A breakdown of shows happening this Hump Day — Wed., Aug. 5.The Appleseed Cast with Dikembe Though Chris Crisci remains the only member from The Appleseed Cast’s original lineup, he still has cause to celebrate this tour around, which marks the 15th anniversary of seminal fan favorite, Mare Vitalis, re-issued earlier this year. His band’s second full-length is a conceptual work on the life and movements of the sea, and marked a departure from the angsty emo of their debut to more textured, intricate and atmospheric post-rock with guitar arpeggios and complex percussive-washed drumming patterns. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
BBQ Wednesday Acoustic Series with Hey Sleeper Serenading the barbecue-chomping crowd at this latest edition of the Hump Day music series is Hey Sleeper, brewed in England and fueled by the quiet lovely vocal intones and restrained acoustic guitar melodies of singer-songwriter Luke Roberts, who writes lines like “I’m a split screen with your old life” and “Buried under snowdrifts or dressed in dinner suits and ties / we sell ourselves another pack of lies” in his cheekily self-styled “long slow death music.” (New World Brewery, Ybor City)
Floetry English duo Floetry (Marsha Ambrosius, “the Songstress,” and Natalie Stewart, “the Floacist”) started on the slam poetry stage before coming together and producing two critically-acclaimed albums of “poetic delivery with musical intent”– a fine groove-hawking mix of hip hop, neo-soul and R&B, with Ambrosius belting robust vocals and Stewart laying down velvety rhymes before they parted ways to work on their respective solo careers. They came together for a few performances last year, and in February confirmed they’d be reuniting for a full scale nationwide tour that hits Tampa Bay on this night. (Ferguson Hall at Straz Center for Performing Arts, Tampa)
10 Years with Nonpoint, The Family Ruin, Awaken The Empire This bill of veteran heavy acts has its roots in the more melodic end of the early-'00s mu-metal scene. From Knoxville, 10 Years has been active since the millennium's turn, with a sixth album, From Birth To Burial, just out this past April. State Theatre regulars will surely recognize Fort Lauderdale's Nonpoint, which has been coming to town and pummeling fans since '97. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg) —Scott Harrell
ALSO TONIGHT
Freedom/Fury/Unified Right/Blind Authority/Society Abuse/ Crisis Unit/Sick Of Talk Epic Problem, Tampa