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New Music Tuesday! (February 17): The Juliana Hatfield Three, Imagine...
I've been getting away from the comprehensive breakdown to a more curated New Music Tuesday list. I'll still be including info for the majority of albums out this week, but have spolighted the ones...
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Tonight in live music: Against Me!, Dave Mason's Traffic Jam, Diana Ross
A breakdown of shows happening this Wed., Feb. 18...Against Me! with Creepoid, The Worriers Against Me! is the true embodiment of punk rock, producing a bevy of politically-charged anthems over its...
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Blowfly brings his explicit brand of merriment to Brass Mug for his 76th...
Clarence Reid, aka Blowfly, "the Original Dirty Rapper,” turned 76 on Valentine's Day and is celebrating his just-beyond-mid-septuagenarian status with rambunctious Tampa punk bands Abortion Twins and...
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Gasparilla Arts Month: Gasparilla Music Festival
Sat.-Sun., March 7-8, Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park and Kiley Garden, downtown Tampa. Two-day pass: $60, VIP $150; Saturday GA: $40, VIP $100; Sunday GA: $30, VIP $75. VIP ticket includes access to...
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Tonight in live music: Al Di Meola, The Wailers, Gulf Shores, Nate Najar Quartet
A breakdown of shows happening this Thurs., Feb. 19...Al Di Meola Fusion guitarist Al Di Meola has issued no less than 23 full-lengths in the nearly four decades since leaving Return to Forever, his...
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Blur announce first album in 12 years, The Magic Whip, share lyric video for...
Announced earlier today from a press conference in a London Chinese restaurant (happy New Year!), Blur will release their first album in 12 years, The Magic Whip, due out April 27 internationally and...
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Clearwater Seafood & Blues Festival brings Amos Lee, Robert Randolph & others...
Two days, nearly a dozen blues-rooted artists, and all manner of fare caught fresh from the sea — yup, it’s the Clearwater Sea-Blues Fest. The ninth annual edition proves more appealing than ever. A...
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Tonight in live music: Kristian Nairn's "Rave of Thrones," The Music of Styx...
A look at some live music happenings taking place this Fri., Feb. 20, from classic to bizarre....Kristian Nairn You know him as Hodor, the lumbering half-wit from HBO’s epic fantasy series Game of...
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This weekend in live music: Ryan Bingham & Lucero, Hyperbolic Chamber Music...
A breakdown of shows taking place this Sat.-Sun., Feb. 21-22.SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21The Nields Katryna and Nerissa Nields have been crafting songs together most of their adult lives – at least since...
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Concert review: Justin Townes Earle with Gill Landry at Crowbar, Ybor City
What does it mean to be a country musician in this day and age? For some, it means singing about souped-up pick-up trucks and red solo cups. For others, it means straddling the past and the present,...
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Tonight in live music: Trash Talk at Orpheum, Ybor City
If you missed the last minute free show that happened in Ybor last June, thrash punk torchbearers and Odd Future compatriots Trash Talk return behind fifth full-length album, No Peace Yesterday. First...
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Album review: Dan Deacon, Gliss Riffer
Dan Deacon’s ultra-high-energy electro-punk records are advertisements for his even-more-ultra-high energy concerts. Partly, this is true for the same reasons it’s true for every musician these days –...
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New Music Tuesday! (February 24): Iron & Wine, Big Sean, Emile Haynie, Gang...
It's your weekly curated list of new releases. This marks the final set of albums that come out in February and damn, this month sure did fly by. Info and hyperlinks for your further perusal included,...
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Album review: Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Drake shook up the music industry on February 13 with his sudden iTunes release of If You're Reading This It's Too Late. No leak. No advertisement. No problem. He sold over 500,000 copies in the first...
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St. Petersburg Jazz Festival brings five days of grooves to four area venues
Now in its seventh season, the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival returns for another five evening’s worth of concerts, which finds some of the elite musicians who keep our local jazz scene a vital and...
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The Hip Hop ABCs: Letter A; vote on Letter B
Over a year ago, Infinite Skillz ran a series of Facebook polls asking friends, peers and overall passionate hip hop fans which emcee or group they felt was the best in the game as driven by the...
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Tonight in live music: RL Grime, The Expendables & more
A rather interesting lineup of live music on this Thurs., Feb. 16. A breakdown of highlights below...lRL Grime with Djemba Djemba, Tommy Kruise Bouncing up from the bowels of Los Angeles’ EDM scene is...
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Rockin’ the booze: Recipes for music-inspired bevvies.
About a dozen years ago, I threw a blowout so bombastic it required its own signature cocktail. The resulting Pink Floyd Electric Lemonade was a smash hit that my friends took to calling “Comfortably...
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Chuck D talks Race, Rap, and Reality at Eckerd College
I could tell you that Chuck D is funnier than you might expect him to be. I could tell you that he is simultaneously a commanding presence and a humble man simply living out his plan. I could remind...
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Tonight in live music: Indigo Girls with Symphony Orchestra, Pleasures,...
A big slate of live music on this Fri., Feb. 27. Check it out below. No word word yet as to whether or not the shows at State Theatre and Local 662 will go on as usual in light of the (sinkhole? burst...
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