4/26/13
Huzzah! Tbt*'s 2013 Ultimate Local Music Guide is here! Pick up a copy at a box near you, or click here to check it out online. Inside, you'll find shout-outs to more than 100 local bands of all genres, plus our 25 most anticipated concerts of summer, some of our favorite #tampabaylive submissions and more. And be …
Despite a seemingly one-note gimmick, Wolf-Face have in the past year become one of Tampa Bay’s most unusual, intriguing and all-out fun bands. | Listen
Heights NS is Tampa multi-instrumentalist and all-around studio wiz Philip Carre. His unconventional approach results in a gumbo of highly melodic vocals and raps. | Listen
For longtime Bradenton singer-songwriter Dean Johanesen, hitting the road away from Tampa Bay is a hard path, but one he feels passionately about. | Listen
Rec Center remains a band at the center of the Tampa music scene, with an egalitarian spirit and veteran members whose visions and voices have touched many of Tampa Bay’s most vital musical projects. | Listen
This bluegrass-jam-ukulele-soul-funk-Americana act out of Seminole Heights has had a whirlwind year since playing the Bonnaroo last June. | Listen
After studying music at NYU, Jun Bustamante came to St. Petersburg, where she’s become known for fiery, heartfelt folk music, performed with punk aggression and more than a hint of jazz. | Listen
Polyenso are a tightly knit sextet whose sonic foundations are mini pop-masterpieces shrouded in a fog of electro-acoustic mystery. | Listen
As the DJ behind the Amphitheatre’s Friday-night dubstep freakout Pound (stylized simply as "#") Nerd Rage regularly draws more than 1,000 partiers to Ybor City. | Listen
The noisy pop/post-punk quartet hails from Tampa and after the release of last year’s Children of Desire, the group is poised to be the biggest band to come from the bay area in a while. | Listen
After you check out this year's tbt* Ultimate Local Music Guide's top local bands, make sure to take a look back at the local talent we've featured in years past.
ST. PETERSBURG — Hein Jung has one of the longest arias in all of opera in Ariadne auf Naxos. "It's almost 11 minutes of ravishing coloratura, a lot of high notes, really difficult," the soprano says. "At one point I sing a high D for 16 beats — 10 beats of holding and six beats of trills."
American Idol's Randy Jackson entertained a beachside crowd Thursday before performing with MacDill vocalist Staff Sgt. Aisha Davis, the 2011 Air Mobility Command Icon winner, during a ceremony for new master sergeants at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. Davis did a rendition of America the …
TAMPA — I recently watched a documentary (by British filmmaker Tony Palmer) on Stravinsky, and it had footage of ice breaking up in the frozen Neva River in St. Petersburg, the Russian composer's childhood home. Experiencing that could have been the source of his oft-quoted remark on "the whole earth cracking" …
My first car had a tape deck. If I wanted to listen to music on my way to and from high school, I had to (A) create a mixtape of songs in my CD collection, or (B) pull out one of the few albums I actually had on cassette.
ST. PETERSBURG — Old-timey music aside, there was a resolute vaudeville charm, a retro notion of whizbang show biz, at Steve Martin's endlessly entertaining gig at a soldout Mahaffey Theater on Thursday.
If a first-year music festival draws 8,000 people to an NFL stadium in the sweltering heat of late May in Tampa, how on earth does it grow? At that point, is there really any room to get bigger?
Inthe year since we launched #tampabaylive, we've seen some really fantastic photos of live music shows. Our photo editor went through them all and picked out some favorites. Feel free to share if you see one that you took. And be sure to visit our #tampabaylive page each week to check for new photos.
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