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  1. Clearwater market brings Hispanic culture into focus
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    Sones De Mexico dancers, Josue Santos Salvador, 15 tips his hat to Alexandra Navarro, 17 during their performance at the Clearwater Hispanic Farmers market on Sunday in Clearwater.
  2. From ‘American Idol’ to ‘The Voice,’ Jeremy Rosado reps Tampa Bay
    Oct. 15• Music
    Jeremy Rosado, a Valrico resident and singer, is currently competing on NBC's 'The Voice.'
  3. Coldplay is coming to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa
    Oct. 14• Music News
    British band Coldplay is coming to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa in 2022.
  5. Concerts around Tampa Bay are getting canceled over COVID-19 demands
    Oct. 5• Music News
    The venues that put on concerts have sometimes felt like they landed in the middle of the COVID-19 debates. Audience bristle at the rules, and sometimes it is the artists who put them there.
  6. Dead & Company cancels sold-out Tampa concert
    Sep. 28• Music News
    Dead & Company, a supergroup of remaining Grateful Dead artists and John Mayer on guitar, performs in Virginia in 2018. The group was set to appear in Tampa in October but has canceled its sold-out Florida shows.
  7. R. Kelly’s fate now in jury’s hands at sex trafficking trial
    Sep. 25• Crime
    R. Kelly arrives for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial on May 9, 2008, at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago.
  8. Don’t like COVID-19 rules for a Tampa Bay show? Refunds are unlikely.
    Sep. 22• Entertainment
    Eric Clapton will perform at Amalie Arena on Sept.25. The guitarist, though vaccinated himself, has been outspoken in his complaints about COVID-19 regulations, vaccinations and touring mandates.
  9. Weezer, Twenty One Pilots, Bastille coming to Next Big Thing show in Tampa
    Sep. 17• Music News
    Weezer will headline 97X Next Big Thing on Dec. 4 at Tampa's MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre. The two-day alt-rock music festival was canceled in 2020 because of COVID-19.
  10. Is Tampa ‘jumping ship’ on Straz Center’s $25 million expansion request?
    Sep. 9• Tampa
    A planned $100 million fundraising campaign by the Straz Center for the Performing Arts hinges on a $25 million city contribution. But some Tampa officials have recently signaled their ambivalence over the size of the request.
  11. Here they go again: ABBA to release first new album in 40 years
    Sep. 3• Music News
    The members of ABBA, from left Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Foltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, announced they will release a new album in November, their first since 1981. Virtual versions of themselves will be used for a live show using technology from George Lucas’ special-effects company, Industrial Light & Magic.
  12. Tampa’s Gasparilla Music Festival will require COVID-19 vaccination or negative test
    Sep. 3• Music News
    Hip-hop icon Nas, shown here performing in Las Vegas in 2012, will be one of the headliners for the Gasparilla Music Festival.
  13. Trans-Siberian Orchestra returns to Tampa in December
    Aug. 30• Music News
    Trans-Siberian Orchestra, shown in this photo from the 2019 tour, will return to Amalie Arena in Tampa on Dec. 19.
  14. Nirvana sued by man who was nude baby on ‘Nevermind’ cover
    Aug. 27• Music News
    In this file photo, Nirvana band members Krist Novoselic, from left, Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain pose MTV Video Music Awards in 1993. A 30-year-old man who appeared nude at 4 months old in 1991 on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album is suing the band and others, alleging the image is child pornography they have profited from.
  15. Harry Styles to require vaccine or test for shows, including Tampa
    Aug. 26• Music News
    Harry Styles will bring his tour to Amalie Arena in Tampa on Oct. 10. Promoters announced on Wednesday that his upcoming Love On Tour show will not only require proof of COVID-19 vaccine or a negative test result at all his upcoming shows, and he is also implementing a mask mandate each night.
  16. Photos: Charlie Watts and the Rolling Stones in Tampa over the years
    Aug. 24• Music News
    The Rolling Stones perform at the Ice Palace in 1999. Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts. Logan Neill wrote for the Times in 1999: "Jagger's energized aerobics fed energy into his band mates. Richards, the Stones' grizzled guitarist was all smiles, as was Watts and Wood, as Jagger quickly worked the crowd into a frenzy with familiar favorites such as Respectable and You Got Me Rocking and Honky Tonk Women."
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  17. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80
    Aug. 24• Nation & World
    Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones poses for a portrait on Nov. 14, 2016, in New York. Watts' publicist, Bernard Doherty, said Watts passed away peacefully in a London hospital surrounded by his family on Tuesday, Aug. 24. He was 80.
  18. Don Everly of early rock ‘n’ roll Everly Brothers dies at 84
    Aug. 22• Music News
    FILE - Rocker Tom Petty poses with the Everly Brothers, who got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Oct. 2, 1986. From left: Phil Everly, Petty, and Don Everly. Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering rock ‘n’ roll Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock music, has died. He was 84. A family spokesperson said Everly died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
  19. Loophole lets Live Nation demand vaccine or COVID-19 test before concerts
    Aug. 20• Music News
    Attendees of Lollapalooza presented their vaccination cards for entry to the music Chicago music festival in July. Concert promoter Live Nation now says all of its concerts will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.
  20. R. Kelly sex abuse trial: Prosecutor describes R&B star as a ‘predator’
    Aug. 18• Crime
    This file photo from June 26, 2019, shows R&B singer R. Kelly arriving at the Leighton Criminal Court in Chicago for arraignment on sex-related charges. A prosecutor described sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly Wednesday, saying the long-anticipated trial now underway was “about a predator" who used his fame to entice girls, boys and young women before dominating and controlling them physically, sexually and psychologically.
  21. After years of suspicion, reckoning for R. Kelly
    Aug. 17• Music News
    FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. The R&B star gained weight and lost money while he awaits a sex-trafficking trial that starts in earnest next week, his lawyers said Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, at a court hearing. The revelations came as U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly in New York made a series of rulings to narrow down what evidence can be shown to jurors.
  22. Bike ride from Tampa Bay to Nashville supports music industry
    Aug. 12• Music
    Kevin Lilly, 40, is the co-founder of Ride for Music and will be doing a 1,411 mile bike ride from Tampa Bay to Nashville for a charity event for band road crews.
  23. Ed Sheeran to perform in Tampa for NFL season kickoff
    Aug. 6• Music News
    Sheeran will perform in a concert to kick off the NFL season opener in Florida next month.
  24. Tyler, the Creator will play Tampa’s Yuengling Center
    Aug. 3• Music News
    Tyler, the Creator performs at the Infinite Energy Arena on Saturday, February 10, 2018, in Atlanta. He will play Tampa's Yuengling Center on March 19, 2022.
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