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What To Watch For: Music
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Lumineers and more of the best upcoming concerts. by Leilani PolkDon’t miss…Tampa Bay’s fall music calendar is always jammed with noteworthy shows, and the 2013 season...
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Concert Review: Bruno Mars, Fitz and the Tantrums at the Forum, Aug. 28
Mars' live show didn't disappoint, even by his robo-talent standards. by Julie GaristoPlaying to a sold-out Tampa Bay Times Forum, Bruno Mars gave disgruntled small-show-lovin' music-heads like me a...
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Live and Local Spotlight: Rec Center 7” Release Party
by Leilani PolkRec Center reveals outtakes from last year’s stunning Tin Year that are just as compelling and gorgeous as the Best of the Bay-winning indie folk-roots album that spawned them on their...
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Live preview/Album review: Poetry n’ Lotion, Electric Acres
by Leilani PolkPoetry n’ Lotion previewed new material last fall with their Octopada EP, and unveils the full-length goods this Friday with the release of Electric Acres. The band’s sophomore album...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: John Mayer, Hip Hop Palooza, Pepper &...
Concerts, Sept. 5-11 by Eric SniderTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5Jason Aldean w/Jake Owen/Thomas Rhett If it wasn’t for that danged Blake Shelton … Jason Aldean as nominated for both Entertainer of the Year...
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Review: Backstreet Boys hit Tampa
A review of the Aug. 23, 2013 show at MidFlorida Credit Union Amp by Melanie WiesenIn 1997, the Backstreet Boys released their debut, Backstreet’s Back, and I was the only person in my second grade...
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Review: Youthful revival with Rancid at Jannus Live, St. Petersburg
Saturday night's show was like being a 16-year-old again. by Justin LittleSeeing Rancid this past Saturday at Jannus Live in St. Petersburg made me feel like I was 16 years old again. It’s been a...
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Live and Local Spotlight: Mrenc CD Release Show
by Leilani PolkThe cover of All Around Surround is a light pollution map of Florida tilted against a featureless black backdrop, a visual that gels with the album’s tensely coiled post-punk and...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: Depeche Mode, J. Cole, Loretta Lynn &...
Concerts, Sept. 12-18 by Leilani PolkTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros w/Willy Mason The Magnetic Zeros are one of those acts you never really expect to catch on — a little...
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J. Cole and Wale bring hip hop to the Straz in Tampa
A look back at the Fri., Sept. 13 show by Andrew SilversteinHip hop at the Straz. The how and why of how this came to be is something I’d definitely be interested in hearing about. Not that Friday...
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Review: Steely Dan stages a set free of deep cuts at Ruth Eckerd Hall,...
A look back at the Sat., Sept. 14 concert. by Eric SniderA packed house — in all its paunchy, gray-haired, facelifted glory — greeted Steely Dan with raucous applause Saturday night at Ruth Eckerd...
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Concert review: Depeche Mode just can't get enough in Tampa
A look back at the Sat., Sept. 14 show with Bat For Lashes; pics included by Gabe Echazabal and Tracy MayLong before Morrissey was fronting The Smiths and writing lamenting tunes for alienated boys...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: Imagine Dragons, Billy Cobham,...
Concerts, Sept. 19-25 by Leilani Polk, Eric Snider and Carol CurrieTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19Travie McCoy The frontman for Gym Class Heroes has lately kept some pretty heady company, including Bruno Mars,...
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Review: Neko Case, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, The Harder I...
by Eric SniderSix years and two albums after her masterpiece Fox Confessor Brings the Flood — for which she essentially established her own, one-woman genre — the peripatetic Neko Case drops the even...
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Review: Tallhart brings it home to Crowbar, Ybor City
A look back at the Sat., Aug. 10 show. by Tyler Killette Three years ago Tampa’s Tallhart (called Marksmen at the time) opened for California pop-rock outfit Rooney. The first of three opening acts at...
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Live and Local Spotlight: Genolexis
by Leilani PolkEugene "Genolexis" Alexis is a Tampa-by-way-of-Brooklyn hip hop artist whose cadence and phrasing are Tupac evocative, as is his manner of stretching out words and gliding through...
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This week in Tampa Bay area live music: The Weeknd, Brian Wilson & Jeff Beck,...
Concerts, Sept. 26-Oct. 2. by Leilani Polk, Eric Snider and Carol CurrieTHURSDAY 26The Weeknd w/Anna Lunoe/Banks Canadian alternative R&B artist/producer The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) has a...
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Review: Janelle Monáe, The Electric Lady
by Colin JoyceKansas City songstress Janelle Monáe was born into the wrong generation. She belongs in the distant dystopian future of her first two records Metropolis and The Archandroid, figured...
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Review: MGMT, MGMT
by Leilani PolkRather than trying to build upon the stylistic strengths of 2010’s Congratulations— which hinted at genius but never quite got beyond posturing — MGMT primaries Andrew VanWyngarden and...
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Two festivals, one night: Plan B in Ybor City / Don't Stop St. Petersburg
A look back at the Oct. 5, 2013 fests. by Leilani Polk, Julie Garisto, Arielle Stevenson, DrunkCameraGuy.com, Phil Bardi, Brian Mahar and Daniel VeintimillaAttempting to cover two giant music fests...
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