Openings Chef’s Table Chef’s Table by Lolita’s, a multi-course tasting menu from the owners of St. Pete’s Lolita’s Wine Market, welcomes its first customers this weekend. Inspired by L...
Tampa Bay's live music weekend is upon us once again, this time featuring Black Joe Lewis, Dave Matthews Band, Chappell Roan and more. This listing of Tampa Bay's best live music happening May 1...
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It’s been a busy 10 days for The Florida Orchestra, which played two shows with Sting and performed a packed public park Mother’s Day show last weekend. Maestro Michael Francis & co. shift b...
https://www.cltampa.com/music/florida-orchestras-elgars-enigma-weekend-kicks-off-thursday-17822005
Synthwave is an unfair tag for Doom Flamingo. The South Carolina sextet is a festival scene favorite with a lineup that includes Umphrey’s McGee cofounder and bassist Ryan Stasik, Oukuo princi...
You learn a lot about showbiz after playing close to 6,000 concerts. Jim Heath, leader of psychobilly icon Reverend Horton Heat can still make his red Gretsch wail and looks like a country-rock ...
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Typically, a la carte restaurants and smaller, tasting menu eateries are two separate concepts that have different clientele, but one St. Pete wine bar and restaurant is trying its hand at both ...
There aren’t many pickers who can hold their own onstage with Billy Strings. Don’t tell that to Victor Furtado, who had a lengthy sit-in on Strings’ show in Boston last summer.
A federal judge Wednesday issued a final decision blocking part of a 2023 Florida elections law that placed new restrictions on voter-registration groups, including preventing non-U.S. citizens ...
The Biden administration’s announcement last month — that it plans to reclassify cannabis as a lower-risk substance nationwide — is being embraced as a positive development for advocates w...
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a controversial energy bill that includes repealing parts of state law about greenhouse-gas emissions and another measure that calls for ending state invest...
Oddly enough, Swedish metal outfit Amon Amarth hasn’t been in Tampa since 2019 when it opened for what turned out to not be Slayer’s farewell tour at the ol’ Gary. Cannibal Corpse—featur...
The Beaches have been riding high off of a new album Blame My Ex. Its lead single “Blame Brett” has gone viral on TikTok since its initial release in spring 2023, and the attention helped t...
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Farseek’s brand-new album Who Can Start The Fires? isn’t a full change of form, but is described as the Georgia-based rock octet’s most confident album. “The project has existed as a ve...
Polish diplomats kind of get a pass on search engines, and they have David Sugalski to thank. Known as The Polish Ambassador, the Philadelphia native dominates the search term, and offline is i...
When you get famous on “Vanderpump Rules,” your online life is bound to be spicy, and the internet has not been kind to Tom Sandoval’s band. The 41-year-old’s music—rock and roll cove...
Considering her success opening for a good chunk of Olivia Rodrigo’s ongoing, critically-acclaimed guts world tour, it’s shocking that Chappell Roan didn’t have to switch venues due to pop...
Tampa hard-rock band Jar (stylized in all caps) probably didn’t mean to write a gun safety anthem, but the title track on its new EP, Accidental Discharge, is a headbanging reminder that fire...
New Tampa Performing Arts Center is aiming to host a series of shows that imitate the idea of “MTV Unplugged,” because would it kill some of our locals to go acoustic once in a while? Multi-...
For the last 27 years, the late Scott “Pinetop” Peterson and his family have been trying to spread the word that pets shouldn’t be left in hot cars. After a pet sitter left his black lab ...
In a 2023 interview with New Noise Magazine, ska songwriter Vic Ruggiero expressed exhaustion about America’s obsession with guns. “People are afraid and it’s not because of reality—the...
https://www.cltampa.com/music/nyc-reggae-ska-band-the-slackers-play-tampa-this-weekend-17817598
Lukas Rafael Ruiz Hespanhol doesn’t even have a proper album out, but has already played Coachella and Lollapalooza on the way to earning 1.5 billion streams on Spotify alone. The 30-year-old...
Music is a powerful force. This summer in downtown Tampa, it acts as a placemaker and teacher as part of a new live music series launching at the Encore district.
In its best form, Tampa Shuffle’s Tuesday open mic is an incubator of ideas and cradle for up-and-coming local talent. This week it welcomes St. Petersburg producer Bauxmonk who makes lo-fi b...
As it approaches the band’s 30th anniversary, Thievery Corporation remains a live music staple. The D.C. outfit’s take on world music is colored with acid jazz, hip-hop and rock, and can s...
It’s hard to believe, but Dave Matthews Band has only released 10 albums in its storied 30-year career. After spending last month in Europe, the group, which was enshrined into the Rock and Ro...