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Over one long weekend, 24 campers wrote original songs and played a concert for hundreds. It was about so much more than the music.

Sometimes, Florida’s reputation of having notoriously pathetic winters isn’t the worst thing, because Thursday night, 69-year-old Elvis Costello came out to his first Tampa Bay concert in nearly half a decade rocking a plaid kilt with a matching tam hat, white knee-high socks, and a black button-down.

Before last weekend, the last time Ed Sheeran performed in Tampa Bay—or, for that matter, Florida period—was two years ago at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, on the ten-year anniversary of his debut album, + (pronounced “plus”). Since then, he has suffered a bout of COVID-19, lost his best friend Jamal Edwards, and was at his wife Cherry Seaborn’s bedside during a second pregnancy and simultaneous tumor diagnosis that couldn’t be resolved until the couple&rsqu...

“Whenever we start playing that song, ‘Asphalt Meadows,’ usually all I can smell is weed,” Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard announced to a shoulder-to-shoulder packed Jannus Live Tuesday night. But in this case, all Ben was getting was cigar smoke. “It’s the weirdest fuckin’ thing. It just keeps going.”

[image-6] Legendary British rock and roll band The Who is still at it, despite carrying on with only two original members leading the pack. Out on the road in America for the umpteenth time since the band’s first visit to our shores in 1967, the group’s core consists of founding members, lead vocalist and front man Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter/singer Pete Townshend. For its current jaunt, billed as “The Who Hits Back!,” the band has employed the accompaniment of...

It's a long way to America from Australia, and Vacations' U.S. fans have been making the trip worth it for the Aussie indie-rock band by selling out pretty much every stop on its run through the red, white and blue in support of a pandemic-released new album, Forever In Bloom. Saturday's show at Crowbar in Ybor City was no exception and made extra special by the recent birthday of Vacations drummer Joey van Lier.

Singer-songwriter Teddy Swims performed in front a packed house last Friday at Ybor City's Orpheum. R&B artist Stephen Day played support. 

Reggae Rise Up 2022 returned to St. Pete’s Vinoy Park last weekend. The eighth annual festival featured top bill artists like Rebelution, Soja , Slightly Stoopid, Steel Pulse and more. 

[image-12] You’ve at least heard of Gasparilla Music Festival, so you know that you’re not gonna leave a festival that has a stacked lineup without a new favorite band or artist. Innings Fest—previously only available in Arizona—is just another installment of that ideology, and more.

On Wednesday, March 16 at the Orpheum, Grandson gave local fans a dose EDM-influenced hard-rock trap, and plenty of support from Oxymorrons and R.A.T.S.