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Tonight in live music: The Relationship, Flogging Molly, Christworm
Three noteworthy shows this Hump Day Wednesday (May 6). Breakdown below.The Relationship with Gringo Star, Zulu Wave, Infinite Eights When your name is attached to Weezer, it’s hard for people not to...
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Way Back Wednesday: A Tribe Called Quest
Welcome to another installment of Way Back Wednesday, where I remind you about some classic groups from way back... Those who know me personally are well aware of my admiration for A Tribe Called...
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Concert review: Neutral Milk Hotel at Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater
It's near impossible for me to remain detached and objective about anything, but the words that come when I think back on the Neutral Milk Hotel show at Ruth Eckerd Hall on Monday evening —...
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Tonight in live music: Rock the Park with Coyotes & others, ZZ Top with Jeff...
A look at some shows happening this Thurs., May 7.Rock the Park with Coyotes, The Grid, Bomba Body & Dancing Co On this very special May edition of the monthly outdoor concert series, Rock the...
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Big Guava Music Festival returns to the Florida State Fairgrounds with all...
You could pretty much lock every Big Guava act inside a heart-shaped “alternative” box and call it a day. But that’d be oversimplifying the fest’s broad scope, which is reflective of what’s happening...
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Tonight in live music: Tauk, Betty Fox Band CD Release Party, Jimmie Fadden &...
A breakdown of live music happening this Fri., May 8...Tauk with Displace, DJ K-Slat With guitars that vary from heavy distorted chord progressions to more complex fret dancing, a mix of whizzing keys...
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New study determines which drugs are the most popular at different music...
For many, music festivals are just socially acceptable means of escaping civilization and doing a bunch of drugs in the woods with friends, which isn’t anything new or interesting. What is interesting...
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The Hip Hop ABCs: The winner of Letter K; vote on Letter L
I’m not even going to beat around the bush. If the Hip Hop ABCs had a tournament of champions, my money would be on this week’s winner. Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody and that includes...
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Weekend Tune-Up: Tunes for your weekend by My Morning Jacket, Van Hunt, Best...
We just passed a huge New Music Tuesday (which is always covered by Creative Loafing) that treated us to so many much-anticipated albums.My Morning Jacket, Best Coast, Django Django, and RJD2 have...
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This Saturday in live music: Steel Panther, Five Eight, Mat Kearney & more
What are you doing tonight? Lots happening as far as live music goes on this Sat., May 9, in addition to Big Guava. Check it out below. Steel Panther with Like A Storm On first listen, it sounds...
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CL at Big Guava: Live Tweets, Streams, and Photos from the two-day festival
Happy Friday party people. If you're still nursing a hangover from last night, take a look outside your window (or better yet open it and smell the fresh air) because it's beautiful in Tampa today.Big...
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This Sunday in live music: Appleseed Collective, Shy Girls, Order of the Owl,...
Look, it's more music! Check out what's happening this Sun., May 10, below. Appleseed Collective A bright, boisterous and exceedingly charming Americana quartet from Ann Arbor, Mich., Appleseed...
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Tonight in live music: FIDLAR with METZ, Bette Midler, Sarah Lee Guthrie &...
I bet you didn't think there'd be so much music happening this Mon., May 11. Check out the daily breakdown below.FIDLAR with METZ The hype leading up to the release of FIDLAR’s 2013 self-titled debut...
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Tonight in live music: Speedy Ortiz at Crowbar
It’s been nearly two years since the release of Speedy Ortiz’s 2013 full-length Major Arcana, an album awash in distorted guitars, quietly disturbing arrangements and more than enough soul-searching...
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Concert Review: Bette Midler's Divine Intervention Tour at the Amalie Arena
Bette Midler’s career has long thrived on incongruities: tiny woman, big voice; heartfelt balladeer, bawdy vaudevilian; Bathhouse Betty, mainstream movie star; dramatic actress, camp goddess. Now that...
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New Music Tuesday! (May 12): Steve Aoki, Prefuse 73, Snoop Dogg, The Tallest...
Hey look — we have reached the second week of May, which means more new releases! A curated list below featuring info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you...
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Tonight in live music: Jason Isbell, Minus the Bear, Needtobreathe
A look at three noteworthy concerts happening this Wed., May 13.Jason Isbell I bet guitar-slinging singer-songwriter Jason Isbell gets tired of being labeled as the ‘Drive-By Truckers former,’ but...
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11 Reasons Why You Should Be Bummed About Missing Big Guava Music Festival
The Florida rainstorm is one the damndest things about living in the “Sunshine State,” and where veritable downpours put a damper on last year’s excellent Big Guava lineup, mother nature showed the...
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Live and Local Spotlight: DEA + Saint
From delivering existential quandaries over spacey stripped-backed production in “One” (“Consider the possibility, that everything you thought you know, is wrong / mankind has pondered the millennia,...
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Local “new punk” Jasmine Deja juggles multiple instruments and projects
It’s Saturday, the last night of Tropical Heatwave, and just a mile away from the WMNF festivities, dozens of polished crust-punks and hip-trip liaisons gather at the Frolic Exchange, an eclectic...
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