: fellow Provo natives Fictionist, their melody-drenched alt rock taking intriguing forays into psychedelic and progressive territories, though more recent sounds have more electro-pop-groove textures and beat-mining. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)
Chad Price and Scott Reynolds Chad Price fronts pop-punk group ALL and co-pilots alt-country outfit Drag the River with Jon Snodgrass. Scott Reynolds also led ALL for a span, prior to Price’s tenure, and has since done stints in, among others, punk rock band The Pavers, an acoustic lounge-style project, Scott Reynolds and the Steaming Beast, and most recently, punk-metal kickers Bonesaw Romance. The two teamed up for some solo dates back in 2011, and re-convene for another run this summer. (New World Brewery, Ybor City)
Shoeless Soul EP Release Party with Chris Sgmmato, No Need Shoeless Soul, the self-styled Dunedin-brewed “Prozac pop” group led by singer-guitarist Rene Schlegel with Sladjan Vidic (bass, drums), Dave Gerulat (drums, percussion, backing vocals) and Mike Ratza (sax, etc.) celebrate the release of a new EP that puts Schlegel’s feel good fusion of reggae and jazz-infused pop front and center. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa)
Delta Rae April saw the release of Delta Rae’s sophomore LP, After It All, the title track a dramatic emotionally-charged ode that builds from quiet and pretty acoustic guitar-plucked foray with cooing vocal harmonies to a grandiose folk rock epic with lush instrumentals and soaring choruses that eventually wind back down to a quiet conclusion. “My Whole Life Long” proves a groovier folk rock ramble and country-tinged ride with masculine-feminine lead vocal trade-offs and interweavings, and an overall warm AC appeal. The siblings-fueled group has earned the high seal of approval from Fleetwood Mac alum Lindsey Buckingham; so much, in fact, that they re-released a track off their debut, “If I Loved You,” that featured added passages on 12-string acoustic guitar by the man himself. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
Underhill Family Orchestra With a potent blend of urgent folk rock drive, dust-stained Western swing, haunting Southern gothic Americana and exuberant rock n’ roll comes Underhill Family Orchestra. The Alabama delivers multi-voice choruses that sound like soulful spirituals brightened by the clear dulcet intones of Joelle Underhill and bolstered by washes of twinkling percussion and tambourine, outbursts of hand-clapping, and finely wrought instrumentals that slow down to a pretty and restrained pace or pick up to more explosively charged tempos. Underhill Family Orchestra plays with Zulu Wave and Fistful at Fubar this Saturday night. They’ll also be hitting the New World stage on Sunday with support from The Dram and Urbane Cowboys. (Fubar, St. Petersburg)
ALSO TONIGHT
Axe Handle Hound/Funny Bunny/Maves Arcade Brass Mug, Tampa
Mark Huhta & Geoff Abraham Hideaway Café& Recording Studio, St. Petersburg
Geri X/Soapbox Soliloquy/Ella Jet The Bends, St. Petersburg
Hip Hop 360: DEA + Saint/Scott Tanner/Dynasty/The Real Clash/Cypher Jam The Amsterdam, St. Petersburg
Hot Rod Hornets w/Ramblegrass Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Serious Soul, The Residents: Busto/Kbros/Glen S Hyde Park Café, Tamap
Jah Movement Ringside Café, St. Petersburg
Local Summer Fest: Victims of Circumstance/ShinraCo/Bargain Bin Heroes/A Gentlemen Army/Cash For Soul/High Local 662, St. Petersburg
Permanent Makeup w/The Elsinores/J Marinelli/Snakehole/Eliot Mayo The Nine 10, St. Petersburg