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Check out the concert breakdown for this Sat., Oct. 3...
Rose Quartz with PLEASURES Confession: I’m tired of indietronica. The wave that started several years back has crashed and drowned me with an overabundance of ‘80s-influenced synth-driven sounds, like a flashback to my youth I no longer want to relive. Though Rose Quartz has been hailed as Denver’s next big thing, and has been warming the stage for the likes of St. Lucia and Future Islands, tracks off latest Axis of Love EP evokes the same vaguely discofied groove vibe all their contemporaries seem stuck on right now. Not bad, just not terribly groundbreaking or interesting. PLEASURES, at least, will liven the proceedings with their (Best of the Bay-winning) space-faring psychedelic fizz. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
Sarah Mac Band CD Release Party She’s from Tallahassee but Sarah Mac has cultivated a respectable stable of devotees in Tampa Bay over the past few years, hence the motivation behind the soulful folk-blues songstress’ CD release party at Hideaway in celebration of Florida, a record dedicated to the state she and her band (bassist/singer Claire Swindell and guitarist/singer Charlie Vanture) currently call home. (Hideaway Café& Recording Studio, St. Petersburg)
Post-Rays Concert Series: Steve Aoki This season of the Post-Rays Concert series has been a rather mixed bag. We’ve seen alt-country with teeth (Kacey Musgraves), regular country without teeth (Lee Brice) vanilla flavored pop-rock (Sister Hazel), children’s music (Kidz Bop), and old school pop-soul (The Jacksons). The series appears to be drawing to a close with Steve Aoki, who brings his confetti-vibrant electro dance anthems to the baseball field stage following the game between the Rays and the Jays. (Tropicana Field, Tampa)
Onward, Etc. with American Opera, The Ghost Pines The folk-Americana project of Midwestern singer-songwriter Rosco Wuestewald, Onward Etc. finds Wuestenwald’s guitar thrashes and sandpaper-scraped howls joined by longtime static bandmate, violin player/bow smoker KC Olsen, and a rotating lineup of players that changes from city to city and add their own distinct flavor to his galloping folk-Americana, which balances poignancy with punk grit in wildly infectious odes about living life and raising hell ala the whisky war cry of “Pass the Bottle.” (Local 662, St. Petersburg)
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Blue Note Vinyl Listening Party & Daddy Kool Records Pop-up Shop Audio Visions South, Tampa
The Sauce Boss Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
Corey Smith w/Strung Like a Horse Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
Skinny D & the Hot Rod Truckers /The Funeral Dazies/Lips of Blood The Amsterdam, St. Petersburg
The Welzeins/Part Time Models/Ask For Tiger/Soapbox Soliloquy Fubar, St. Petersburg
Monstrosity/Impurity/Insatanity/Shattered/Foreshadow Brass Mug, Tampa
Concerts for a Cause feat. The Superstars The Landing at Waterset, Riverview
The Urban Gypsies Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
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Check out the concert breakdown for this Sat., Oct. 3...Rose Quartz with PLEASURES Confession: I’m tired of indietronica. The wave that started several years back has crashed and drowned me with an overabundance of ‘80s-influenced synth-driven sounds, like a flashback to my youth I no longer want to relive. Though Rose Quartz has been hailed as Denver’s next big thing, and has been warming the stage for the likes of St. Lucia and Future Islands, tracks off latest Axis of Love EP evokes the same vaguely discofied groove vibe all their contemporaries seem stuck on right now. Not bad, just not terribly groundbreaking or interesting. PLEASURES, at least, will liven the proceedings with their (Best of the Bay-winning) space-faring psychedelic fizz. (Crowbar, Ybor City)
Sarah Mac Band CD Release Party She’s from Tallahassee but Sarah Mac has cultivated a respectable stable of devotees in Tampa Bay over the past few years, hence the motivation behind the soulful folk-blues songstress’ CD release party at Hideaway in celebration of Florida, a record dedicated to the state she and her band (bassist/singer Claire Swindell and guitarist/singer Charlie Vanture) currently call home. (Hideaway Café& Recording Studio, St. Petersburg)
Post-Rays Concert Series: Steve Aoki This season of the Post-Rays Concert series has been a rather mixed bag. We’ve seen alt-country with teeth (Kacey Musgraves), regular country without teeth (Lee Brice) vanilla flavored pop-rock (Sister Hazel), children’s music (Kidz Bop), and old school pop-soul (The Jacksons). The series appears to be drawing to a close with Steve Aoki, who brings his confetti-vibrant electro dance anthems to the baseball field stage following the game between the Rays and the Jays. (Tropicana Field, Tampa)
Onward, Etc. with American Opera, The Ghost Pines The folk-Americana project of Midwestern singer-songwriter Rosco Wuestewald, Onward Etc. finds Wuestenwald’s guitar thrashes and sandpaper-scraped howls joined by longtime static bandmate, violin player/bow smoker KC Olsen, and a rotating lineup of players that changes from city to city and add their own distinct flavor to his galloping folk-Americana, which balances poignancy with punk grit in wildly infectious odes about living life and raising hell ala the whisky war cry of “Pass the Bottle.” (Local 662, St. Petersburg)
ALSO TODAY
Blue Note Vinyl Listening Party & Daddy Kool Records Pop-up Shop Audio Visions South, Tampa
The Sauce Boss Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
Corey Smith w/Strung Like a Horse Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
Skinny D & the Hot Rod Truckers /The Funeral Dazies/Lips of Blood The Amsterdam, St. Petersburg
The Welzeins/Part Time Models/Ask For Tiger/Soapbox Soliloquy Fubar, St. Petersburg
Monstrosity/Impurity/Insatanity/Shattered/Foreshadow Brass Mug, Tampa
Concerts for a Cause feat. The Superstars The Landing at Waterset, Riverview
The Urban Gypsies Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
