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Fall Arts Preview 2014: Music
As the summer heat retreats, the fall concert blitzkrieg starts in earnest, making it rather difficult to narrow it down to a mere handful of highlights. So as in Fall Arts issues past, I’ve grouped...
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Tonight in live music: Steel Pulse
Jamaica-born, England-raised Steel Pulse vocalist/frontman David Hinds has dreadlocks as thick as my wrists and as long as my arms, supposedly a measure of his wisdom, maturity and knowledge,...
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Live and Local Spotlight: Jazz Benefit for Linda Nash
Full disclosure: Linda Nash is not only a local jazz flutist of some renown but mom to former Food Editor and current freelancer Arielle Stevenson. Nash happens to command no small amount of respect...
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Summer Jam 10 schedule released
After 10 years of great tunes, great times and doing that funny-looking drunken jog/shamble/stumble between New World and Crowbar, Summer Jam — arguably Ybor's finest homegrown DIY music fest — is...
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Those Darlins, Matt Butcher, A.J. Vincent lead Plan B Festival initial lineup
A year removed from the schism that derailed one of St. Petersburg's most promising music festivals, organizers of Antiwarpt offshoot Plan B seem to have the negativity well in the rear-view.The...
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El-P and Killer Mike announce new Run The Jewels album, share first track,...
El-P and Killer Mike, the two-headed hip-hop monster known as Run the Jewels, have announced the follow-up album to their excellent 2013 debut Run the Jewels. Thoughtfully titled RTJ2, the new album...
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Tonight in live music: Tori Amos, Crocodiles, Donavon Frankenreiter & more
A jam-packed Friday. Check out what's happening below. Tori Amos The fiery-haired piano-banging songstress was the first female artist who grabbed my heart — were Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink...
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This weekend in live music: Janiva Magness, Welcome the New PA with The...
A look at what's happening in live music this Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 23-24. (The Pauses!!)SATURDAY, AUGUST 23Welcome the New PA with The Pauses, The Pals, The Patients New World has a new PA, have...
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Photo review: Birthday girl Tori Amos gives Ruth Eckerd Hall a gift
Tori Amos spent her 51st birthday with a crowd of fans in tiaras and feather headbands this past Friday night at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. While the coke-bottle glasses may have belied the fact...
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Babyfaces of Death: The well-adjusted headbangers of Southern Darkness Fest.
“Sludge metal has more vocals. Doom metal is more consistently slow, and it’s got more of a stoner rock influence.” Evan Chebot knows his metal microgenres, and he came all the way from Orlando to soak...
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Album review: FKA twigs' LP1
Probably the most impressive thing about LP1, the debut from postmodern UK torch singer FKA twigs, is that it’s not entirely what it seems to be at first. From the singer’s artsy-as-in-weird visual...
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Ryan Adams has 30 minutes of new rock & roll that'll save your workday
If you don't already own a copy of Ryan Adams'1984 7-inch, then you probably never will. The physical copies of one of the more raucous records from the the 39-year-old singer-songwriter sold out long...
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New Music Monday & Tuesday! (August 25-26): Ariana Grande, Merchandise,...
It’s the last batch of new releases in August. Where did the time go? Info and links for this week’s releases – the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard...
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Don't Stop St. Pete Festival will announce 2014 lineup at relocated, expanded...
Antiwarpt Music Festival stepchild Plan-B Music Festival announced its initial lineup last week, and while the music community seems to have moved past the drama surrounding Antiwarpt's keeling over,...
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Live and Local Spotlight: The Mojo Gurus Album Release Party
The Mojo Gurus have been a staple of the Tampa Bay music scene for the past decade, made up of four practiced musicians as led by force-of-nature frontman and songwriter Kevin Steele, whose gritty...
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Life as we blow it: Digital outrage
Last week, in a profile of Tampa band Merchandise posted to uber-hip arts and culture outlet Dazed, frontman Carson Cox had this to say about his new album, After the End, and his hometown:“I’m proud...
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The last damn jam
Joe D’Acunto’s heart isn’t on his sleeve. It’s in his mouth, ready to be unleashed at a moment’s notice. And regardless of the situation — be it a mellow afternoon chat at New World Brewery or a...
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Summer Jam 10: Must-see acts
While the Summer Jam 10 lineup only encompasses 13 bands – relatively light in lieu of other multi-act, multi-venue music events – every single one is worthy of your attention. So, which to choose?...
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Tonight in live music: Brother Cephus CD release show
Amid the roots acts that froth up so frequently from the Tampa Bay talent pool, Brother Cephus— the project of Tampa-based bros Seth and Gabriel Davis — stands out with strong songwriting and a firm...
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Tonight in live music: Freekbass, Ben Prestage, Displace Welcome Home Show &...
A nice smattering of live music this Friday night, leaning to jammy, funky, rootsy, bluesy sounds...Freekbass & the Bump Assembly Underrated and generally under-known bassis/vocalist Chris...
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