Tonight in live music: Panda Elliot, Gringo Star, Chris Brown & more
A nice healthy serving of shows happening this Fri., Sept. 4. Check out the breakdown below, and peep what's coming up this weekend.Panda Elliot Young Argentine songstress Panda Elliot made her big...
View ArticleWeekend Tune-Up: Tunes for your weekend by Illa J, Harrison Brome, Tropics &...
Ahhhhh... September is here, football has started, and we are going into Labor Day weekend; it doesn't get much better. Good thing you'll have your new Weekend Tune-Up to accompany through the long...
View ArticleThis Saturday in live music: Keith Sweat, James Leg, The Orb, Michael Allman...
Hey, it's Saturday! Check out what's happening on this fifth day in September below...James Leg with Russ Van Cleave The Black Diamond Heavies make some raucous blues-licked punk-kicking rock n’ roll...
View ArticleThis Sunday in live music: The Mantras, Damon's Duos
A quick look at a few noteworthy shows taking place this Sun., Sept. 6... You have the day off tomorrow - go have some fun.The Mantras A jam rock sextet from Greensboro, N.C., with two drummers, two...
View ArticleDavid Liebe Hart brings outsider music to New World Brewery
Fans of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim’s cult classic Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! get a chance on Saturday to see one of the show’s breakout stars in person. David Liebe Hart is a puppeteer...
View ArticleWatch: "Outta My Mind" video by Black Keys side project The Arcs
“Busy” doesn’t quite do The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney justice. “Busy” implies that there’s things that need to be done. A handful of side and solo projects, a collaborative rap album,...
View ArticleThe latest This Is Everything podcast gets to the bottom of Tallhart's breakup
There once was a Tampa Bay band named Marksmen that drummed up a rather mighty buzz, got discovered by Say Anything's Max Bemis, and signed to his Equal Vision Records imprint, Rory Records, after...
View ArticleReel Deal Thursdays presents Over the Edge with Rec Center & The New Granada...
Over The Edge director Jonathan Kaplan had absolutely no way of really knowing this, since N.W.A. wouldn’t release its debut LP for another nine years (and the highly acclaimed biopic about the SoCal...
View ArticleTampa Bay History Center unveils Florida’s Got The Blues
Even for the most casual of fans, the Tampa Bay History Center’s Florida’s Got The Blues exhibition is an eye-opening walk into the state’s role in dictating the arc of not just one particular beloved...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Purity Ring, Ed Sheeran, Mick Jenkins
Hey look — there's some music happening on this Thurs., Sept. 10. Take a look at the breakdown below...Purity Ring Corin Roddick handles all the knob turning and production when it comes to Purity...
View ArticleWMNF celebrates its 36th birthday with Suénalo
It’s taken pretty much a literal army of staff, volunteers, and listener-supporters, plus a whole lot of word of mouth, to keep the airwaves pumping at WMNF 88.5-FM over the years. It’s only going to...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Zappa Plays Zappa, NGTMRE, Zach Deputy & more
Some artists are throwing down jams on both sides of the bay on this fine Fri., Sept. 11. Take a look at the breakdown below. We've also included a breakdown of shows coming up this weekend for your...
View ArticleBig Grams (Big Boi & Phantogram) drops first single, “Fell in the Sun”
You gotta love it when you hear a track for the first time and it’s so good you actually feel a physical sensation wash over you. That’s Big Grams'“Fell In the Sun.” The first single from Big Boi and...
View ArticleWeekend Tune-Up: Tunes for your weekend by Steven A. Clark, The Dead Weather,...
Monday's holiday made this a blessedly short work week, and here we are again, on the brink of enjoying another lovely weekend. By this point, following the Weekend Tune-Up on Spotify should be second...
View ArticleThis Saturday in live music: Afroman, Tremonti & Trivium, Localpalooza & more
A quick look at some shows happening this Sat., Sept. 12...Tremonti, Trivium with Wilson“HardDrive Live Tour” If you saw the word “Tremonti” and went “holy crap, I bet that’s a band by former Creed...
View ArticleConcert review: Purity Ring at The Ritz Ybor, Ybor City
The last time Purity Ring came to town, the Canadian electro duo hit the Orpheum behind 2012 full-length debut, Shrines. More than two years later, they returned in support of sophomore follow-up,...
View ArticleThis Sunday in live music: Unleash the Archers, Van Halen, Richard Shindell
It's the live music breakdown for this Sun., Sept. 13. Unleash The Archers with Hibria, Archangel Joke about polite Canadians all you want, but Victoria, BC’s female-fronted Unleash The Archers is...
View ArticleKelly Clarkson cancels her stops in Tampa and West Palm Beach
American Idol's premiere sweetheart had to cancel her scheduled dates in Tampa and West Palm Beach on September 15 (at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater) and 17, respectively. In her official...
View ArticleConcert review: Van Halen returns to Tampa
Rainstorms early in the day mercifully cleared out some of the late-summer humidity in time for the Van Halen show at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Sunday night, drawing a respectable...
View ArticleAward-winning Rhymefest documentary, In My Father's House, comes to Tampa
One of Chicago's great underrated hip hop talents — an emcee's emcee, if you will — Che “Rhymefest” Smith started earning some buzz in 2004 after co-writing Kanye West's Grammy-winning "Jesus Walks,"...
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